(June 20, 2020 at 8:40 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(June 20, 2020 at 8:11 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Matchlocks had sights fer crissakes...
And they were accurate?
For a certain level of 'Accurate' yes.
You wouldn't be hitting anything standing behind you, generally, (Barring some sort of weapon failure).
But 'Accuracy over distance' was a known thing, sure.
Rifling was also a 'Known thing'. There were/are wheel locks with rifling as well as primitive breeches.
Like everything military, it all comes down to the "Cost per unit" level of finances.
Which were an especial sort of bugger in an age before industrail mass production. Why match locks were converted across to flint locks, were converted across to percussion caps when they could.
It's not that the cartridge didn't exist. (1810 is a number that comes to mind for a fellow putting something like that together.)
It's that "New fangled technology is too expensive to waste on the average foot slogger." mind set which seems to have been a round forever.
Also when every nut, bolt, rivet etc MUST be hand crafted by a skilled profesional/craft's man?
The powers that be have always been into not spending even penny's more than they thought they had too.
