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Author Topic: Lets see those period arms.  (Read 423 times)

Offline mario

Re: Lets see those period arms.
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2014, 09:55:34 PM »
Quote from: "ntxyankee"
Anyone have pictures of "Jaeger" style rifles or any info about them? If i misspelled the name please correct me.

What do you want to know? Not my field of study, but I may be able to point you in the right direction.

Mario
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Offline ntxyankee

Re: Lets see those period arms.
« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2014, 07:57:13 PM »
I would like to know anything you can tell me and I would appreciate knowing in which direction to start my research? I know nothing about them but have heard a few things.

Supposedly they were rifled instead of smooth bored muskets and were they were used by the Hessian troops of the British. I have also been told they were very decorative.

Is there anyone making them now?
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Tommy Bruce

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Re: Lets see those period arms.
« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2014, 08:47:35 AM »
Some Jaeger rifles were very ornate, but it is my understanding that the ones for military use that came over during the Revolutionary War were less so.  They were rifled guns, carried by Jaeger troops.  Most German mercenaries (not all were Hessians) carried smoothbore muskets.  I have handled an original in .54 cal and I was amazed at how well they were balanced.  I have a Davis early Germanic lock sitting on the work bench and I think one of these guns is on my to-do list.  

Here is a link to a contemporary piece built by Mike Brooks.

militarygun5
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