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I was messing about on the Internet a few nights ago, got onto wikipedia to see what they had to say. Their article on 'gunpowder' was written by somebody who knows how to read a book but definitely is NOT a shooter, does not fully understand the difference between pyrotechnics and propellants.
But at the bottom of the article was a link to another website (spelled wrong, mind you).

The second website is from Switzerland and the guy who runs it REALLY knows his stuff. I would class him as a very competent historian (my own specialty) and he is a retired industrial chemist. He pretty much demolishes the wiki article, WITH proofs.

He MAKES his own 14th Century 'gonnes' AND shoots them! Live-fire demo on his site!!!!!!!

He is called Ulrich Bretscher and his site is www.musketeer.ch.

DON'T miss it!!!
 
"...written by somebody who..." Wikipedia is like that.
"...MAKES his own 14th Century 'gonnes'..." There are several guys making early firearms Stateside. Mine is a .50 cal copy of the circa 1450 one found on the bottom of the Baltic. Cost me $125US, as I recall. Not recently.
"...I'd have thought..." BP is a low grade explosive. Making explosives is illegal and extremely dangerous. Ulrich Bretscher is a chemical engineer and doesn't live in Canada.
 
I'd say that Ulrich is a pretty lucky guy, wouldn't you?

Just don't get caught forking over the manure-pile at your uncle's farm!

For a good read, try "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen" by H. Beam Piper. Piper was one of us and knew his stuff. His first published book was "Murder in the Gunroom". Great writer, tragic figure.
 
smellie said:
I'd say that Ulrich is a pretty lucky guy, wouldn't you?

Just don't get caught forking over the manure-pile at your uncle's farm!

For a good read, try "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen" by H. Beam Piper. Piper was one of us and knew his stuff. His first published book was "Murder in the Gunroom". Great writer, tragic figure.
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yes H. Beam Piper, I have several of his books. Good reading, too bad he stuck his head in an oven and killed himself, :( his books were only published after his death.
 
Yes, too bad about Piper: a real talent, and so unappreciated while he was with us.
Truly awful thing is that the cheque actually WAS in the mail for once. If he had gone to the post office instead of killing himself, he would have found the cheque waiting for "Lord Kalvan".
As has been mantioned, a lot of his best stuff was published only after his death.
Anybody besides me ever read "Uller Uprising"?

Only thing I can see wrong with moving to Switzerland is all that damn yodelling. I worked once with a Swiss butcher who hated everyone equally because of World War II (he had been in the mountain troops, guarding the Swiss border from being invaded by ANYBODY; he was still p8ssed at the Americans because of the 'accidental' bombing of Scahffhausen)..... and he YODELLED constantly!

OFF-KEY at that!!!!!!!!!!

I very nearly didn't make my 22nd birthday! The Oberscharfuhrer in the Cold Kitchen managed to keep me sane.... more or less. Crazy times.
 
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