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Default Re: This or That? - 29-11-2004

nope. If I'd meant flintlock (or more specifically, doglock) I'd have said it. I mean matchlock - a precurser to the flint lock, used a piece of burning slow match to ignite the priming powder rather than sparks from a flint and steel.

A matchlock musket - note the rope-like match, made from a natural plaited cord soaked in saltpetre
  
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