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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Historical Artifacts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Ornate flintlock gun with heart-shaped muzzle, Germany, ~1765 AD

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Ornate flintlock gun with heart-shaped muzzle, Germany, ~1765 AD

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Historical Artifacts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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    Neat looking… But a pita to make and makes the seal between mini-ball + barrel worse, leaving you with more blow-by and less muzzle power.

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      I’d pretty much guarantee this is just a decoration on the tip. You can see the seam where it attaches to the regular shaped barrel. It just shoots through the slightly larger attachment like a silencer or muzzlebrake.

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      it shot heart shaped bullets, obv

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        I wonder if anyone ever tried to develop rifling with irregularly shaped bullets

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          Whitworth rifle is the only one with a non round rifled bore that I know of.

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          Rifling being the grooves inside the barrel that make the bullet spin, I’m thinking not. I can’t imagine anything but a cylinder working.

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            I thought maybe if you had a shaped barrel and then just twisted it, you could spiral a bullet without cutting groves. Not sure if you’d ever find that easier than conventional rifling but people have tried wackier shit

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      You wouldn’t want to kill someone with your heart pistol.

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        What if you shoot them in the heart?

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          Well then you’d obviously be to blame.

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            You give love a bad name.

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      Fill it with rat shot and blow off someone’s hand

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      Only if the entire barrel is that shape; perhaps it’s only the tip for the aesthetics? That would also make manufacturing easier.

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    Cupid just levelled up

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    Love you to death

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      Kill em with kindness

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    This is how you get out of that heart shaped box.

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    “We send our love” 💥💖💥 -nobody

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    https://www.rct.uk/collection/61100/flintlock-sporting-rifle-pirschbuumlchse

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