Have A Look At This :

[PauDee]

It is a short film of my Tanegashima in action .

 

https://vimeo.com/174040946 

 

Never knew it was this fast .

 

Paulus .

[Bugyotsuji]

Great shot, Paulus!   Blank or with ball?  

[k morita]

Hi,

 

Thanks Paulus.

 

[estcrh]

It is a short film of my Tanegashima in action .

 

https://vimeo.com/174040946 

 

Never knew it was this fast .

 

Paulus .

Nice progressive views.

 

[Stephen]

Complete novice on this, how does the cord keep feeding forward, pulling with fingers?

[PauDee]

This was a shot with patch and ball , and I was amaised how fast it was .

 

If you look at the second image of Sai Jo Saku it looks like the slowmatch is making an arch towards the primer .

 

I want to shoot it at the World championships in Hungaria .

[IanB]

Paul, People do not realise just how efficient early ignition systems were. I have fired matchlock, wheel lock, flintlock and percussion cap guns and they are all pretty fast, with probably the flintlock having the longest delay. 

Ian Bottomley

[Stephen]

guess the question was too novice 

[PauDee]

In my experiance air temparture is of influence , at 25 degrees C it is just as fast  as percussion if the tempartures go higher it gets scarry , some times I wondred if I had pulled the trigger at al ,

if tempartures drop below frezingpoint it is a fraction slower .

 

Paulus .

[Brian]

Stephen, the match is extremely slow burning, so not needed to re-position it for quite a while. Yes, it is manually moved.

[Bazza]

Paulus, I LOVE IT - and the background drum and reloading activity too.  Thanks for putting it up.  Looks like a really good day.  There is one day a year here in Victoria, Australia, where people dress up in period costume and fire cannon and mortars http://www.95thriflesaustralia.com/events/taminick

 

Best regards,

BaZZa.