Kilts in the English Civil Wars/War of the Three Kingdoms

[BoldHighlander]

...a few more of the Middlesex Village Trading Company Doglock Pistol in action:

[Piper]

I have one of those horse pistols myself. It's been languishing in a drawer for the last couple of years (since it's arrival), because I've drifted away from shooting much. I've got grandkids starting to request range time now, so I'm getting anxious to get it out and give it a try. Is that a live round you're firing in the picture? And if so, how was the experience (recoil, accuracy, etc)? I've dry fired mine a couple of times, and I think I've got to take some off the mainspring, or it's really going to eat flints.

[BoldHighlander]

I have one of those horse pistols myself. It's been languishing in a drawer for the last couple of years (since it's arrival), because I've drifted away from shooting much. I've got grandkids starting to request range time now, so I'm getting anxious to get it out and give it a try. Is that a live round you're firing in the picture? And if so, how was the experience (recoil, accuracy, etc)? I've dry fired mine a couple of times, and I think I've got to take some off the mainspring, or it's really going to eat flints.

Actually those were from a review done by Gordon Frye on the Middlesex Village Trading Company Doglock Pistol. He does a great job reviewing it, answers most all of your questions. Sorry for the confusion, though the chin whiskers sticking out of that helmet does bear some passing resemblence...

[Woodsheal]

Nice looking pieces! Getting back to strictly Highland weaponry, clansmen (those that could afford them) would carry these sorts of firearms (plus various sorts of imports) during the mid 1600s:

[Woodsheal]

This is the style of Dutch gun that appears in my earlier photo. Trade guns with this type of lock were exported in large numbers beginning ca. 1630. They've been dug up in N. American sites, too....

[Woodsheal]

Just recently spent a weekend at a '45 reenactment event in Ft. Erie, Ontario. Battle scenarios were held on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and both were hot days. As I've noted at similar events in the past, the belted plaid is no impediment to running, jumping, going prone, loading and firing a musket, or wielding a broadsword and targe. Nor do you drop dead from heat exhaustion from being so garbed. I don't buy these legends of "plaid shedding" before battles....

[Matt Richards]

Beautiful weapons, Woodsheal. Interesting how much of a downward hook those musket stocks have in comparison to the matchlocks.

[Woodsheal]

Beautiful weapons, Woodsheal. Interesting how much of a downward hook those musket stocks have in comparison to the matchlocks.

A buddy of mine always referred to them as the "electric guitar" muskets...!

[AndyW]

First post, but I have been lurking awhile! There were kilted highlanders in the ECW, and I am a member of a unit that portrays this in the Sealed Knot reenactment society in the UK.
We have two sets of kit, either lowland 'covenanter' troops wearing hodden grey, following the English style of britches and doublet, or Highland, wearing the great plaid as Gordons regiment.
Heres a pic of my matchlock to show off the fishtail stock:

[AndyW]

Pic from a small event a couple of weeks ago, wearing my new plaid and hose, made with wool from Harris Tweed and Knitwear