I am working out my plans for the cording on our priming flasks right now (see my post later today for more images). I think we're going to go forward with our shot bags attached to our bandoleers, simply because that makes the most sense, can be documented within 100 year - God, I *hate* the span there - and is a good way of dealing with the fact that so many of the images *don't* show any shot pouch. It's not like they were all firing blanks!
Right….?
Perhaps we could chalk up the “missing” bags to the idea that artists may have simply overlooked or oversimplified them (like they did on the rigs for the cartridges so often). Guns were still a newish thing at this point, so someone drawing a gunner may have just not recognized or detailed out their pouch…which is actually an argument for making it small and integrated into the overall rig...
On the other hand, we could put a pouch on the back of our priming flasks like there are in the bildindex image I have in my original post: However, the thought of wearing a modified claymore mine on my hip isn't really that appealing to me. *chuckle*
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Re: Black Powder images! YAY
Date: 2009-03-10 03:36 pm (UTC)Right….?
Perhaps we could chalk up the “missing” bags to the idea that artists may have simply overlooked or oversimplified them (like they did on the rigs for the cartridges so often). Guns were still a newish thing at this point, so someone drawing a gunner may have just not recognized or detailed out their pouch…which is actually an argument for making it small and integrated into the overall rig...
On the other hand, we could put a pouch on the back of our priming flasks like there are in the bildindex image I have in my original post: However, the thought of wearing a modified claymore mine on my hip isn't really that appealing to me. *chuckle*