16th Century Continuation 2
Ca. 1550:
First use of wheel lock carbines and pistols in the cavalry.
Ca. 1550:
Introduction of over under pistols with two barrels on top of each other.
Ca. 1560:
First appearance of Dutch snaphaunce locks on guns. They have an internal mechanism, forward rotating firing
steel and a movable flash pan cover.
Ca. 1560:
The so called petrinel, a firearm with a downward curving stock supported on the chest, is used mainly in the
cavalry.
Ca. 1560:
First barrels with spiral rifling are most likely produced in Nürnberg.
1564:
Prove stamps introduced in Suhl, Thüringen.
1566:
In the ‘Fronsperger Warbook’, tromblons, weapons with trumpet shaped muzzles are mentioned for the first time.
