Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

[Color-Copycat]

This looks like some sort of steampunk submachine gun with a drum mag, but it's actually an 8-cylinder, 48-shot percussion revolver, dated 1855, made by a guy named Joseph Enouy

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Color-Copycat

This looks like some sort of steampunk submachine gun with a drum mag, but it's actually an 8-cylinder, 48-shot percussion revolver, dated 1855, made by a guy named Joseph Enouy

Must have...

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

Originally Posted by Color-Copycat

This looks like some sort of steampunk submachine gun with a drum mag, but it's actually an 8-cylinder, 48-shot percussion revolver, dated 1855, made by a guy named Joseph Enouy

Why y'all could load that girl on Sunday and shoot her the rest o' the week!

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Ephraim Ben Raphael

Why y'all could load that girl on Sunday and shoot her the rest o' the week!

Yeah, but that'd be one busy Sunday. You ever cast lead bullets? It's a pain in the ass. Took my friend and I a whole day just to cast 100 from tire weights.
Then again we had a tiny casting pot.

[Petike]

Originally Posted by Color-Copycat

This looks like some sort of steampunk submachine gun with a drum mag, but it's actually an 8-cylinder, 48-shot percussion revolver, dated 1855, made by a guy named Joseph Enouy

That looks awfully impractical. Particularly when the time comes to reload it.

[Color-Copycat]

Originally Posted by Ephraim Ben Raphael

Why y'all could load that girl on Sunday and shoot her the rest o' the week!

I think my poor fingers would be sore and numb after trying to fire all 48 rounds on that rusty old beast, cranking that big drum contraption to switch the cylinders in between shots. Also, I imagine the sheer weight of the thing would be too much for me to handle.

[Marc Pasquin]

you'd have to hold that thing machine gun style, I can't imagine someone holding that with one arm raised to take aim.

[Petike]

Originally Posted by Marc Pasquin

you'd have to hold that thing machine gun style, I can't imagine someone holding that with one arm raised to take aim.

And your hand will just burn off due to a lack of handguard.

[Color-Copycat]

You could wrap a strip of leather around that fore-grip looking piece of brass, perhaps.

Also, Orthodox battle priests.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Color-Copycat

You could wrap a strip of leather around that fore-grip looking piece of brass, perhaps.

The hot gasses coming from the chamber will still burn you.

[Marc Pasquin]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

The hot gasses coming from the chamber will still burn you.

maybe a tripod ?

[Simreeve]

Originally Posted by Marc Pasquin

maybe a tripod ?

In which case you might as well have a Puckle Gun, instead...

[Tordenskjold]

Apperantly, during the 2nd afghan war the Afghan army included a unit of "Highland Infantry", with uniforms based on the british highland regiments. Peter Hopkirk mentions them in "Setting the East Ablaze", saying the afghan amir had been so impressed with the scottish soldiers during the 1st war that he introduced these new uniforms.



http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collecti...=1955-04-39-93

[Simreeve]

Originally Posted by Tordenskjold

Apperantly, during the 2nd afghan war the Afghan army included a unit of "Highland Infantry", with uniforms based on the british highland regiments. Peter Hopkirk mentions them in "Setting the East Ablaze", saying the afghan amir had been so impressed with the scottish soldiers during the 1st war that he introduced these new uniforms.



http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collecti...=1955-04-39-93

I read a book about some of the more eccentric Indian 'princes' under British rule once, years ago and it mentioned that one prince employed a pipe band of Indians who operated in full Highland outfit... and in 'flesh-coloured' stockings, so that their legs would look more Scottish than Indian!

[theman from the ministery]

Indiana_Jones_and_the_Philosophers Stone
the title says it all

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

Originally Posted by theman from the ministery

Indiana_Jones_and_the_Philosophers Stone
the title says it all

I am at a loss for words.

[theman from the ministery]

Originally Posted by Ephraim Ben Raphael

I am at a loss for words.

how much do you wanner bet that wiki page makes a FanFic lover cry every 10 seconds

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Simreeve

I read a book about some of the more eccentric Indian 'princes' under British rule once, years ago and it mentioned that one prince employed a pipe band of Indians who operated in full Highland outfit... and in 'flesh-coloured' stockings, so that their legs would look more Scottish than Indian!

All military bands should be required to play in kilts.

[Simreeve]

There were 'Alascans' living in 16th-century England.


Okay, so if & when you check you'll find that they weren't actually anything to do with Alaska, but that does seem the obvious assumption at first glance... Right?


(During the reign of Edward VI [1547-'53] a man named Laski was 'Superintendent of foreign Christian communities', and his name was the source of this colloquial term for the members of those communities who were in fact mostly [if not all] Protestant refugees from the continent.)

[QuoProQuid]

Without the mustache.