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Just how common were flintlock pistols? 2017-09-02 05:54:17 Post No. 35049355
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Just how common were flintlock pistols? 2017-09-02 05:54:17 Post No. 35049355
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When did officers and enlisted soldiers start carrying standard issue pistols? Who used them before that?
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The concept of 'standard issue' for officer sidearms didn't really exist before WW1 (lots of officer bought and brought their personal guns), so with thst I think that you will find easy to understand why there's no real general answer for your question
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>>35049355
Very uncommon. A sword was more common for officers. And for the average frontiersmen if you could afford a gun you bought a rifle not a pistol.
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Duelists, highwaymen and pirates
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Cavalry had largely switched form lance to matchlock pistol in the 16th century. I'm not sure when they then switched to flintlocks, probably early 18th century or so, but odds are you'd see significant variation there. The question of to what degree these were standard issue also depend son when the army you're looking at started using standard issue gear, Sweden had gone that way in the second half of the 17th century, many other armies were considerably later in standardising.
I don't think infantry ever really carried flintlock pistols.
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>>35049471
feeny?
THE captain feeny?!?
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>>35049488
Great movie
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>>35049486
> Dragoon regiments were established in most European armies during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
> The name is derived from a type of firearm, called a "dragon", which was a handgun version of a blunderbuss, carried by dragoons of the French Army.
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>>35049519
They also fought on foot, so their status as cavalry is a bit in the grey.
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>>35049644
In theory, dragoons, scouts, hussars were issued pistols but more often than not there weren't enough of them to go around.
> The rest of the weapons equipping the Éclaireurs were the standard Chasseur a Cheval model Year XIII cavalry pistols and model Year IX light cavalry sabre.
> Due to general lack of equipment only the 3rd regiment was able to obtain shabraques, with only officers being so equipped in the 1st and 2nd regiments.
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>>35049355
Generally not as common in the army, but officers in the navy would have them
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