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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Mass and HP gained from mass of the barrel and stock shouldn't figure into attacks on the lock.
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Yes obviously having a lighter mechanism will impact attacks against the lock. That's not how I'd read "lower HP" though.
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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
More important than ho0w that technology developed is that it did develop and flintlocks replacing wheel-locks was an example of a superior technology replacing an inferior one.
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That it did develop is completely unimportant. Again, not a historical setting. And the message that wheellocks have unrepresented fragility has
been received. A change in how technology develops would thus obviously mean a difference in the wheellock mechanism.