Yarr..Let's talk Pirate guns

Aye. Me likes to be sendin' 'em to Davey Jones's Locker with me blunderbuss.

A shot from the tops with me Nock Volley Gun always lights thier mainsail on fire.

Yarrrrrrrr!

rc

The anti-mutiny boarding pistol... just the name tells you how it was used and by whom. I imagine that the captain, returning to the ship after going ashore for a spell, would climb aboard with this drawn and aimed at his crew so as to avoid a surprise mutinous attack by his mates.

I suspect that whatever was available was in use by the folks that weren't nearly as romantic as they are portrayed today....

In fact, down here in paradise (south florida), the southernmost mainland city, Florida City (adjacent to that bustling metropolis, Homestead....) is still pretty primitive by all accounts. It's a mostly farm worker community with a fair share of migrant and transient types. An old time homicide investigator once said that the most common weapon that he found down there, while plying his trade, was a (wait for it.....) rock or bottle, with a few sophisticates using knives or guns.... Yep, just like pirates of old (no matter how the movies show them....).

The thing is though, that any pirate ship that plied the trade very long had a lot of good period firearms looted off captured ships.
Booty, so to speak.

Including the most modern military firearms and cannon of the world at the time.

rc

The anti-mutiny boarding pistol... just the name tells you how it was used and by whom. I imagine that the captain, returning to the ship after going ashore for a spell, would climb aboard with this drawn and aimed at his crew so as to avoid a surprise mutinous attack by his mates.

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I haven't met a firearm (in proper working order) that I was afraid to fire. That one would sure make me shake a bit!

And RC, stop talking about booties. This is a family forum!!

The trusty belaying pin made for a mighty fine bludgeon, as well. Perhaps a topic for the Non-Firearms forum.

Avast, ye skurvy dogs! Stand fast and prepare to be boarded!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6xhYELYVDw


Prime and load our guns with thunder
Prime and load we'll loot and plunder
Prime and load them we'll send them under
To dance a jig with Davy Jones

-Prime and Load, The Jolly Rogers

Real pirates don't say "Arrr".

Arrr, you scurvy dog, we do so...

I believe Robert Newton single-handedly developed pirate-speak playing Long John Silver in the 1950 movie adaptation of Treasure Island.

And I'm gonna go watch it again.

Oh yeah, "Aarr Matey". Definitely.

An AK-47 and an RPG-7 for me please.

How are you planning to breach the hull with cast lead bullets? And how are you going to shoot those flint-locks once the fire hoses soak your powder?

Hmmm. I think pirate number 6 (bottom row, second from left) is actually in Soviet helicopter crew garb, possibly?

So, they hijacked a Soviet helicopter too.

You just never hear about that on CNN News!

rc

*sigh*

Just wrapped up the "Pirates Pack the Park" day yesterday at the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, VA. It was an attempt at breaking the world record for "Largest Gathering of Pirates". The previous record was 14,231 pirates in Hastings, England.

Unfortunately, though we had over 15,000 people there, not nearly enough actually dressed the part in order to be counted. Official count was 6,759.

It was a blast, though! I'm looking forward to next year's attempt!

Harrrr...

I did shoot my arrrrrrr-15 on the 19th.

......

some good guns, a good story, and a shockingly young Tommy Lee Jones:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Nate_and_Hayes/70049090?locale=en-US

I've always wanted a blunderbus hanging on the wall. That isn't strictly a pirate gun though is it?

..........Yarrrrrr!!!!

I mean...... I've always wanted a bloomin blunderbus to keep the boys in line, but me day job pays for naught and I have better uses for me gold, like payin off my bleedin student loans, and rum and wenches onn the weekends! So nay, NAY on the blunderbus!!!!!

I really would like one though. Don't know if I'd shoot it, but it sure would be a neat little piece of history.

Huh...Seems I was on the front page photo of The Virginian-Pilot's Sunday edition. I'm the guy in the white shirt and black head wrap in the background, just to the left of the lady holding the Pepsi in the foreground of the first shot in this online article:

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/09/pirates-aplenty-newport-news-no-world-record

WOOHOO!

Err...I mean HUZZAH!

A canny buccaneer be tying a long strand of silk between each brace of his pistols and wearing those strands around his neck. That way, he can drop his pistols after firing 'em, without losing 'em.

A smart pirate also be wearin' an eyepatch even if he has two good eyes, if he be part of the boardin' party and the attack be durin' the day. When ya goes below deck on a strange ship from bright sunlight, ya don't have time fer both eyes ta be adjustin' ta the dark.

Fair winds and bounteous booty to ye, mates!

Ever yr servant, etc.,

Bellamy Valentine Withstandyenot,
Capt of the Willing Mind