Kilt or celtic weaponry...

[michael steinrok]

My best sword is an Irish Hand and a half that is battle ready. Would like to get a nice baskethilt claymore some day. Too busy buying kilts, and toy soldiers with kilts and little itty bitty claymores for the soldiers.

[billmcc]

David White,

I really like the dirk in your picture! Is it a custom blade?

[cormacmacguardhe]

All I have right now is a battle axe. Working on making my own targe.

[David White]

David White,

I really like the dirk in your picture! Is it a custom blade?

Yes it is, The dirk was made by Michael "Tinker" Pearce.
Thanks

[macwilkin]

The Tartans Authority has a nice article about the Targe here:

http://www.tartansauthority.com/Web/...s/Weaponry.asp

Happy Reading! :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd

[Woodsheal]

The Tartans Authority has a nice article about the Targe here:

http://www.tartansauthority.com/Web/...s/Weaponry.asp

This is a good article, especially in regards to the impossibility of wielding a dirk in the left hand while wearing a targe on that arm, too!

However, it is folly to think that a targe could stop a musket ball! This notion is shared by many reenactors with no experience actually shooting muskets with live ammunition. Well, I've owned and shot and hunted with flintlock weapons for years, and I can tell you this: at 18th C. combat ranges (100 yds or less) a ball from .75 or .69 cal infantry musket will go right through a targe, the wearer's arm, and halfway through his body before it slows down...!

[David White]

I read an artical once about a guy that set up a "targe" and shot at it
from different ranges with his Brown Bess, all rounds passed right through!

[bubba]

Those old smoothbores might not have been great for accuracy but anything they hit is gonna be in bad shape. Alot more hitting power than people think.

[Iolaus]

Those old smoothbores might not have been great for accuracy but anything they hit is gonna be in bad shape. Alot more hitting power than people think.

Yeah, those old balls were generally a lot bigger than anything you'll see in the civilian market today! Some were, what, .75 caliber or larger? (For the non-gunners, that's 3/4 of an inch.)

[Colin]

.....and the original question was:

What kind do you have? or would like to get?

let's keep the topic to Celtic, Scottish, or Irish weaponry that people have in their collection. If you have an old flint lock pistol in your collection, great, but let's leave it at that.