It happened early this year. My habit is to write everything I see or feel in my past life journal, and sometimes I also write weird feelings or thoughts that could be related to my past lives, even when I am not sure of it. But from laziness, there are also times when I receive some kind of information and I don’t write it down, thinking I will remember later. When I do this, I always end up regretting it.
“We used to have this weapon that had a bigger and heavier barrel, it ends like a 'trabuco' ( short gun with a wide muzzle), but no, it's a rifle. And it's so heavy that we have to lean them on some kind of forks that are on the wooden railings of the ship, so that we can shoot them in case of a boarding by enemies. That rifle is different from the one I used to kill that man: this one was thinner, possibly longer, no wide muzzle, and of course I could handle it with my own strength.”
I didn’t give it more importance and several days went by. The images had been very neat, with that special texture memories have, and they hadn’t become blurred as quickly happens with dreams. As I always recommend people to try and validate their memories whenever is possible, I eventually decided to follow the same advice... and when I started to research I found much more than I expected.
I soon found out that this type of rifles was called “Blunderbuss”. I found a photograph that looked quite similar to what I had seen. The caption said:
“English Flintlock Blunderbuss
18th Century
This weapon took a heavy charge of powder (about four drams) and a half pint of nails, glass or coarse shot. During the Revolutionary War, Blunderbusses were used on British, French, and American warships for repelling boarders. They were made solely for defense at close quarters.”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_flintlock_blunderbuss.jpeg
“The blunderbuss is a muzzle-loading firearm with a short, large caliber barrel, which is flared at the muzzle and frequently throughout the entire bore, and used with shot and other projectiles of relevant quantity or caliber. The blunderbuss could be considered to be an early form of shotgun, which was often adapted to military and defensive use. It was effective at short ranges, but lacked accuracy for targets at long range. [...]
The blunderbuss could be considered an early shotgun, and served in similar roles. While various old accounts often list the blunderbuss as being loaded with various scrap iron, rocks, limbs, or wood, this would result in damage to the bore of the gun; it was typically loaded with a number of lead balls smaller than the bore diameter. Barrels were made of steel or brass. [...]
Blunderbusses were also commonly carried by officers on naval warships, privateers and by pirates for use in close-quarters boarding actions.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunderbuss
However, what I saw was more similar to the rifle in the bottom of this photograph (dated on 1800), or perhaps the one in the middle (dated between 1700 and 1800, which would perfectly fit with my era). The one in the upper part is what I have always called a “trabuco”. I had no idea that they also existed with a much longer barrel.
“Nobody knows for sure who first put guns on ships. It might have been the English at the battle of Sluys in 1340. Those two great maritime republics, Genoa and Venice, certainly had small cannon on their warships thirty years later.
The guns they used were breech-loaders made up of iron strips and hoops. Solid cannon were too heavy for the ships of those days. This meant that naval guns could fire little more than 1 lb shot. The cannon were mounted on wooden blocks and lay on the deck. Smaller guns were mounted on forks along the ship’s railing. A small swivel-gun could even be mounted on top of the mast in the crow’s nest.”
http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/30246/ ... ire-power/
So I can say my memory is verified... with the exception of the name Carrington. So far I haven’t found anything, so if any reader wants to collaborate and knows something about it, please leave me a comment.
For someone who doesn’t remember past lies, this will look like a triviality. Real reincarnationists do understand the satisfaction you feel when you validate these small memories.