Haberdar rifles

These rifles were not handheld firearms; a prop was needed to shoot them. They were mostly used in the defence of towns and fortresses and for the signalling of danger, just as were the haberdari rifles. In appearance they were similar to rifles used in Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus. At the beginning of the 16th century they had the ‘serpentine fuse’ mechanism, considerably different from central European rifle mechanisms.