45-110...never say never, rarely is probably correct.
Keep asking questions, Smokey, and don't feel so bad about it.
Unless there's a bloke who personally stood on the back of a wagon and inventoried every accoutrements used at a particular date we have no business arbitrarily stating what "They" had or did not have because wood, leather, cork and textiles have a habit of not surviving over the years during the pre-industrial era.
The best we can do is to use natural materials and tools if we are going off into conjecture, and don't use any more conjecture than is reasonable. I find myself more grateful that we even have re-enactors for a culture hungry public than whether or not their buttons are PC, HC or P/AH ( Posture/Attention Hungry)
I always thought that the reason starters are hard to find in the early eighteenth century was because rifles were hard to find in the early eighteenth century. On the other hand, some yob out in the boonies only needed an auger and a chunk of wood to figure it out before he faded into obscurity and his stuff rotted away.
I betcha if more people could write, more stuff would have been documented. Lacking that, I learned long ago that research is never finished and I'll place a greater value on the guy who asks questions over the guy who stakes himself in the ground over one source every time.
If I run into you somewhere, coffee's on me.
