Editing Matchlock (section)

== 20th century use ==
[[File:Tibetan Soldier at Target Practise.jpg|thumb|Tibetans with matchlock rifle (1905 painting)]]

Arabian Bedouin families continued using matchlocks well into the 20th century, and matchlocks were often passed down as family heirlooms within Bedouin families. The reliability of the matchlock made it the weapon of choice for Bedouins, who sometimes chose to convert flintlocks into matchlocks.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vincenzo Clarizia |title=Ancient Weapons of Oman. Volume 2: Firearms |date=2022 |publisher=Archaeopress Publishing Limited |isbn=9781803270333 |page=9}}</ref>

Tibetans have used matchlocks from as early as the sixteenth century until very recently.<ref name="tibetan">{{cite web |last1=La Rocca |first1=Donald J. |title=Tibetan Arms and Armor |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tbar/hd_tbar.htm |website=www.metmuseum.org |publisher=Department of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=26 August 2018}}</ref> The early 20th century explorer [[Sven Hedin]] also encountered Tibetan tribesmen on horseback armed with matchlock rifles along the Tibetan border with [[Xinjiang]]. Tibetan nomad fighters used [[arquebus]]es for warfare during the [[Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China]] as late as the second half of the 20th century—and Tibetan nomads reportedly still use matchlock rifles to hunt wolves and other predatory animals.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldstein |first1=Melvyn |title=Nomads of Western Tibet: The Survival of a Way of Life |date=1990 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0520072114}}</ref> These matchlock arquebuses typically feature a long, sharpened retractable forked stand.
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