Doglock blunderbuss should arrive today.

Thanks for the info.
Craig

Your welcome. Check out their new LONG barreled fowler.

Rebel said:

Your welcome. Check out their new LONG barreled fowler.

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I did check out the Fowler and have been shooting one for months now. In fact, I rarely shoot anything else these days, it is so much fun. The 51" barrel handles better than you'd think.

To elaborate on the question about the inside of the lock: The "doglock" is just a flintlock. Aside from this lock being massive, the inside mechanism looks like any other flintlock. Except this one has no half-cock notch in the tumbler. It essentially has it's half-cock notch in the hammer itself. The dog catch engages this notch. I think it is safer than a half-cock notch...you'd probably break the hammer before the thick steel dog would let go.
Note that you have to push on the dog to engage the notch while pulling the hammer back. But it disengages by itself when the hammer is pulled on back to full-cock. You get used to it quickly.
Jack

Weird Jack said:

To elaborate on the question about the inside of the lock: The "doglock" is just a flintlock. Aside from this lock being massive, the inside mechanism looks like any other flintlock. Except this one has no half-cock notch in the tumbler. It essentially has it's half-cock notch in the hammer itself. The dog catch engages this notch. I think it is safer than a half-cock notch...you'd probably break the hammer before the thick steel dog would let go.
Note that you have to push on the dog to engage the notch while pulling the hammer back. But it disengages by itself when the hammer is pulled on back to full-cock. You get used to it quickly.
Jack

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Yes, you do. It took me about 60 seconds to figure out a "hand trick" to set the dog based off of speed shooting a trapdoor carbine. Not bad at all.

Jack is right about a dog lock using flint, it's just the evolution of they way they break down the rudamary flint using locks to the final form: Snaphace, English lock, Dog lock, Flint lock. All use flint, it's just the "Flintlock" is the zenith of the design.

Cheers,

DT

tmdreb said:

Did they say how much these locks are? I've been after them to find what it would take to get a new lock for my Bess, and haven't had a reply in a while.

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I sure hope no one takes this the wrong way. Wendy at MVT saw my post and shot me an email and got my question answered QUICK!

Looking for a range report. When you do, how 'bouts a new thread.

Ok... months later... and I got out to the range today with the Doglock for the first time!

No sights so I just held the top of the bell in the center of the chest of the police style target... It shot true... :applause:

Hours later and I'm still smiling

What a hoot to shoot.

The range I went to didn't want me to shoot BUCKSHOT at the target at 10 yards as the yahoos with 12 ga pistol grip pumps blow the manure out of the stands... :shake:

So I started out with .65 cal round balls with a loose patch on top to keep the load together...

As the day worn on... I snuck a few buck and ball loads in to her, and then a few 9 count of buck only with 80 grains of 2 F BP... I kept it all in the center of the target.

I had only one misfire when the lock was as dirty as it gets... about 18 shots into the day.

All it took was a quick wipe with a bit of wet linen on the flint face and she went boom with the next hammer fall.

I even got my 14 year old son out to the range today...(he has never shown any interest in BP..or any kind of gun until today... even he had a great time with my new Blunderbuss :winking: !)

I hope he gets the shooting bug...Please...


I have so much to share with him after 34 years of shooting... :shake: but until today... no interest.

I give this two thumps up!!!

Cheers,

DT

David,
That is great news about your son coming along to the range and having a great time shooting the blunderbuss. Keep asking him to go along.
God bless.
volatpluvia

That's great news all around.

Just when I thought I had beaten the blunderbuss bug . .

David;

How cool! I'm glad to hear that those blunderbusses are as hot as they look to be. As ny know, I now have a nice "collection" of the MVTco.'s "doglock" pistols, and every one of them is a great sparker. Funny how the Indian's can make better locks than the Italians managed to do for 30 years... :shake: Of course, they can get away with little details like cyanide for the harnening process that aren't considered kosher in the West... :grin:

Hmmm... how many of Bonnie Prince Charlie's men had blunderbusses, I might ask you... :blah:

Anyway, good going, glad that your boy is getting interested in the beast too. And now you've gotten ME interested in a blunderbuss! EEK!

Allons!

Gordon

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Hmmm... how many of Bonnie Prince Charlie's men had blunderbusses, I might ask you... :blah:

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:redface:... well, I still have my light fusil.

I'm thinking about a Scottish sailor impression for the Doglock... :winking:

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Anyway, good going, glad that your boy is getting interested in the beast too.

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he wanted to go out this weekend and shoot some of my Colt percussion pistols... but sadly the wind was blowing hard on Sat. and it was raining pretty hard today.

Light Dragoon said:

And now you've gotten ME interested in a blunderbuss! EEK!

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Hmmm... how many of Cromwell's men
had blunderbusses, I might ask you... :blah:

:winking:

Cheers,

David

P.S. Hear any feed back on my class?

D

"P.S. Hear any feed back on my class?"

Yep, we all think you have a lot of class. :grin:

WOW!! Great going David. I'm going to have to get one. Wonder how it would pattern at 10-15 yards with a few say .31 balls? I guess I'll have to buy one to see. The first 2-3 shots had to be fun :grin:

Sounds like a excellent CQC Shipboarding weapon of the 17th century :v !Thanks for posting range report.