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    Tuning a Miquelet lock

    How does one get good sparks from a Miquelet? Should the springs be balanced like a flintlock - about 3 times as much force to cock as to flip the frizzen? I've read that they were meant to use pyrites but that flint works as well. Since pyrite is practically unobtanium, will ferrocerium work...
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    Pistol Stock Carving

    Has anyone seen a pistol stock fore-end carved like this? There is a raised bead along the ramrod groove, which is often seen, but this one continues right to the end and turns up to reach the barrel channel. It would strengthen the fragile end without using a separate cap. This one is on a...
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    Wogdon's bent barrels

    In the 1780s Robert Wogdon became famous for his duelling pistols. He was one of the few gunmakers of the day who retired wealthy. There are widely varying opinions about just what his success was due to, but all agree that his bent barrels had something to do with it. Pistols of the day had...
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    Hand gonnes

    For those interested in handgonnes, the Spring 2007 Park Lane Arms Fair "catalog" (more like an auction catalog or a book - high quality printing) has an excellent article on 'em. Good photos, dimensioned drawings, text with bibliography... They can be had from Alan Cook Link
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    Wheellock calibers

    One of those "duh - oh" moments occured a while back... The flintlock has the tumbler behind the breech, since the cock goes forward into the pan, but a wheellock has the "tumbler" directly under the touch hole. No wonder they typically are small caliber?? Anyone have pics of a large caliber...
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    Little Wheelie

    Robin's little wheellock arrived today - thanks, Claypipe. Here are some photos to hopefully get some discussion going. An overall view with a pencil for scale - it's a teenie one, all right. A view of the inside A bottom view showing the messed up pan cover arm return spring - someone...
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    French flintlock

    Got another wreck to fix up - actually I don't have it yet, my wife has sequestered it until Christmas :( It's French (I think) so I'm looking for resources / reference material to learn about it. Here's a photo of the name on the lock There's a "Stockel" for French weapons, and I'm...
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    Snaphaunce wierdness

    Here's a photo of an Italian snaphaunce with two sears. The reason for two sears is that it evolved from the wheellock mechanism, and that's how it was done. What I call "Sear 1" in the photo has a rounded nose so it will not stay engaged with the tumbler. The main spring will just pop it...
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    Georgian Pistols

    Norman Dixon wrote a book, published in 1971, called Georgian Pistols. It is the very best reference work on these guns, and probably one of the best arms books ever. Anyone interested in British pistols made between 1715 and 1840 should have a copy. I checked on the current price this...
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    Sparks

    Too late for the 4th, but here are some spark photos. Italian snaphaunce Alley dueller Deop Madrid Lock
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    Wheellock pistol design

    In Neal's "Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740", there are photos of a wheellock pistol (inside and out) that has the pyrite coming at the wheel horizontally, from the front. Apparently this was done because it was a double barrel, over/under, and the maker wanted to keep the overall height down...
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    Load life in turnoff barrel

    The turn-off barrel pistol, like the boxlocks or the Queen Anne, had a darn good seal in the barrel since the ball would be compressed a bit when the barrel was screwed back on after loading. On a boxlock or a classic Queen Anne (integral-breech lock), there is no seam between lockplate and...
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    Eye candy - a Wogdon double barrel flinter.

    Just a shot of a purty thing. It has coned gold touch holes - pic on the flintlock forum.
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    Gold vent liner - coned

    Here's a gold vent liner that's been opened up inside - essentially coned - so all but the last 1/16 inch or so is about 1/4 inch diameter. Seems like the gold wouldn't last long. Has anyone else seen one like this? This is on a Wogdon pistol, and I'm wondering if it's another of his...
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    Durs Egg Ferguson

    The Ferguson - a reprise. Here's a photo of the lock of the Ferguson by Durs Egg (from "Royal Sporting Guns at Windsor" by H.L. Blackmore). Does anyone know how the safety worked? There is a hole visible in the face of the frizzen, and a corresponding hole in the flash guard where apparently...
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    Rust removal

    Has anyone tried this stuff? http://www.evapo-rust.com/AboutEvapo-Rust.html Kind of a lame site - the only place I found any info was under MSDS, where there's a tech data sheet. Sounds like it might be real useful in the muzzle loader area.
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    Oval touch hole liner

    This showed up on a flint pistol I got recently - I've never seen the like. The touch hole liner, which is gold, is oval instead of round. Anyone seen one before? Perceived advantage?
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    Purdey fly

    Here are some great (big) photos of a Purdey Howdah pistol (same as posted on another thread) http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/mlexperiments/antique_guns/purdey_howdah/howdah.html To me, it looks like the fly is pivoted on the tumbler axis. Anyone agree? Was this common?
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    Bow chaser

    I found a photo of my 1 1/16 bore being used as a bow chaser on San Francisco Bay in the 70's. In the middle of the left side of the photo, that's the bowsprit. Bay Bridge (not the Golden Gate) in the background.
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    Cap guard/retainer

    An article in the current issue of "Man At Arms" brought to my attention the fact that I own one of these things, so now I'm interested. It seems that in the early days of percussion there were lots of folks trying to be numero uno at supplying percussion caps, and consequently there were...
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