Conversion to flint

[Lbrown]

I have a Pedersoli Harpers Ferry 1805 percussion that I would like to convert to flint, assuming I can find a lock. Does anyone know if the existing barrel can be used without permanent modifications? I'd like to be able to switch back and forth.

 

[87TT]

I converted an old Kentucky. I took out the drum and found a bolt that matched the threads and made a vent hole liner. I suppose if you could make the vent liner removable, it could be reversed. The lock I got was from Dixie Gun Works and dropped right in. Not bad since I bought the pistol in 1969 and wasn't even sure it was a Pedersoki as it had no markings.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Pedersoli, on their website, refers to the percussion Harper's Ferry Pistol as the conversion model. It would seem that removal of the drum and replacing it with a correctly threaded touch hole liner and flint lock would convert it to flint.

Harper's Ferry Pistols (davide-pedersoli.com)

 

[87TT]

The drum on mine was a metric thread so maybe Pedersoli has one but I couldn't find one so I made one from a bolt I got at Napa. I cut it off after installing it and filed it flush. I could remove it and convert it back but would have to drill it and use an easy out.

 

[Griz44Mag]

IIRC - the standard Pedersoli liner is a 8 X 1.25 (metric)
I have converted (2) Pedersoli rifles from cap to flint using Pedersoli locks and OX-YOKE liners (I like the hex drive on them).
Very easy to do - one of them required a little bit of fitting, the other was a direct drop in.
Enjoy!