Hello everyone, I am new here. But I have a few questions. I am a Living historian and an armature gunsmith. I have recently been thinking about making a doglock musket for myself. However, most Living History events require doglocks to have an internal halfcock. Does anyone know how I may achieve this, thanks.
All the dog lock’s I’ve assembled from the rifle shoppe have a half cock notch with the exception of 2 of them which are much earlier patterns with a lateral sear.
Furthermore, all the original dog lock’s I’ve reviewed all had half cock notches.
Indian made Dog Locks often do not have a halfcock notch, at leas the few I’ve seen did not.
I would just go with a rifle shoppe Cookson or AR dog lock kit, these are pretty good quality locks. The queen Ann dog lock musket I’ve never seen.
The reason for the dog catch was because they didn’t trust hate quality of their steel parts. The mainsprings were excessively strong and would wear down the tumblers.
The early sea service locks were essentially dog lock’s without internal bridles and catches, with the difference being the quality of the steel parts.
There are a lot of things you can do to add a halfcock notch, The easiest way is to TIG weld on some steel and shape it to a half cock notch.
I’ve assembled several rifle shoppe dog locks, the queen Ann, Cookson, WR and AR all have half cock nothes, I’d look no further than with the rifle shoppe
