'English Lock' fishtail musket on Gun Broker

[Flint62Smoothie]

Note to find it, search for 'dog lock musket' as the Seller has no idea that it is not a doglock. And yes ... I tried to tell them. This one looks like it would go cheap. New they run $600 shipped from Military Heritage, so be aware of that if bidding and factor in the $85 they're asking for shipping.

English locks had the horizontal sear bar that projects through the lockplate, as carried forward from snaphaunces, whereas doglocks switched to the vertical sear bars

akin to flintlocks.

 

[Rudyard]

Ide say 'Dogs' be they hook like or sprag like can be fixed to any sort of lock of any date . The only true 'Dog lock' is the lock that has no half cock or safety other than the Dog .I've made and used them with every success . Some deride the old hammer shotguns thinking them unsafe ( There even not allowed to be imported to NZ or where. )But modern hammerless guns are carried on full cock soon as their loaded with only a pushed slideing button which can't be seen as their safety . Sort of blind faith However this irony is going a bit off post .
Regards Rudyard

 

[Pukka Bundook]

It looks quite a stretch to get your paws around that guard, Flint!
Lock looks workable though!