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.50 caliber
from my small amount of research they are basically the same. are there any main differences?
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main differences of flintlock and snaplock?
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Do you mean ‘snaphaunce’, a lock type that preceded the French style flintlock?
As a snaplock was a matchlock arm where tinder or matchord in the serpentine ‘snapped’ forward or rearward to ignite the priming powder in the pan.
In this post here, in reply #20 there is info about the snaphaunce:
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...ey-black-powder-arms-and-advancements.157854/
Here is a post about a 1500s snaplock:
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...-matchlock-carbine.144584/page-4#post-2258778
As a snaplock was a matchlock arm where tinder or matchord in the serpentine ‘snapped’ forward or rearward to ignite the priming powder in the pan.
In this post here, in reply #20 there is info about the snaphaunce:
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...ey-black-powder-arms-and-advancements.157854/
Here is a post about a 1500s snaplock:
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...-matchlock-carbine.144584/page-4#post-2258778
Boy there’s lots hokey pokey here!
That translates to BS!
The snaphaunce had a detached pan cover. We call the steel sparking piece a frizzen, but the old name was steel or battery.
There is a bar, either internal or external that moved the pan cover at the same time the cock/ hammer was in motion the steel stayed still till hit with the flint.
Making the battery/ steel one piece was a Spanish invention. They used one great spring externally mounted to act as frizzen spring and cock/ hammer spring. The French made the true flintlock with internal operation, a steel/pan cover in one L shaped piece and external frizzen spring.
The Scots and English made the dog lock that was similar to French lock except for external half cock that would hold the cock/hammer open until full cock. This was short lived and soon replaced by English adoption of French flintlock‘s
Leonardo drew a Wheelock about 1497, and a snaphaunce about 1503, both may have been Italian inventions. True French flintlock dates to about 1650.
As late as 1750 a snaphaunce rifle was a prize Army an American shooting contest. But, it maybe that the gun had a true flintlock but the people in the area were still using the old name
