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Pedersoli Rocky Mountain Hawken
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You want to change the lock or you want to change the gun so it can use a flintlock?
Anything can be done but the amount of work it would take to change a percussion lock into a flint lock would not be easy.
It would need a pan for the prime, a frizzen/pan cover and the screw to hold it in the right place and a frizzen spring (feather spring) to control the position of the frizzen. The cock and cock jaw might be fairly easy to find. Dixie Gun Works used to carry them but I don't know if they still have them.
Anything can be done but the amount of work it would take to change a percussion lock into a flint lock would not be easy.
It would need a pan for the prime, a frizzen/pan cover and the screw to hold it in the right place and a frizzen spring (feather spring) to control the position of the frizzen. The cock and cock jaw might be fairly easy to find. Dixie Gun Works used to carry them but I don't know if they still have them.
Woody Morgan
62 Cal.
Not to mention properly drilling and tapping for a flash hole in the side of the barrel at the pan location.
Buy a proper flintlock if you want one.
wm
Buy a proper flintlock if you want one.
wm
I have a RMH and I would not try to convert it to Flintlock. If you were asking about a gun that had a drum and nipple setup like a Pedersoli Frontier rifle, then the conversion, in theory, is not too difficult and again, in theory, you can just purchase a flint lock that matches the current percussion lock in shape and plunk it in after removing the drum and putting in a touch hole liner. But when you have a breech with a snail setup it would be much more difficult to convert. Like Zonie said, anything is possible but sometimes probably not worth it.
