Scratching My Head

[Walkabout]

The description says "percussion", but it's clearly a flintlock. Know anything about it? Thanks
https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...ion-56-percussion-musket.cfm?gun_id=101606041

 

[Thagomizer]

The owners description is basically accurate aside. From the wrong ignition system.

 

[Sam squanch]

This seller gets his firearms terms mixed up. But he has some great deals…..

 

[Hermit Tim]

Lots of folks that aren't serious BP guys just don't know the difference. I see lots of cap guns on GB the seller calls a flintlock. They're not stupid; they just don't know because it ain't their "thing".

 

[chorizo]

Just watch out when you buy one from him. He packs them poorly. Ask for extra packing and to wrap each individual part separately if he takes it apart to ship.

He simply tossed a loose barrel and loose stock into a box, added a few wads of newspaper and shipped a very nicely stocked Ardesa to me. When it arrive the stock was trashed from the barrel bouncing around loose.

When I spoke to him about it, he said call the shipping company. Really ruined a nicely finished gun.

 

[nit wit]

That is big money for a poor quality flintlock, they usually don't spark well.
Nit Wit

 

[andy52]

That is the first time I've ever seen a back action flinter. By the time the back action lock was in circulation most of them were caplocks.

 

[Sam squanch]

These are African trade guns, made from leftover parts for cheap sale. A lot made it over here for the bi centennial as decoration.

 

[hawkeye2]

Sam is right, African trade musket. In no way authentic and overpriced. The only thing going for it is its condition.

 

[Sam squanch]

Offer him $400..

 

[Sam squanch]

An awful lot of posts lately about me being RIGHT….. I’ll print them all out and show them to my wife!

 

[Loyalist Dave]

These are African trade guns, made from leftover parts for cheap sale. A lot made it over here for the bi centennial as decoration.

As a matter of fact I had a percussion version of the same gun in the late 1970's. The flint ones were notoriously poor sparkers. Needed hardening and sometimes carbon added to the frizzen. $695? The seller must have gotten hold of some that Khat stuff from Africa to go with his African trade gun. More like $200......

LD

 

[rickystl]

I bought one of these new in about 1964 for $35.00 as I recall. It was one of the later ones (then) with the two-piece lock and coil mainspring. Shot it often as a 14 year old. But the frizzen will need hardened and possibly frizzen spring reduction. This looks like the better one with the one-piece lock plate and (I think) long, flat mainspring. It is likely a two-piece stock joined at the rear barrel band. This one appears in new condition, and probably never fired. BUT, still not $700.00. These show up on auction sites used for $300-400.00 range.

Rick

 

[Sam squanch]

Update- checked with my spouse. I’m still WRONG…..