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    Pied de Vache Early French military musket

    I do not have one for it, but it would have been a wooden one.
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    Unknown short French model 1777 an IX

    This is a little bit of an odd ball due to its length. It is a French model 1777 an IX. The stock and barrel have the RF stamp on the plug in the side of the stock and on the side of the barrel beside the touch hole as is normal for the 1777/an IX. The plug started being put in the side of the...
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    Pied de Vache Early French military musket

    I think that the stock is original from the late 1600s to early 1700s but the resources I know in this era are few. If you could provide reference to other works on this I would most appreciate it. The resources that my friend provided for me show several of the prototypes for the 1717 and a...
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    Pied de Vache Early French military musket

    Yes, the R.C is on the lock. Sorry, it is so shiny it is hard to get a detailed picture.
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    Pied de Vache Early French military musket

    Well when you consider that Robert Carrier was one of the gunsmiths that offered prototypes for the creation of the 1717 then it becomes easier to rationalize why some features stayed around longer then it may have been previously realized. I am sure your knowledge of French muskets is more than...
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    Pied de Vache Early French military musket

    I realize that the pictures are rather poor but it was hard to get good pictures of the angle of the stock given the length of the gun. It is the correct cows foot with the fatter butt stock before the butt plate. It has a cut in comb like later French muskets. It is neat like you point out to...
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    Pied de Vache Early French military musket

    Yes the hardware is all steel, just poorly cleaned :-(. There is very minimal shrinkage around the lock and virtually none elsewhere on it. I suspect since it is such an unusual early flintlock that a museum took care of it a good portion of its existance. it was of course at some point used as...
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    Pied de Vache Early French military musket

    I am new to the forum so I am posting some of my interesting guns. This musket is made before the first French standard musket model 1717. It was made by Robert Carrier of the St Etienne arsenal some time between about 1690 and 1710 when they started making the lock profile flat instead of the...
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    my wheellock with accessories

    photobucket link to wheellock pictures I know it is probably a bit ridiculous but how often do you really see a wheellock cased? I made the case and found the accoutrements to go with it. Judging by the lock it is a later wheellock probably made in the 1660s with a much earlier barrel, dated...
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