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  1. M

    Spanish Miquelet De Erraduras

    Nice fowling piece. IMO, the lock, although somewhat butchered by some long ago hack, is a tres modas miquelet entirely correct for the time and place for that piece. As Dave has pointed out, the frizzen spring is not right, looks to be a back yard mechanic fix. The top jaw screw looks like a...
  2. M

    Dixie Gun works Poor Boy Rifle

    I forgot to mention in my remarks earlier that I too found the barrel to be too long. So I shortened it by 8 inches. Just super handling now.
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    Dixie Gun works Poor Boy Rifle

    The Tenn Mountain Rifle from Dixie, circa 1980, was a plain jane, but oh boy, was it ever what Stumpkiller said, a tack driver. Got mine in kit form, Japanese made as I recall. I liked it so well, I got both the flinter and percussion locks for it (and the nipple drum, of course). Mine was a...
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    Spanish?

    BrianL, My first and last glance at this lock tells me it is without a doubt a percussion miquelet lock. Those half cock/full cock sears protruding through the lockplate make it a miquelet lock. The pattern is from the Madrid lock or ala moda originating from the early 1700's of the influences...
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    Spanish muskets and pistols?

    Armchair Gunner, there are several images on miquelet pistols in Spanish Military Weapons in Colonial America 1700-1821 by Brinckerhoff & Chamberlain. It is good for muskets as well.
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    English Fowling Piece with Spanish Barrel

    I forgot to add a pic of the marks attributed to E. Pous from Lavin's book. Here it is.
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    English Fowling Piece with Spanish Barrel

    Capt Jas, the following is what Lavin in his A History of Spanish Firearms has to offer on Eudal Pous: "A Ripoll gunsmith who moved to Madrid and became armourer of the Royal Corps of Body Guards of Fernado VII. A military carbine with a sliding-primer fulminate lock dated 1817 by Pous is in the...
  8. M

    English Locks

    Wulf, I thought the articles were well done. I certainly learned a few things, er, well, actually a lot of things about the English Lock.
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    English Locks

    While looking for something else, lock-wise, I came upon these articles. For those two or three who may have not seen these articles, here you go. Enjoy http://www.delabrooke.com/Classicsnaphance.pdf http://www.delabrooke.com/Type1EnglishLock.pdf http://www.delabrooke.com/Type2EnglishLock.pdf
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    what kind of pistol i have?

    Dave is right on the money. It is Balkan, Montenegro, most likely the Boka Kotorska area. The locals called the pistol ledencia, literally "icicle", for all that silver work. The lock is indeed the ubiquitous Spanish patilla miquelet, which that area and the areas under Ottoman domain adopted...
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    Spanish Fowler Build?

    Ricky, even at this late date, I still give that Gomez lock a once over. I may have noticed something I missed before. To wit, I do not see any threads in the two mounting holes. Could just be the pics are fooling me, but again, given the other odd things about this lock, such as it never being...
  12. M

    unusual sear on a percussion pistol

    Spence, you are not the only one wondering. Noel Corry in a 1962 article on percussion miquelets in the Gun Report allowed that he had never run across such a sear setup, until he noticed one in a Sevilla shop. I have taken the liberty of scanning a couple images from the article. Your pistol is...
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    Spanish Fowler Build?

    Ricky, There is listed a Francisco de Austria, circa 1770 listed in W.Keith Neal's Spanish Guns and Pistols. He dosen't give a location. Might be your lockmaker. Unable to locate any more than that.
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    Spanish Fowler Build?

    Ricky, Juan Gomez was a lockmaker in Eibar around 1800. Some thoughts based on the images. Firstly, this lock was never used, I base that on the condition of the frizzen face, the toe of the front cock foot, the rough filing on the barrel side of the bottom jaw, and finally, those two holes...
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    The Handgonnes

    Great start, Tele. Am looking forward to the actual shooting thereof. You are going to shoot, right?
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    Over engineered??

    Ken, thank you-thank you-thank you! I was getting worried no one would show up to translate what I dug up. Now I can go back and view the article with way more understanding. At first I thought it was a take-off of an article on lock proportions and the Golden Mean by John Bivins and associates.
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    Over engineered??

    :confused: This is what the Swiss flinters do when snowed in and can't get to the range. I am not Swiss nor an engineer, but I know a flintlock when I see one. Enjoy http://www.feuerwaffen.ch/HTML/HTML%20Flintschloss%20Theorie%20mini/sld001.html
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    inherited a flintlock... i know nothing

    Skiendog, you may be right about the pirate thing. This pistol screams Barbary Coast, North Africa, Ottoman corsair, probably made in Europe for the African trade. Curator is spot on about the frizzen grooves being a Spanish influence. The grooving is a carry over from the miquelet locks so...
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    Brown Bess Effectiveness

    A very interesting study of the battleground effectiveness of the Brown Bess can be found here: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/jca/2008/00000004/F0020001/art00002 It is a free pdf download. No wonder those stand up and blast away shootouts were so bloody.
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    Spanish Carbine

    Ricky, it appears you may have a carbine produced for the cavalry of the Royal Guard Corps. Early carbines came with conventional flint lock and no barrel bands. The carbine came with a saddle ring which may explain that third screw seen on your sideplate. Since the carbines were used by the...
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