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  1. M

    Wheellocks in Graz Museum

    Here is an article for the wheellock buffs in the group. Short, interesting, and with great images. Wheellocks in Graz
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    Help ID Musketoon

    Not real sure what it is, but this one comes close. http://www.collegehillarsenal.com/shop/product.php?productid=67
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    What's this?

    Not a miquelet. Moroccan snaphaunce circa 1800 + -50 years. Can't tell from the pictures if the lock is local made. Thousands of locks were made in northern Europe (read Holland and England)and shipped to North Africa, often as ransom payment for captured seamen.
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    Arab Miqulet

    Ricky, that is a very nice Istanbul miquelet lock on that Balkan pistol. That pistol is very likely not the first pistol that lock has been on. It is a Cadilac lock on a Pinto stock. And good on you for shooting it, after you got the barrel lined. I envy you for the fun you are having with it.
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    Handmade Miquelet lock.

    Wulf I admire your taste in locks and I'm in awe of your lock making skill. The agujeta descendent Maghribi miquelet lock you made is beautiful. Craftsmanship of the first order. I'm unsurprised you get no bounce with your locks. On the other hand, my original patilla style miquelet lock...
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    Handmade Miquelet lock.

    Teleceras, Excellent point. Other excellent points on the practicality of the locks can be made. Non-jarring gentle is not one of them. Other than the excellent, but huge, Ottoman rifles, patilla locks didn't seem to appear on European rifles. On a personal level, I tried once on a rifle...
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    Zeughauswaffen website

    Nice site for sure. Here's another nifty one: http://www.engerisser.de/Bewaffnung/Bewaffnung.html The neat stuff is on the sidebar.
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    Nice Slide show at Czerny's

    Actually, that would be a "short" sort. Sorry about that. D'oh
  9. M

    Nice Slide show at Czerny's

    Hello All, Nice. but sort, slide show at Czerny's Auction House. Czerny's Enjoy
  10. M

    Wheellock vidio

    Without a doubt, a piece of non-Teleoceras grade pyrite.
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    Wheellock vidio

    New technology to see old technology--gotta love it.
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    1624 Snaphaunce Sporting Gun

    Wulf, that is too bad and too odd, as I clicked on the miqueleter address and sent a test email. Went over to the other setup and there the test email was in the mailbox. Any chance you could give it another try. Have to ask here as your profile page shows no email address. Or maybe even post...
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    1624 Snaphaunce Sporting Gun

    Teleoceras, I took it down after I created the Wikipedia entry on the miquelet. However, since nothing ever dies once it is in Google cache, it's still out there. And I do visit the forum everyday, along with several other daily blog visits. There are some superb artisans and articulate regulars...
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    1624 Snaphaunce Sporting Gun

    Here is an interesting article, with images, from U. of York in the UK on a brass snaphaunce sporting gun. Link
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    Greek pistol?

    Arrowstorm, so sorry to mess up your handle. Must have been in my 70's frame of mind.
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    Greek pistol?

    It is a Balkan miquelet, probably Albanian or Northern Greek, say around 1800-1830. Arrowsmith is quite right, it is a kubar or horse pistol. Place of manufacture could be Istanbul, or any one of the smithing centers in the Balkans. Equally probable is that it came out of Brescia or Liege. The...
  17. M

    Why not share your knowledge.

    Now that's what I'm talking about. From truly awlfull to truly first rate. Wow, great job, benvenuto. Guess we'll have to yank your chain more often.
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    Why not share your knowledge.

    Peruse almost any post in this forum and you cannot help coming away with something you did not know. Well, that's fine for this august group, however, why let the rest of the world read plain and simple claptrap, myths, and regergitated misinformation. There is a place where anyone, with...
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    Some interesting photos located...

    ...on the Teuton Handgonner's site. He's probably better known as Teleoceras. Pay a visit to his site and click on the new link titled The Swedish Army Museum Collection. I poke around his home once in a while because he keeps adding neat sites and that's the case today. Couldn't understand a...
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    Master and Commander

    :m2c:The Danes may have tried to get a flintlock to work as a cannon ignition as early as 1718. Same year for French attempts. Every navy got serious about it by the 1740's. Mounting the darn thing seems to have been the challenge. There is an excellent article on this very subject in the Nov...
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