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    Offhand accuracy with flintlock pistols ?

    This may count as unmetnionable, but I attach a MantisX dryfire trainer to my BP pistols. (Plastic pic rail and velcro tape or leccy tape) I only get to shoot them every couple of months and dryfire training is my hope for getting better.
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    Please help to identify flintlock........Thanks!!!

    My first question is has it been shortened? My instinctive guess is that it is a trade musket, maybe early to middle 1800s for export sale, made in France or Belgium. The steel rammer is a musket thing. The stamped lettering signifies later industrial technology, but the styling of the details...
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    What is that guy doing?

    Thanks! You are right - and 'lunten' referes to the dry fungus punk match. I think that could be what we see being used in a pinch to light the OP's powder - except the picture is so modern that I just think the artist interpreted the action of lighting a touch hole for himself. I learned not...
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    What is that guy doing?

    It most likely was AI (artist intelligence) from verbal prompts. But remember, what we call matchlocks we assume were lit from burning string. What does 'luntenschloss' mean? I understand the backup matchlocks in wheellocks used a dry fungus lint, that formed a coal and burned slow.
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    The OLDEST in my BP collection …

    The generous late Michael Tromner posted this at Vikingsword forum: 15th century short wrought iron barrels - why there are so many around Broadly, what we see is preservation bias. Artworks, royal catalogues and other documentation shows all our speculations are true at the same time. What...
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    An American Percussion Long Rifle That Has Been In My Family for Many Generations Possibly by John Hinds

    Great story, great conversation thank you. Old family stories are far better when you can still show the house and the very gun (or scar - hold my beer would you?) of which you are talking! Our equivalent family muzzleloader 'The Blunderbus' was taken apart to 'restore' by the youngest brother...
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    3F powder vs. 2F in .54cal flintlock rifle

    I shoot .54 Mortimer flinter and .54 Tryon percussion, both by Pedersoli. This is Muzzle Loading Club matches, 13 shots per card, offhand at 50m, kneeling or timed at 50m, and benchrest or prone at 100m. I boof some powder for fouling before first shot. I use 55gn WANO 3P or 3F for 50m cards and...
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    What to do with pan primer?

    We load at the firing line benches with pre-measured vials. No horns permitted, around the corner is a bench for measuring more vials. I used to use a priming gadget, but I prefer using a screw-top vial. It is easy and clear to see there is powder inside. A twist of the vial makes a sweet...
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    Two Neill Fields rifles get a new custodian

    I found the old thread where a couple of Neill's works turned up at the Ancient Ones of Maine. In Western Australia we have new gunlaws in 2024, far worse than the rest of Australia got in 1996. We are now limited in number each licensee can have, and they are fewer than we need to shoot the...
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    I gave in to

    Very noice! Well done.
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    Pyrite Update

    Condolences! I have accumulated pyrite for years, but never tried to cut it myself except using a core saw on diamond drill core. When I do cut for wheellocks, I have waiting a Dremel diamond cutting disk, and a jewellers saw. Probably will try a coping saw first. But my suggestion is go to a...
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    Well that didn't go as planed.

    I too do the rightward flick on cocking my Army model, and it helps a lot. But a busted sear nose? Its almost certain that there was an 'episode' of bad handling, possibly when you put it in someone else's hands or before you bought it for all I know. I take kids and complete newbies shooting...
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    16th-17th Century gunsmithing tools?

    Look for pictures from old books - there are a few showing gunsmiths' and gunfounders' shops. I find Pinterest pretty helpful for a while.
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    Wheellocks, rifled or smoothbore

    The Landeszeughaus armory at Graz has many military quality wheellocks, and some more ornate ones possibly seized from lords on the wrong side of the wars of religion. I peered into a LOT of muzzles there, and did not find one with rifling. Of course if it were coned for loading on horseback...
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    Powder Magazine Accident 1654

    The reason the magazine is inside the town is pretty damn obvious. At that time the whole of Europe had just emerged from the Thrty Years War, and then the first Anglo-Dutch War. Cities were fortified with star fort citadels tooled up with many cannon. To deter or withstand seige, they needed...
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    Inlay and decoration in the pre flintlock era

    The first one with the 'pattern of raised bumps' should be understood as checkering. It is much coarser checkering than we are used to, but it looks like excellent for retention as you handle it - eg reloading on horseback.
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    Pre Flintlock Books

    Great thread idea, TobJohn!
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    Pre Flintlock Books

    “Wheellock Firearms of the Royal Armouries”: By, Graeme Rimer. Thin and inexpensive but very good.
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    Pre Flintlock Books

    Guns and Rifles of the World Blackmore, Howard L. Published by Chancellor Press, 1965 and many other publishers. Absolute classic wth many excellent line drawings of locks and stock profiles
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    Pre Flintlock Books

    Who has seen this? Leonardo, the Wheel Lock, and the Milling Process Author(s): Vernard Foley, Steven Rowley, David F. Cassidy, F. Charles Logan Source: Technology and Culture, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1983), pp. 399-427 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Society for...
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