wheel lock

Looking at their past inventory list http://loyalistarms.freeservers.com/listoffirearmsavailable.html It is mouth-watering. Miquelets?! escopteas, snaphaunces, not to mention wheellock long guns. Curious what happened to them. (and ... sad I got into this hobby an era too late). And whether...

This is the second of the wheel locks and is sized for a smaller carbine, rifle, or puffer-type pistol. Pictured with the lock is a Dutch trade musket which is also for sale. The lock was made with the notion of replacing the Leonard Day flintlock with the wheel lock. The lock by itself is...

I have two new wheel locks made by noted gunsmith Bolek Maciaszazyk being posted separately. The first is an early style made for a military type musket c. 1580-1620. Bolek is arguably the finest wheel lock maker in the world and his work is solid and artful. When you wind the wheel, you get...