Cleetus...a "Flint-cussion" gun?

[Sentry44]

So uh...yer guess is as good as mine. Cleetus made a "Flint-cussion" gun?

Sentry44

 

[bpd303]

Maybe in search of a better mouse trap.

 

[Gtrubicon]

Jim Beam and Jack Daniel were the project engineers for this one.

 

[russellshaffer]

Ugly but it would work. A lot easier to clamp a piece of steel in the jaws though.

 

[CuNosecap]

Looks like a nut cracker.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Yes, clamping a steel striking plug in the jaws is a much easier solution. No welding required.

 

[kyron4]

 

[mikesto44]

Well golly....! I'll be danged..!!

 

[Doc]

Thought this group might like this. Yes it has been shot, but is now a safe queen.
Doc,

 

[Wncman]

Ugly but it would work. A lot easier to clamp a piece of steel in the jaws though.

That I have seen. A piece forged and clamped in. Drum and nipple in the touch hole. Frizzen removed

 

[Snooterpup]

So uh...yer guess is as good as mine. Cleetus made a "Flint-cussion" gun?

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Sentry44

Really novel way to re-purpose a frizzen and destroy a good lock. Ebay would have been a better option but whatever.

 

[russellshaffer]

Thought this group might like this. Yes it has been shot, but is now a safe queen.
Doc,

This one is workable. I assume the percussion cap is used to fire the pan powder? It would be expensive to build.

 

[wganz]

 

[Doc]

This one is workable. I assume the percussion cap is used to fire the pan powder? It would be expensive to build.

The pan powder is fired with the flint the percs nipple hole goes directly through to the main charge. There is a sliding cover over the pan powder for percs.
Doc,

 

[deerstalkert]

Thought this group might like this. Yes it has been shot, but is now a safe queen.
Doc,

that one is a work of art!

 

[mikesto44]

I remember when Dixie made their Mountain rifle an it came with two locks one of each. It was a good gun an I've always wondered why Kibler never made a percussion lock to be interchangeable. His SMR is patterned after a percussion rifle.
With all the requests for a percussion. I'm surprised he hasn't. JMHO

 

[Loyalist Dave]

So uh...yer guess is as good as mine. Cleetus made a "Flint-cussion" gun?

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Sentry44

Looks like a crude attempt to make a DIY tube lock.

The tube-lock was from 1831, Instead of a cap, a tube of powder with Potassium Permanganate would be used, and could be inserted into the touch hole. An impact would then detonate the tube, and part of that detonation would reach the main charge. It was a simple conversion over from a flintlock, requiring the existing lock to be modified with three new parts. (Fast and inexpensive conversion..., on paper... still had to train the privates....) No barrel mods necessary. In this case it looks like the flat cover portion of the previous frizzen is coming down and would ignite such a system. The overlarge square would deflect most of the additional ignition downwards.... A rather ham fisted approach.

Unless the guy was "demilling" the lock to use it as a stage prop at a school?

Here are good videos on a tube lock system that was perfected...,

Austro-Hungarian Tube Lock Pistol (12 min)... and the host is RIGHT, the majority of good things in life begin with opening a beer.....

Austro-Hungarian Tube Lock Rifle (37 min)

LD

 

[dracer]

Looks like a crude attempt to make a DIY tube lock.

The tube-lock was from 1831, Instead of a cap, a tube of powder with Potassium Permanganate would be used, and could be inserted into the touch hole. An impact would then detonate the tube, and part of that detonation would reach the main charge. It was a simple conversion over from a flintlock, requiring the existing lock to be modified with three new parts. (Fast and inexpensive conversion..., on paper... still had to train the privates....) No barrel mods necessary. In this case it looks like the flat cover portion of the previous frizzen is coming down and would ignite such a system. The overlarge square would deflect most of the additional ignition downwards.... A rather ham fisted approach.

Unless the guy was "demilling" the lock to use it as a stage prop at a school?

Here are good videos on a tube lock system that was perfected...,

Austro-Hungarian Tube Lock Pistol (12 min)... and the host is RIGHT, the majority of good things in life begin with opening a beer.....

Austro-Hungarian Tube Lock Rifle (37 min)

LD

good info

 

[Paul Nelson]

Found this beauty a while back on the web.

 

[Mad L]

Looks like a crude attempt to make a DIY tube lock.

The tube-lock was from 1831, Instead of a cap, a tube of powder with Potassium Permanganate would be used, and could be inserted into the touch hole. An impact would then detonate the tube, and part of that detonation would reach the main charge. It was a simple conversion over from a flintlock, requiring the existing lock to be modified with three new parts. (Fast and inexpensive conversion..., on paper... still had to train the privates....) No barrel mods necessary. In this case it looks like the flat cover portion of the previous frizzen is coming down and would ignite such a system. The overlarge square would deflect most of the additional ignition downwards.... A rather ham fisted approach.

Unless the guy was "demilling" the lock to use it as a stage prop at a school?

Here are good videos on a tube lock system that was perfected...,

Austro-Hungarian Tube Lock Pistol (12 min)... and the host is RIGHT, the majority of good things in life begin with opening a beer.....

Austro-Hungarian Tube Lock Rifle (37 min)

LD

I really like his Range Rod SLING!
I might have to start drinking beer again!
As I don't have any 'benches' where I shoot, I'm going to go check my leather strap supply!