Light Dragoon
40 Cal.
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I just got a Doglock pistol delivered to me from Middlesex Village Traders and it's pretty nifty. It's a "made in India" arm, so the quality is exactly Boutet, but it will do. It's a decent, serviceable arm intended for rough use and ought to stand up to anything I'm likely to hand over to it.
(This image is from The Discriminating General's site, they also have this pistol for sale.
As you can tell even in this picture, the pan-cover isn't fitted quite right... they got the hole for the frizzen screw too far back, but it can be fitted to within reason with a few licks of a file.
The lock is an "English Lock" with both an internal (though laterally acting) safety on the tumbler and a dog catch on the cock. The sear acts on the tail of the cock just like with a snaphaunce, and in fact there isn't a whole lot of difference between them other than the frizzen and pancover being joined. These locks have been found in numbers both in Jamestown and Plimoth Colonies, so they're dead on for early American Colonial. Not that there were any Cavalry in Colonial America much before the middle of the century, but there certainly were targeteers who were armed with a broadsword, shield and pistol.
I thought it was pretty nifty that it pretty well fulfills the requirements laid down by John Cruso in 1632 for a Cuirassier's weapons (although he specified wheellocks rather than doglocks):
He must have two cases with good firelocks, pistols hanging at his saddle, having a barrell of 18 inches long, and the bore of 20 bullets to the pound (or 24 rowling in)...
This pistol is a tad short, being only made with a 16 inch barrel: darn! But it's of the right calibre, and would be a decent arm to slip into the saddle holsters of a Roundhead Trooper, or a Cavalier for that matter. Or be carried by a Targeteer at Jamestown.
Anyway, it sparks well and sets off the priming every time that I've tried it so far, isn't bad looking, and the lock is a pretty darned good reproduction of the early locks that were pumped out in numbers first for Colonial America then for the English Civil War. Not pretty, but serviceable.
Cheers,
Gordon
(This image is from The Discriminating General's site, they also have this pistol for sale.
As you can tell even in this picture, the pan-cover isn't fitted quite right... they got the hole for the frizzen screw too far back, but it can be fitted to within reason with a few licks of a file.
The lock is an "English Lock" with both an internal (though laterally acting) safety on the tumbler and a dog catch on the cock. The sear acts on the tail of the cock just like with a snaphaunce, and in fact there isn't a whole lot of difference between them other than the frizzen and pancover being joined. These locks have been found in numbers both in Jamestown and Plimoth Colonies, so they're dead on for early American Colonial. Not that there were any Cavalry in Colonial America much before the middle of the century, but there certainly were targeteers who were armed with a broadsword, shield and pistol.
I thought it was pretty nifty that it pretty well fulfills the requirements laid down by John Cruso in 1632 for a Cuirassier's weapons (although he specified wheellocks rather than doglocks):
He must have two cases with good firelocks, pistols hanging at his saddle, having a barrell of 18 inches long, and the bore of 20 bullets to the pound (or 24 rowling in)...
This pistol is a tad short, being only made with a 16 inch barrel: darn! But it's of the right calibre, and would be a decent arm to slip into the saddle holsters of a Roundhead Trooper, or a Cavalier for that matter. Or be carried by a Targeteer at Jamestown.
Anyway, it sparks well and sets off the priming every time that I've tried it so far, isn't bad looking, and the lock is a pretty darned good reproduction of the early locks that were pumped out in numbers first for Colonial America then for the English Civil War. Not pretty, but serviceable.
Cheers,
Gordon
