Flintlock Conversion

[musketman]

Everyone has seen flintlock-to-percussion conversion kits and visa-versa...

(This could fall under the catagory of, "WHY BOTHER")

You could remove your frizzen and flint and loosly (finger tight) clamp a length of matchlock wick in the jaws, and "voil

 

If you kept the tail of the wick short, (not past the back of the cock) so as to keep the cock over balanced to the front and removed the mainspring, the cock would fall gently into the pan when the sear was tripped. Not quite the positive fuse dip of the real deal but........Hmmmm, now THAT would teach follow through.

Cody

 

[Stumpkiller]

Put some steel wool on the pan on top of the primer charge and clamp a 9v battery in the jaws. your E-Lectric ignition would be the envy of all the in-line shooters.

 

[Curry Mosher]

In the 1590's there was a type of matchlock known as a "snaplock". It consisted of a spring-powered cock and a manually operated pan-cover. The match was put into the jaws of the cock, which was then cocked and the pan primed. When the lock was tripped, the cock brought the match into the pan, firing the weapon. It gave really great ignition and it "stubbed out" the match, too. The possibilities for accidental discharge made it an unpopular style, and the common match-lock with a manual linkage became the standard shortly after 1600.