Flintlock Pistol .....

[MattWisc]

I guess them Underhammers are everywhere! :thumbsup:

 

[Stumpkiller]

Well that's the first under-cock I've even seen . . . on a gun. ::

No trigger guard, either. Interesting pistol, to be sure.

 

[john s mosby]

Have you fired it yet?
Neat looking pistol.

 

[flaming canvas]

I want to see a super slow motion video of that being fired.

 

[robinghewitt]

There's nothing new under the sun ::

 

[CrackStock]

Has anyone considered that these are guns which will surely bite the hand that feeds them?

Just seems like a bad idea to me.

The sidelock interests me as it should flash up into the lock -- again, a bad idea.

CS

 

[Claude Mathis]

There's nothing new under the sun ::

Has anyone ever understood the reasoning behind this design?

Do you suppose it was manufactured on April 1st and we've fallen for it? :crackup:

 

[Rebel]

Been looking at it and it appears that the cock is all the way forward and that the frizzen is also closed. Not sure how that can be. Also trying figure out where the actual pan, pan cover, and vent hole are? MAybe i'm missing something.

 

[guncobbler]

please tell us about this pistol. Caliber, barrel length, how much did you make yourself, how is the grip attached, how does it shoot!

 

[MattWisc]

Hello all!

I would like to say that I designed and built the pictured pistol; but I can not. It was designed and built by Wade Ingrham. Wade builds and offers for sale this style of underhammer pistol with flint or cap ignition. Check out the link listed below.

Wade's Pistols

 

Handgun used by French commandos to defeat the Brittish (Oh yeah, that's right, they lost.) :crackup: Or maybe it's a Polish design.

 

[[email protected]]

Maybe it is the only way that he coud use a left handed lock on a right handed pistol?

**** WV SCROUNGER ***

 

[musketman]

There's nothing new under the sun ::

Has anyone ever understood the reasoning behind this design?

I do...

It's snag free...

Smooth lines means faster to draw, remember, people dressed in billowy clothes back then...

 

[CrackStock]

Claude,

The best that I can surmise is that the lock is upside down to take advantage of the fact that heat and fire will rise when the pan charge ignites. I suspect that the pan was shaped to channel the flash into the vent rather than losing much of benefit of the flash to the normal upward trend.

Still seems like you are exposing the entire lock to a firey bath of bp fouling with every shot. Also note the area just foreward of the lock. Seems to have not enjoyed the fire bath on that wood. The builder may have anticipated some downward damage with what appears to be a metal plate or trigger bolster. I wonder if this was part of the original design or a reactive measure.

But then, maybe the builder was hoping to test exactly all of these thoughts with this piece and continued to learn through continued modification and testing. The fact that we never see anything like this anywhere else likely tells us the result.

Robin, you sure do find some interesting items. It is a pleasure having you out there providing such amusement to the ML communities.

YMHS,
CrackStock

 

[flaming canvas]

It might be faster to draw, but you would lose any time advantage when you cocked it. :imo:

 

[Zonie]

That's the first gun I've seen where wearing a good glove on your shooting hand is required.

It looks like the full fury of the pan flash is going to happen right in front of your shooting finger, and there is not even a fence to slow it down!! :: :: :shocking: :shocking: :curse:

 

[robinghewitt]

It's by truss maker Joseph Egg, he specialised in upside down flinters and flinters that would still fire after an accidental ducking :thumbsup:

 

[horkeye]

NO, NO, NO NO and NO!

You are all on the wrong track!

Them thar shootin ions is made fer the Land Down Under! :crackup:

:thumbsup:

Lehigh County, propa longarms.

:blah: