For Your Viewing Pleasure

[Hanshi]

Thought some of you might enjoy seeing some photos of flintlocks.

All the flintlocks I own.  Nothing special, just great shooting rifles & one smoothbore.




Here's a few that belong to a friend who is a great builder of magnificence.

[old salt]

This one fine looking collection

[Hanshi]

 I'm waiting for others to post photos (gun porn) so we can start discussing each and every one's.

[Hanshi]

Well!  I'm still waiting!

[Patocazador]

Patience is a virtue. 

[beowulf]

nice group of rifles you got there ! I prefer the long rifle over the shorter plains rifles , and my favorites are the southern rifles !

[Cherrybow1]

I don't have anything like the eye candy Hanshi has but this is my starter collection:
All the locks on top of the cabinet represent a planned build

[bmtshooter]

That is a great looking assemblage of essential equipment.  Nice bunch of locks for those future projects as well.   

[Hanshi]

I don't have anything like the eye candy Hanshi has but this is my starter collection:
All the locks on top of the cabinet represent a planned build

Uh...you said something about not having anything like...well!  You have nice ones sprawled all over!  And with all those locks your collection will fill your home causing you to move into the garage.  I have three caplocks but only two of them usable.  I'm hooked on longrifles/flint.

Patience is a virtue. 

Only when it comes to reloading.

nice group of rifles you got there ! I prefer the long rifle over the shorter plains rifles , and my favorites are the southern rifles !

Me too!

[Hanshi]

We're still waiting!  Post some photos and comments; let's keep this going so we don't just fade away!

Here are my two nice caplocks and the retired one; again for your viewing pleasure.  Photos are poor but get the message across.

My Mongrel caplock half stock .45.

.45 H&A retired, dead trigger spring but pristine bore.  Age, 55 years.

.54 US M1841.

Still waiting!

[DandJofAZ]

Hanshi, We are both getting into the old man stage of life, but we can still show these young pups a thing or two.
I'd love to tackle that 45 H&A and make it work .... Those locks are so simple I can make them work great/// I have an H&R like it that is my go to gun and my grandson needs one as we both shoot lefty and those locks are great for us to use..  Mine is my lighter gun to use now that I can't hold up my 40 cal 42" barreled rifle any more... need a bench, log, or tree limb to shoot it .. I hate to see guns with good bores to be retired  to the look at cabinet.  Mine will be out next week when my ports are out of my jugular vein and I can shoot again... my SIL and his neighbor both want to try out the ML way of life....I'll give one or the other a 50 that was broken and gifted to me but now works fine... not much money, just time to make it work...

[beowulf]

my meager collection , some present ,some past ! and many are missing because the photos are missing !

[Cherrybow1]

Beowulf, Are these rifles of your own making? I like the looks of that cap box on the full stock, I haven't seen one like that. Good looking rifles!

[bmtshooter]

This is one reason they are so fun.

[Hanshi]

my meager collection , some present ,some past ! and many are missing because the photos are missing !

They are all some level of "jaw-dropping" but that first one is gorgeous.

Hanshi, We are both getting into the old man stage of life, but we can still show these young pups a thing or two.
I'd love to tackle that 45 H&A and make it work .... Those locks are so simple I can make them work great/// I have an H&R like it that is my go to gun and my grandson needs one as we both shoot lefty and those locks are great for us to use..  Mine is my lighter gun to use now that I can't hold up my 40 cal 42" barreled rifle any more... need a bench, log, or tree limb to shoot it .. I hate to see guns with good bores to be retired  to the look at cabinet.  Mine will be out next week when my ports are out of my jugular vein and I can shoot again... my SIL and his neighbor both want to try out the ML way of life....I'll give one or the other a 50 that was broken and gifted to me but now works fine... not much money, just time to make it work...

Doug, on the H&A the spring still powers the hammer just fine.  The problem lies with the rear of it where the leaf on the spring will not reset the trigger.  Instead of springing the trigger back into battery so the hammer can be cocked again it just bends and stays bent (dead).  And "old" is just a vague term with no true definition; just as "young" is.  "Old"?  How old, 30, 35, 45, 88?  "Young"?  6 mos, 2 years, 20, 32; see what I mean?  We're not "old", just mature.  So get well and get out there with Ol' Betsy.