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Long Land Brown Bess Musket

Ranger Brown Bess Musket

East India Pattern Brown Bess Musket

Ship's Flintlock Carbine

Ketland Flintlock Fusil

1717 French Flintlock Musket

1777 French Flintlock Musket

1777 French Flintlock Carbine

Flintlock Fusil de Chasse

1740 Potzdam Flintlock Musket

1757 Spanish Flintlock Musket

New England Flintlock Fowler

Early Trade Flintlock Musket

Baker Flintlock Rifle

1816 Springfield Flintlock Musket

Double Barrel Flintlock Shotgun

English Lock Fishtail Fowler

English Matchlock Musket

Dutch Flintlock Blunderbuss

Early Doglock Blunderbuss

1853 Enfield Rifle Musket

British Heavy Dragoon Flintlock Pistol

British Eliot Light Dragoon Flintlock Pistol

British 1756 Sea Service Flintlock Pistol

Flintlock Ketland Trade Pistol

Double Barrel Flintlock Pistol

1733 French Flintlock Pistol

1773 French Flintlock Pistol

German Flintlock Pistol

Scottish Murdoch Flintlock Pistol

Royal Highland Regiments Flintlock Pistol

English Doglock Pistol

Double Barrel Percussion Pistol

Here is our doglock pistol. It is a piece represnting the technology of the 1650-1680 era. The lock is an "English lock" as opposed to a French lock, which is what we call a true flintlock today.

The English lock was a transitional step in the evolution of the flintlock. It uses many of the concepts from the earlier snaphaunce, such as the horizontal sear, the external buffer, and the idea of the tumbler shaft being attatched to the cock and not the tumbler, but did away with the pan cover and the mechanism to operate it. In the English lock, the pan cover and steel are incorporated into one part known in the period as the "battery" (we call it a frizzen today). As small a thing as this may seem, it is a major step in the evolution of the flintlock.

The original to this piece came from a private collection in England and the stock and barrel markings were reproduced. This is a formidable piece, with a 16" long barrel in the .62 cal range. Your pistol's actual bore measurement will be marked on the cover of your owner's manual. These would have been carried in pistol buckets with the butts facing forward (away from the rider) so you would have the room to draw them.

Being an early lock design, this pistol doesn't use regular pistol flints as the geometry is copied directly from the original piece. The squared gunflint as we know it today was not yet in vogue when these were developed. Instead, they were built with a "gunspall" in mind, which was basically a chunk of flint. The reccomended flint size will be marked on the cover of your owner's manual.

Here is a right hand view of the English Lock pistol. It is as big as it looks.

In the left hand view, you can see that there is no sideplate, typical of 17th century "work" guns. Instead there are three panhead screws to secure the lock.

Here is a close up of the lock. If you look close, you can see how these are the next step in evolution from the snaphaunce. It retains the horizontal sear and external buffer.

The 16" barrel is two staged and has 17th century markings.

Here's a view of the bottom, where you can see the early style triggerguard and 17th century rack markings.