Help me identify this flintlock please!

[wisconsin]

Picked up this flintlock pistol recently and I do not know much about it. There are no barrel proof marks and only one stamp on the lock so far.

What I know so far: Miquelet lock, .62 cal (ish), square pins for barrel and ramrod channel, mostly appears old and surprising light weight wood is used.









Thanks in advance

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Never saw one like that before. Dixiw3 Gun Works sold Miquelet locks for 30 years. It certainly is better finished than most such locks I have seen. CVA sold 2 Miquelet lock pistols in the early days, (1973 + or -) Could be from the same factory and one model came in 61 cal

 

[Jim K]

I think that gun is really old, say about 1970. I think it is a hobby job, with an origin closer to Green Bay than to Karachi. Those jaws could never have held a flint.

Tip: Check the screws with a thread gauge; old time gun makers didn't use standard threads, either inch or metric.

Jim

 

[wisconsin]

Good call on the screws. I wasnt expecting an antique, mostly I want to know for replacement parts

 

[4v50 Gary]

Modern reproduction. Look at the wood.

 

[hillbilly matt]

THATS A PISTOL looks like a cut down brush popping fowler or something ,I love it

How long it is , smoothie or rifled. Where in god name you find that thing

 

[wisconsin]

Its a 12 inch barrel, smooth bore and found from a nice man in Oregon. All it needs is the frizzen hardened or replaced

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Could be an old movie prop, or "functional wall hanger" from Europe. Some collectors could own "working" but non firing replicas in some of the European countries. Could be some high school kid's shop-class final project from the 1960's.

LD

 

[4v50 Gary]

Loyalist Dave - I wish I had that type of high school project. I had to wait until I was well into my adulthood before I started taking blackpowder rifle building classes.

 

[Old No7]

All it needs is the frizzen hardened or replaced...

Check on the net for Earl Kathan, a blackpowder gunsmith in New Hampshire. He just rehardened the frizzen of my lock -- and tuned it some too -- for $25.00 plus shipping (no charge for the tuning he did).

He did a great job and with a very quick turnaround too. I can't recommend him highly enough.

He has a website so you should be able to Google him right up.

Tight groups.

Old No7

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Gary, 20 years ago met a young man at Fort Frederick at a "Firelock" match. Had a rifle he built himself as his final "shop" project in high school.

Today..., they'd lock him up for simply designing a flintock in mechanical drawing class.

LD

 

[Sunray]

Please reduce the size of your pictures
Miquelet locks pre-date flintlocks. Mind you, they were still in use in North Africa well into the 20th Century. Your's is most likely one of those. A commercially made repro would have some kind of marking. Ahab the Gunmaker's wouldn't.

 

[Jim K]

Ahab's guns would work; I doubt that one will.

Jim