There have been quite a few posts lately on pistols. There was Yip's pistol which I think turned out very nice in the end. Also B.Barkers Bull pistols which are also quite fine. We even got into discussions on the difficulty of building pistols.
Any how I love pistols and like to build them and shoot them. About three years ago I decided to shoot in NMLRA's pistol competitions.
However I have no use for ML pistols that resemble modern target pistols, with inline actions and adjustable sights. If I wanted to go that route I would just as soon shoot modern bullseye, which I do. Looking through the match rules, there is a category for Kentucky pistols.
That sub aggregate requires you to shoot a flintlock as well as a percussion Kentucky pistol. Also you must shoot an as issued revolver from the era of the war between the states. That is the only time I will mention them.
I made a caplock pistol first, since I had most of the parts on hand for it. Only thing I needed was a a set trigger. I bought one from Larry Akers. I was hoping to meet him at Friendship this June but God willing I will meet him there in September. I really like his triggers and said as much when I posted that pistol here.
Well I needed a flintlock pistol and was acquiring parts for it. I had my wood which I got from one of our members, Troy Sweeny.
I needed an L&R Bailes flintlock, since that was the lock on the caplock version.
I had a no name .45 barrel with 1 in 22 twist which looked good on the inside.
Well to make a long story longer, at the first AZWINS I bought an old Cochran flintlock from my Old friend Charlie Maggard. Charlie has been engraving for about 20 years and this lock was engraved by him. I also had a .32 cal Quigliano barrel( I think thats how you spell it). So I was sidetracked. I really wanted to build a flintlock pistol that was as close to the caplock as possible. Did not to be identical but close. Any way I built the 32 first . But I got on track and started building the flintlock .45 to go along with my caplock. First thing I did was to get another one of Larry Akers wonderful single set triggers. Much easier to design the gun around the triggers than to try to incorporated them in later. Well to put an end to this I finished that pistol so I'm going to post pictures of both the .32 and the .45, also a photo of both the pistols I made for competition.
That is the .32
thats the .45
these are the two competition pistols. Not identical but close. The flintock weighs 2 ounces more than the capper.
