Mechanisms

[paulitus]

As cool as these are to look at, I always get the urge to take this kind of stuff apart, and see how it works.

[PhDBrewer]

Yep. I also. Many are built to not have exposed fasteners. Just one pin that starts the process of disassembly. Revolver matchlocks & wheellocks were around. Just not very common. Where are these located?
Thanks for sharing!

William

[Bob Roller]

The quest for more than ONE shot has been a fascinating road to travel.We have a flintlock rifle in our museum here in Huntington WVa that has a sliding lock that was supposed to fired superposed loads and I have wondered if it was ever tested to see if the idea would work.
I suppose remembering to fire the top load first and hope it doesn't do a Roman Candle from leaky loads. .would be a test.
Bob Roller

[paulitus]

These items, and countless others, are displayed at the Musee de L’Armee, in Paris.

[Flint62Smoothie]

For those revolving matchlocks pictured, note that the revolving section on the first (top) one is a few inches ahead of the pan location.

That makes me wonder that in order to shoot that one, would one have to ram the charge that was stored in the revolving section, down into the breech?