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raszpla

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A rare combined match snapper- and wheellock end of the sixteenth century
« on: January 14, 2012, 06:51:58 PM »
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raszpla

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Re: A rare combined match snapper- and wheellock end of the sixteenth century
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2012, 09:46:05 PM »
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Offline FALout

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Re: A rare combined match snapper- and wheellock end of the sixteenth century
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2012, 01:37:51 AM »
How does this work?  I've seen pics and drawings of old rifles using these mechanisms, but understand this one.  Is it really a matchlock and snaphounse combined?
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Re: A rare combined match snapper- and wheellock end of the sixteenth century
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2012, 03:16:53 AM »
 

FAlout
 it's a wheelock and match lock combined if the pyrite fails as sometimes they do or the wheelock mechanism fails, the match lock is a back up ignition. Sometimes there were two dogs if one pyrite crumbled in the heat of battle one need only engage the spare.
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