once again

[elk killer]

this is on over in fakebook
just dont understand as to the why

[James Wilson Everett]

Hey, Like your earlier posting, where in the world would the rear lock bolt go?  My advise, stop looking at "fakebook" it looks like whatever you see - do the opposite!!

Jim

[Mattox Forge]

What in the world is going on? A touch hole installation? Why would anyone put one halfway up the barrel?

Which group on Facebook is this in.

Mike

[Mattox Forge]

It might be an AI generated picture. The lighting and bench look too perfect to be real.
Fakebook indeed.
Mike

[smart dog]

Hi Guys,
That is one of Ethan Yazel's "Kill Or Be Killed" coffee mugs.  I suspect it may be a photo from Shane Emig's "coffee club" and as such is probably meant as a joke.

dave

[scottmc]

Dave,
You could be right but I suspect not.  I've been in their shop and don't remember a bench top like that and also the frilly curtains.  Plus, I don't think Shane or Brad are using Dixon's gunmaking tutorial book anymore🤣

Scott

[Steeltrap]

The longest lock plate ever made.......

[recurve]

maybe a very long /deep breach plug for very heavy charges of swiss LOL 

you could dry that barrel and keep on shooting without pulling 

[Bob Roller]

Believe it or not,I saw one similar to this years ago and the lock was a Twigg.It had a cross screw in front of the mainspring and another  just BEHIND the sear.I think the screwball idea was to fire the charge from the center of the powder column.This was in the late 1950's at Friendship.A now deceased friend would say "Screwball idea 4211A is now a reality. .

Bob Roller

[Joe S.]

Perhaps the ATF declared flintlocks to be classified as destructive devices and are showing you how to properly de-mill it onto a civilian friendly wall hanger.

[Bob Roller]

Here in Huntington WVa we have an Art Museum with a fine gun collection that has a real oddity,It's a flintlock rifle with a sliding lock that used superposed loads.The big thing WAS to remember to fire the front one first and hope it didn't leak fire into the second one,Another idea that fell flat on the road to repeating rifles.The name on the gun is Ellis.
Bob Roller

[smart dog]

Dave,
You could be right but I suspect not.  I've been in their shop and don't remember a bench top like that and also the frilly curtains.  Plus, I don't think Shane or Brad are using Dixon's gunmaking tutorial book anymore🤣

Scott

Hi Scott,
The coffee club is organized by Shane and includes quite a few makers.  It is likely one of the other member's shop.

dave

[oldtravler61]

  This picture is from the Muzzleloaders forum I believe.

[smart dog]

Hi,
I believe it is Facebook.  I am on the Muzzleloading Forum quite a bit and have never seen it.

dave

[Hatchet-Jack]

I saw this posted on the "I Love Muzzleloading" Facebook group a few days ago.

[Ky-Flinter]

I've just about given up on Facebook.  The Fakebook label is more appropriate.  Seems like many people post outlandish pictures or say outlandish things just to get people stirred up or to start a fight.

Ron

[alacran]

I have never used Facebook, so what I am now posting is not to defend it in any way. I have seen pictures of a rifle with superposed locks for superposed charges. it is possible that this is what is going on here. You can only install one touch hole at a time, and it is possible that it is best to install the forward one first.
The one whose pictures I saw had two cocks on one plate. Similar to what Bob Roller mentions in his post.
I was told by a friend that visited the 45th Infantry Museum in Oklahoma City that they have two examples of superposed flintlocks in their collection.

[Jacob_S_P]

It's the new magnum breech plug with 1.5" of threads for smokeless flintlocks.

[Daryl]

As far as one load in front of the other, I don't "see" enough room for a load behind that 'vent' and the front of the breech plug.