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Peter Bosman
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 Posted: Sun 13 May, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: Wheellock pistols? |
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Anybody know of functional replica wheellock pistols availeable?
The only ones I can find are in parts from the rifle shoppe and are beyond my skills.
Peter
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Gordon Frye
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| Posted: Sun 13 May, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: Re: Wheellock pistols? |
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Peter;
There isn't much at the moment. I've heard some rumours of someone setting up to make some in India, but that's about all I've gotten: rumours. A company called Mendi in Spain was making a wheellock for Navy Arms to import into the US about 20 years ago, and I assume that they made them for the European market as well, but I have no idea as to whether they might still be in production or not. Assuming that they're not, perhaps you could find one second hand, as that would probably be about your only option for a reasonably priced one.
If you don't mind spending some serious dinero though, there is a gentleman in Germany who makes some wonderful custom wheellocks. Here's his site:
http://www.engerisser.de/Bewaffnung/weapons/Firearms.html
Herr König is a very polite gentleman with whom I have had the pleasure of exchanging pleasantries, and I'm sure he would be happy to be of service to you in acquiring a fine wheellock pistol or carbine for you collection.
Cheers,
Gordon
"After God, we owe our victory to our Horses"
Gonsalo Jimenez de Quesada
http://www.renaissancesoldier.com/
http://historypundit.blogspot.com/
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Peter Bosman
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| Posted: Sun 13 May, 2007 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Gordon. Indeed I am not prepaired to spend an arm and a leg.
Being of dutch birth I would like a dutch lock as this was a reliable as they came but the dutch gunsmiths are long extinct.
There is a gunsmith in England operating under the company name Albion Replica Arms too but he is not taking on orders because he has too many anyway.
I will try t find the spanish firm. One never knows.
Peter
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Peter Bosman
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| Posted: Mon 14 May, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: |
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I understand the why of the success of the flintlock and do not differ in the opinion on that. Just look as what is possible with a wheellock. This picture is taken from the underside of a pistol that was made by a dutch weaponsmith.
Peter
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Lafayette C Curtis
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That's why I talked in the other thread about some wheellock-based decorative otifs that simply can't be applied to flintlocks...
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Peter Bosman
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| Lafayette C Curtis wrote: | | That's why I talked in the other thread about some wheellock-based decorative otifs that simply can't be applied to flintlocks... |
And quite right you are. This makes it easy to understand why someone of means who is buying a pistol as a personal statement would not worry too much about battle field ruggedness and have the best watchmaker-gunsmith make him a wheellock piece of art untill the status value of it deminished.
Peter
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George Doby
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| Posted: Sat 02 Jun, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: |
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are the rifle shoppes wheellocks reliable? and are they reliable?
don't sweat the petty things, just pet the sweaty things
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Gordon Frye
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This is a standard topic