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	Flintlock mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French courtier Marin le Bourgeoys made the first firearm incoporating a true flintlock mechanism for King Louis XIII shortly after his accession to the throne in 1610.
		The development of firearm lock mechanisms had proceeded from matchlock to wheellock to snaphance and miquelet in the previous two or three centuries, and each type had been an improvement, contributing some design features which were useful.
		The slide was a slow one, even at that, since the percussion system was not widely used until around 1830, and the flintlock continued in common use until the time of the American Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flintlock_mechanism (226 words)

	IHEA Homestudy: Glossary of Firearm Terms
		Action: The mechanism of a firearm directly behind the barrel, by which a gun is loaded, locked, fired, unlocked, extracted and ejected.
		Flintlock: The gunlock of early firearms in which flint is thrown against steel, causing sparks to ignite the powder charge.
		Wheel-Lock: An early firearm mechanism in which a wheel with serrated edges is wound against the tension of a strong spring and spins against a piece of iron pyrite, sending a shower of sparks into the pan to ignite the charge.
	homestudy.ihea.com /glossary_fa.htm (3882 words)

	History of Rifles
		The main difference between the Flintlock and Snaphaunce is that in the Flintlock the striking surface and flashpan cover are all one piece, where in the Snaphaunce they are separate mechanisms.
		This mechanism is almost immune to dampness, though in a rainfall one must still be cautious to avoid getting water in the gun barrel or into the ignition system while loading the weapon.
		The percussion cap firing mechanism gave an individual soldier a weapon of precision and reliability which was used to devastating effect in the U.S. Civil War.
	ruffcountry.tripod.com /gruffsgunsite/id1.html (2107 words)

	History Detectives . Weapon Dating . Gun Timeline \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Powder is held in a "flash pan," and ignited by a wick, or match, in a movable clamp.
		The flintlock mechanism was designed to push back the lid and spark a flint at the same time.
		Various guns were used, until a true dueling pistol was officially standardized in 1777, as "a 9 or 10 inch barreled, smooth bore flintlock of 1 inch bore, carrying a ball of 48 to the pound." Often lavishly decorated, the pistols are made until dueling falls out of favor in the mid-1800s.
	www.pbs.org /opb/historydetectives/techniques/pup_wd.html (757 words)

	Paul's Antique Arms & Armour--Flintlock Longarms
		Beveled German-type flintlock mechanism with a flat, gooseneck hammer and a faceted unbridled powder-pan.
		The iron surfaces of the barrel with a chocolate-brown age patina and the expected moderate pitting at the breech and touch hole.
		In original flintlock condition with moderately pitted, dark surfaces with a smooth untouched patina overall.
	www.ambroseantiques.com /flongarms.htm (7856 words)

	Black Powder & Muzzleloading / Ignition Systems
		The genius behind the flintlock was that the pan containing the priming charge was always closed and therefore more protected from the elements until the hammer containing the flint would fall, opening it, creating sparks and igniting it.
		The guns without rifling were retained for shooting multiple pellets (shot) at shorter ranges and they were called fowling pieces, or (shot guns) now (shotguns) where as rifled guns (rifles) were used to propel one projectile at a time much further and more accurate do to the spin imparted to the projectile.
		This firing mechanism is a great step in advancement from its predecessors because it does not use an exposed flashpan to begin the ignition process.
	www.gunnersden.com /blackpowder/index.htm.blackpowder-firearm-ignition-systems.html (865 words)

	Terminology
		This is to protect the shooter (or in reenacting scenarios, other shooters to the right of the shooter) from sparks from the powder and the flash when shooting a flintlock.
		Frizzen- This is the large, flat, metal leaf that is in front of the hammer on a flintlock.
		However as with all mechanical devices you should not rely on half cock and travel with a rifle that is primed while in half cock.
	mamaflinter.tripod.com /id8.html (914 words)

	Articles - Firearm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A firearm is a kinetic energy mechanical device that fires either single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant.
		As a result, the percussion cap mechanism was considerably safer, far more weatherproof, and vastly more reliable (cloth-bound cartridges containing a premeasured charge of gunpowder and a ball had been in regular military service for many years, but the exposed gunpowder in the entry to the touch hole had long been a source of misfires).
		Eventually, the "rapid" firing mechanism was perfected and miniaturized to the extent that either the recoil of the firearm or the gas pressure from firing could be used to operate it (which made the firing mechanisms truly "automatic").
	lastring.com /articles/Firearm?mySession=4b2b2f9c9f8cb4f306d12b8050e... (5164 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 Making History - Flintlock guns
		The flintlock firing mechanism dates back to the 16th century, although it was another hundred years before it was generally used in infantry muskets, by which time it had been perfected.
		The basic action is that the trigger is pulled and a spring causes the striker, the frizzen, to strike the flint which showers sparks on to the gunpowder in the priming pan.
		The Brown Bess was one of the best-known flintlock guns in military use.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/making_history/makhist10_prog8d.shtml (493 words)

	Beaux Arts USA: Gun Locks
		There was no true "firing mechanism" or lock incorporated into their design.
		Indeed, the first available flintlocks were often assigned to guard the powder train where weapons with a slow-burning match posed a particular danger.
		During the first quarter of the 19th century, it was fairly common practice to convert a flintlock to a percussion lock.
	www.beauxartsusa.com /Locks.htm (596 words)

	Executive Days - air pistol shooting
		The flintlock therefore needs: A piece of flint A piece of steel A place for the sparks to touch gunpowder The flint needs to move at high speed and strike the steel in such a way that the sparks fall into some gunpowder.
		The flintlock mechanism was the first reliable and relatively inexpensive system for firing a gun, and was hugely popular in colonial America.
		A lock is the ignition mechanism for a gun, and several locks preceded the flintlock.
	www.executivedays.co.uk /air-pistol-shooting.htm (900 words)

	Fireblood Arms - Pirate flintlock pistol.
		"Flintlock" pistols were so called because the lock uses a flint to strike sparks into the priming pan when the trigger is pulled.
		A small amount of gunpowder in this pan is ignited, which in turn ignites the main gunpowder charge in the barrel, firing the lead ball.
		Pirates of the 18th century carried pistols similar to this French flintlock in their raiding exploits.
	www.firebloodarms.com /FB10502.html (146 words)

	Flintlock
		The flintlock was the dominant form of firing method for personal arms for over 200 years from the early 17th century to the early 19th century.
		Indeed the early percussion cap guns used the flinlock striking mechanism, merely replacing the frizzen and pan with a cap mount and the flint with a hammer.
		This is the plate upon which the lock mechanism was constructed before being attached to the gun.
	www.personal.usyd.edu.au /~slaw/SuesPage/flintlk.htm (1170 words)

	Hall of Wonders - Sylvanus - Imperial Republic of Dynesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Such a mechanism lowers the effort you exert and increases the amount of work able to be distributed through the cable in axel.
		Innovated from Flintlock Musket A. Same thing as Flintlock Musket A except that it no longer requires an engineering roll and has a bayonett mount which lets a bayonet twist and fix firmly in place at the muzzle of the musket.
		Locking mechanism which key is inserted to has spring loaded metallic pads that correspond to convex point on the key along with convex spring loaded pads within the inner locking cylinder mechanism that fit into the specific shapes of the key.
	home.houston.rr.com /dynesia/thoros-wonders.html (3554 words)

	Firearm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With a matchlock, the powder is ignited with a lit piece of cord, known as a "match", which is rotated forward by the trigger.
		The spark used to ignite the gunpowder was no longer generated by a complex wheellock, but rather by a piece of flint set in the jaws of the hammer, which when released by the trigger struck a piece of steel (the frizzen) to create the sparks.
		Automatic rifles such as the Browning Automatic Rifle or BAR were in common use during the early part of the 20th century while automatic weapons that fired pistol rounds, known as submachine guns, also became popular during this period.
	www.indexlistus.de /keyword/Firearm.php (1857 words)

	guards Brown Bess flintlock musket
		In the old days, the word 'lock' applied to mechanical contrivances of any kind, including the lock that was fitted on the doors of houses of wealthy people, and to the lock of a gun.
		Historically it was preceded by other mechanisms: the matchlock which was simple, relatively inexpensive, but difficult and hazardous to use; and the wheellock, which was expensive (and was therefore was used only by the wealthy).
		The trigger releases a spring-loaded mechanism that causes a flint to strike against steel, which throws sparks into a priming charge, which in turn ignites the main charge of gunpowder in the barrel.
	footguards.tripod.com /01ABOUT/01_weapons/01_WpBess3.htm (1039 words)

	The Collection
		Air canes represent the ultimate evolution of the pneumatic airgun firing mechanism which began with a structure identical to that of a true firearm flintlock and ended as an elegant, concealed mechanism, cocked by a separate key.
		One of the least known of antique airgun mechanisms has been called the barlock for the pivoted bar on the hammer which can be swung into position to strike or avoid the air valve release pin protruding from the top of the receiver.
		This mechanism is especially interesting to me because this is basically the mechanism found in the otherwise unique striker arrangement of an air rifle made about 1800 by Isaiah Lukens, the gun which probably is the air rifle carried by explorers Captains Lewis and Clark.
	www.beemans.net /collection.htm (6411 words)

	TherionArms - German flintlock axe/pistol (decorative) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Flintlock firearms were notoriously slow to reload and close-quarters fighting did not permit such a luxury.
		The pistol axe provided a weapon after the pistol was discharged and gave its owner a fighting chance.
		Operational flintlock mechanism - hammer locks and "fires" at half-cock and full cock positions, pan cover and frizzen swing open when struck by hammer.
	therionarms.com /reenact/therionarms_c508.html (89 words)

	Guns For Sale: GunsAmerica Gun Classifieds: Guns Browser
		Flintlock mechanism of Highland-Lock form with forward hooked sear and the back edge of the plate beveled for fitting in the stock.
		The original flintlock mechanism with a rounded gooseneck hammer with a hound's-tooth border engraving and a "BRAZIER" signature, for Robert Brazier of London (w.
		The original flintlock mechanism with an early form, rounded, banana lock and gooseneck hammer (cock spur missing tip) with a single thread border engraving and a bridle-less powder-pan.
	www.gunsamerica.com /fast.cgi?guncat=2121 (3907 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Flintlock Guns Work"
		The flintlock is the most venerable of the lock technologies.
		The flintlock mechanism, like the pendulum clock mechanism, is amazing from an innovation standpoint.
		These four pieces are all that the flintlock actually needs to accomplish its goal, but all flintlocks also solve the problems of loading the pan, protecting the pan from the weather and triggering the hammer, so there are three additional parts:
	people.howstuffworks.com /flintlock2.htm (806 words)

	DENIX PIRATE WEAPONRY
		The short bladed cutlass was at home among the rigging and cluttered decks of a sailing ship, where a longer sword would have been at a disadvantage and the pistol, having been discharged, could be tucked into the belt until an opportunity for reloading presented itself.
		FD1012 Pirate Flintlock Pistol "Flintlock" pistols were so called because the lock uses a flint to strike sparks into the priming pan when the trigger is pulled.
		FD1047 French Double-Barrelled Pirate Flintlock The double-barrelled flintlock pistol was favored among pirates and smugglers sailing the Spanish Main.
	www.northlandgifts.com /cgi-bin/northlandgifts/DENIX_PIRATE_WEAPONS.html (949 words)

	The Pioneer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I used walnut (base is basswood) and carved the flintlock rifle and right hand separate from the rest of the figure in order to get the grain running in the right direction for the rifle.
		This is a right perspective view showing the flintlock mechanism of the rifle.
		Richard Teter from South Carolina told me how he made the flintlock mechanism on a rifle of a Minuteman carving, and that helped some, but in no way compares to Richard's (seen at the Charlotte show).
	members.aol.com /knifecut/pioneer.html (282 words)

	Flags of the World - Online Catalog
		Early revolving flintlock firing mechanism pistol with full-length wood stock.
		Flintlock pistol by Bunney of London, circa 1770/80.
		Deluxe Brass Flintlock Pistol Unique three barrel design made by Lorezoni circa 1680 and carrying the Medici Arms seal.
	www.flagsoftheworld.com /Catalog/index.php?Page=13 (305 words)

	RiflesAntiquePercussion
		Originally, the musket utilized flintlock mechanism (M.1809), later on it was converted to percussion configuration (M.1809/1839).
		The conversion consisted of closing the touch hole, changing the breech plug to one having a hole bored in its face, with nipple screwed to the plug, at a slant, connecting with the hole at the rear.
		Originally, a flintlock musket that was later converted to percussion rifle by one of the Swiss arsenals.
	www.collectiblefirearms.com /RiflesAntiquePercussion.html (2499 words)

	Pirates flintlock pistol
		The pistol of the day was a flintlock mechanism exactly like the rifles, and a single shot was also loaded via the barrel.
		It would be fired and then thrown away to hopefully be retrieved after the fight.
		This rugged flintlock features wood stock adorned with skull and crossbones and steel finish barrel.
	www.iloveswords.com /PIR_flintPistol.html (244 words)

	flintlock rifle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The museum's founder, Louisville businessman Owsley Brown Frazier, lent the flintlock rifle, which is the only long gun owned by America's...
		Many pictures and videos help describe the flintlock mechanism and the guns that used it.
		FLINTLOCK US 18C KY Flintlock Rifle FLINTLOCK Double Barreled, 1700's to 1800's BAYONET French, 1763 USA 1850 Musket, 6 Shooter...
	www.bestgunsinfo.com /8/flintlock-rifle.html (221 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This piece is of additional interest because it has a very old barrel of probable 16th or 17th century date, and a British flintlock mechanism from a Brown Bess musket dated 1815, the year of the battle of Waterloo.
		The barrel is of finely worked damascus steel with strong watered patterning visible in recessed areas and along its sides, the end terminates with a lion or tigers head incorporating a brass sight as its nose.
		Additional chiselling in ridges, panels and florets along its length, the barrel is held to the stock with several shaped and engraved brass cappucines.
	www.ashokaarts.com /non-edged/no-18.htm (208 words)

	Flintlock Pistol Cutlass (large): Dead Men Tell No Tales.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This impressive cutlass, with its built-in flintlock pistol, would have offered a pirate double protection and would be very handy in battle or intimidating victims.
		The flintlock is non-firing, but the trigger mechanism is fully functional.
		This flintlock cutlass is very similar to one that was recently on display in museums in a touring pirate exhibition.
	www.deadmentellnotales.com /page/DM/PROD/fpcl (942 words)

	History of the Civil War
		A side effect of the percussion system of ignition used in rifles was that it enabled the revolver to become a practical proposition.
		Revolvers were developed using the flintlock mechanism but they were far from satisfactory.
		This mechanism of locking the frame and barrel together was the final modification.
	www.floridareenactorsonline.com /revolvers.htm (2791 words)

	1ABCStore.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With basic engineering combined with innovative mechanics and materials, the Model 17 quickly served the wants and needs of not just the Austrian Army, but any shooter with rank, a badge, or just the time for shooting enjoyment.
		At first glance of either the real Model 17 or the airsoft 17, the gun’s basic design lines are generic and boxy offering basic details such as serration, ejection port and sights.
		This combined use of metal with plastic seems to be the trend towards the modern handgun, and the 17 is a fine replica of the model that started it all.
	www.1abcstore.com /products_all.phtml?sec_id=26 (3119 words)

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