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cordite
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Re: werndl flintlock
      06/03/18 01:21 AM

Thank you lancaster. I have also heard about these old guns being converted in liege for africa. I think Bannerman's used to sell this stuff, back in the 1920s, for just a few dollars a piece.

It would be interesting to learn more about this practice. The economics are fascinating. Someone took an obsolete werndl rifle, removed the barrel and entire rotating breech block assembly, attached a smooth bore barrel, added a flintlock cock and attached a pan, frizzen and spring to the lock. All this to make an even more obsolete rifle whose only merit was no longer being dependant on fixed ammunition.

Just think about a place in the 20th century where a flintlock was preferred over a cartridge rifle and its expensive and hard to obtain ammunition. It would have been easier to convert these to percussion but even the prospect of obtaining percussion caps was not attractive.

Edited by cordite (06/03/18 01:34 AM)

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* werndl flintlock cordite 05/03/18 10:51 AM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock lancaster   05/03/18 06:20 PM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock cordite   06/03/18 01:21 AM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock cordite   07/03/18 03:45 AM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock DarylSModerator   07/03/18 04:19 AM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock lancaster   15/03/18 01:26 AM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock lancaster   13/04/19 02:58 PM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock Heelerau   21/05/19 10:31 PM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock DarylSModerator   22/05/19 02:21 AM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock lancaster   22/05/19 03:59 AM
. * * Re: werndl flintlock DarylSModerator   05/03/18 11:56 AM

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