Commodore Swab

Oh, I forgot to mention the double barrel blunderbuss as well.

that was last year, the knee gun is gone. The espignol will still be there but as a new addition will be a spanish trubuco blunderbuss along with a ripoll stocked blunderbuss pistol. Another on display will be a bit of an abomination but its already spoken for.

Depends on the supplier. Ive been waiting for a lock I ordered for a gun that I ordered before PiP of '09.

Would it be possible for a crew to get a ship? Sort of put those used to shooting together together?

Just playing devils advocate for a second . . .

One might draw similarities in boating, do people wear footware when boating today (small pleasure craft not yachts) and the answer would be for the majority "no" once on board the shoes come off. However, the same people will wear shoes when engaging in something like fishing to help protect their feet should a stray hook etc wind up on deck. Rewind a few centuries if I had shoes I would definatly wear them if there was a possibility of combat for protection.

I apperciate it should it be needed, email sent.

Is there somebody who might be able to help take a small trailer down to the fort thursday morning? Would be trailering from Key Largo to Key West. Sansanee has her interview in Miami at 11AM and I'm not sure we can get there in time to setup. I have friends that can help layout and start setting up the tent so I don't have to work in the dark but I need to get the stuff there.

Swab

For those interested . . .

Double Barrel Bronze Blunderbuss-$2500

Bronze Swivel Espignol Blunderbuss-$1800

Bronze Spanish Blunderbuss Pistol-$1000

1728 French Musket (tuned and reworked india piece)-$800

Short Shoulder Steel Blunderbuss (tuned and reworked india piece) with sling-$650

Dragoon Pistol (Common "tower" pistol) rebuilt with new quality lock-$450

Short Shoulder Steel Blunderbuss ("untouched" india piece)-$400

Miquelet from the riffle shoppe

I called them a while back they couldnt locate any mentioned their website did not reflect their inventory and said they would call back if they located any. I never heard from them.

sorry

As a sneak peak to see what is in the works provided the world doesn't end for next year. . .

For those interested I tested my "safe" musket this morning (safe in that it has a flash guard and frizzen stall) using FF instead of the regular priming powder and these are the results. . .

Using my "reliability test" the musket has a tuned lock that typically will flash the pan 20/22 or better. Using the older flint that is in the musket and the flash guard and FF she scored 11/20 with the first misfire on shot 4. Washing the lock to clear away the residue and removing the guard (no knapping of the flint) and simply changing the powder and removing the flash guard the score went up to 14/20 the first misfire happening on shot 8 (remember the flint has now been sparked over 40 times without knapping). By simply brushing away the residue and finally knapping the flint the score went up to 17/20 the first misfire on shot 11. By the time the "test" was finished the flint had been used/sparked over 60 times and if you remember it was not a new flint when the test began. Believeing that the chance of misfires is so much greater with a musket firing FF with a guard and then testing to confirm I will not be taking my musket into the field knowing that I will be dealing with a less than reliable weapon. At Fisherman's Village this year all the flintlocks combined averaged over 90% fire rate, at Stuart we scored 100% in the weapons demonstrations (there were misfires in the compettition to see who could score the highest before a misfire, once you misfired you were out), proper priming powder was used without flash guards being installed.

How are the screw holes? I would love to use some if its sutible?

Heck our tent is 10*14 with a 20*28 fly

How about we talk in kw?

To help "age" your flash guard polish it bright removing all traces of the coating thats on it, install it and flash your pan a half dozen times (FF would be a good powder to use to make sure things are working smoothly for the fort) then just wash it off when you clean the rest of your lock and you will get a decent patina in time

nadda

Maybe if the participants refuse to perform a battle at all under these restraints, a clear message would be sent?

An argument could be made that you are not performing in the battle due to safety reasons. A flash guard makes cleaning much more difficult, can make it difficult to get a prick in to clean the vent, and can affect lock operation if the lock was not designed to have one. Igniting FF in the pan promotes faster fouling. Combined these promote misfires in a weapon that otherwise would not misfire. Using the same cartridge to fire and prime from you are either having to prime first (which can lead to an accident that happend very recently in St. Augustine) or hop you saved enough powder to prime after loading. If the pan flashed but not the charge then you will need to break open another cartridge for use as priming powder throwing off the amount of powder going down the barrel.

Just some thoughts on giving a reason other than "I don't want to install a flash guard and frizzen stall"

Not tourists, no flint in the weapon.

I think I got you, I will not be modifying my double barrel as it also has internal screws. I also feel that it would make the weapon unsafe, I want the blast going away from the gun not up and above a primed pan. My 2 large blunderbusses also will not be modified as I will not modify an original lock to accecpt a flash guard. My snaphaunce musket would take alot of work to form a flash guard do to the design of the lock There is one there of a sort already) but would not accecpt a frizzen stall due to the nature of the how the frizzen is attached.

I do have a musket that has the required equipment because if somebody were to buy it there is a chance that that piece may be used in a military formation, so yes I could shoot but have no loaner weapons for my friends.

You are thinking about mounting it to which screw? The frizzen spring screw and hide the frizzen spring and pan behind the guard?

My bad, I failed to notice that this wasn't in Fort Taylor when it was pulled up under recent postings.

I apperciate a final ruling regarding flash guards

If you would like to schedule it in we will do a weapons talk covering the development of the flintlock from wheel lock to GAoP flintlock with the weapons to cover it from wheellock, miquelet, snaphaunce, etc. In exchange we would rather not do gate duty or town crier (just Sansanee and Myself) as a part of Cutters crew. This helps to fill the day so that our/cutters crew may not need to do as many shifts at night or as crier that would be very nice.