Just an aside concerning the last picture attached in post #10:
The cock and steel of this ca. 1655-60 flintlock carbine are absolutely in the correct angle for mid-17th c. half-cock position demonstrating the malfunction of the superimposed-load flintlock gun in the above post (repeated here)!
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Last edited by Matchlock; 11th December 2013 at 08:39 PM.
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