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[cyten]

Originally Posted by David R

Percussion conversion?

no bolster, drum, or nipple visible and the frizzen still intact.

[David R]

Originally Posted by cyten

no bolster, drum, or nipple visible and the frizzen still intact.

One of the early options was a tube containing fulminate that was stuck in the vent. The Hapsburg Empire went a long way down that road as it looked like an easy conversion from Flintlocks. Read all about it here.https://capandball.com/the-story-of-...nition-system/

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by David R

... Read all about it here.https://capandball.com/the-story-of-...nition-system/

Very interesting. Austria-Hungary may well have Turkish flintlocks they converted. Seems the problem was NOT with the tubes, but with keeping them together with the paper cartridges.


First rule of explosives is 'keep the explosives and the primers/caps/fuses separate until JUST before use.

[David R]

I was thinking more along the lines of a "local" adopting and adapting the tube fire system as an easy to do and easy to reverse upgrade to the gun he has.