Looking at miquelets and pondering how they would look converted to percussion. This might have been found in California but I do not know if a conversion would have been. It was some time later maybe 65 years or so maybe more.

miquelet musket

The National Firearms Museum: Francisco Targarona Miquelet Escopeta

A percussion miquelet pistol to compare locks

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/...CD1F0C594E99E0

And another such object with info

2003.317.1

This all seems of little interest to others but it facinates me.

All firearms history prior to about 1920 is interesting......to me. Personally, the conversion looks hokey but I'm looking at it from a perspective 400 years after the Miquelet. I expect whoever had it converted was happy to have it.

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I'd like to know just how fast the percussion locks really are. It doe's take away from the beauty of an original but a statement of changing times. Anything before 1865 or so is my bag of goodies. A few more that escaped my attention...

http://www.littlegun.info/arme%20esp...0sant%20gb.htm

http://www.littlegun.info/arme%20esp...nacio%20gb.htm

http://www.littlegun.info/arme%20esp...guren%20gb.htm

They do look odd but appearance is largely a matter of what one is accustomed to seeing and we see a lot more English & French style locks than Spanish or Moorish. I guess the miquelet, with most of it's works on the outside of the lock plate, would offer the advantage that not so much wood need be removed and thus a stronger stock at what is generally the weak point. I doubt it would be possible to get a real "match grade" trigger pull with a Miquelet but I don't think they were building target rifles.

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