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Title: Who wants to watch 23 minutes of ballistic tests for wheellock pistols?
Post by: just Warren on June 13, 2021, 04:06:39 PM

You do. (https://youtu.be/tbkkfy6Wx1U)

That is if you might possibly be interested in a very thorough set of ballistic tests covering three types of ammunition.

Also includes instructionals on how to make ammo. 

Title: Re: Who wants to watch 23 minutes of ballistic tests for wheellock pistols?
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 13, 2021, 11:17:13 PM

He might get more views if his wheel-locks were chambered in .300 Ham'r, and suppressed. And don't forget the Punisher logos.

Can he use a brace with those?

Title: Re: Who wants to watch 23 minutes of ballistic tests for wheellock pistols?
Post by: just Warren on June 13, 2021, 11:52:16 PM

Quote from: Perd Hapley on June 13, 2021, 11:17:13 PM

Can he use a brace with those?

Yes, at one point I believe he was wearing suspenders.

Title: Re: Who wants to watch 23 minutes of ballistic tests for wheellock pistols?
Post by: 230RN on June 14, 2021, 08:59:37 AM

Double post.  Sorry

Title: Re: Who wants to watch 23 minutes of ballistic tests for wheellock pistols?
Post by: K Frame on June 14, 2021, 09:23:59 AM

I've always been fascinated with wheelocks. I've held one, but never fired one. That pair is absolutely gorgeous.

Always thought it would be cool as hell to have a wheelock rifle.

Title: Re: Who wants to watch 23 minutes of ballistic tests for wheellock pistols?
Post by: 230RN on June 14, 2021, 09:30:14 AM

When I smoked and had a machine shop, every once in a while  I'd toy with the idea of making a small entertainment wheelock out of the BIC cigarette lighter I always had in my pocket.

Twenty-five, maybe thirty bore, maybe 10-12" barrel seemed like the right scaling to the size of the BIC spark wheel.  The thing would have been to design / build the lockwork, then assemble a gun around it.

Never a burning desire, just one of those things that popped into my head every once in a while.  I did go so far as to take a BIC apart, but I found the spark wheel turned freely on an axis (driven by one's thumb), and I couldn't figure out how to rig a simple and durable spring-driving arrangement to aggressively spin it.

I'm sure I could have jinned up a way to do it or figured out an alternate scheme if I were assigned the task by a greedy whip-wielding profit-driven uncaring corporate overlord, but the personal desire kept approaching zero but never reached it as time went by. 

So now there's this thread, and I don't have a machine shop any more, nor do I smoke.

Terry

REF:

(https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/images/asymptote-horizontal.svg)

Title: Re: Who wants to watch 23 minutes of ballistic tests for wheellock pistols?
Post by: lee n. field on June 14, 2021, 10:46:13 AM

Quote from: just Warren on June 13, 2021, 04:06:39 PM

You do. (https://youtu.be/tbkkfy6Wx1U)

That is if you might possibly be interested in a very thorough set of ballistic tests covering three types of ammunition.

Also includes instructionals on how to make ammo.

Ah, the capandball channel.  Been a while since I watched any of his stuff.