IN LINE muzzle loaders were new kids on the block….. - HuntNetwork

Flint lock hammerless in line <strong>muzzle</strong>loader shown in W.W. Greeners book
The Gun and its development.
The receiver of this firearm is of chiselled brass, the hammer is fixed on a
hinge and kept in position over the flash pan by means of a spring; the
flash pan is at the base of the barrel in the body. The flint is fixed to a
plunger working in the body and is actuated by means of a spiral spring.
To cock the gun the flint is drawn back by means of the knob underneath
the barrel, there is a notch in the plunger which engages the sear.
In the Paris museum there are two other examples, one not differing
from the one illustrated in Greeners book, but is better made.
In 1812 Jean Samuel Pauley patented a “superior mechanism for the
firing of firearms” it was a plunger type of firearm, with another following
in 1816, U.K. patent # 4026, most modern plunger type <strong>muzzle</strong> <strong>loaders</strong>
are based on this design
As you can see even in these “early" gunmaking days the
advantages of an uncomplicated mechanism <strong>were</strong> appreciated.
One therefore asks oneself as to why there are so few <strong>IN</strong> L<strong>IN</strong>ES <strong>muzzle</strong>
<strong>loaders</strong> currently available in South Africa other than those excellent ones
made right here in South Africa by Mkonto Manufacturing cc which are
currently made using Pauley’s design ?.