Muzzleloadera only have 2 moving parts. The lock and triggers. The thing is unless it was an old cheap rifle you’ll have 2-300 dollars of parts easily in it, plus more for the wood.
On a flint lock, the lock is the side plate with the mainspring, sear , frizzen and hammer. The pan is incorporated into the lock plate. The trigger stays in the stock via a pin. Percussion, you have a nipple tapped into the barrel, instead of a pan and frizzen.
OK. Let's get technical. More moving parts then you imagine on a Flintlock. While the side plate incorporates a "lock", or sear to hold the hammer back the name is a misnomer. and a lock is a correct name for the breach plug, or as on a modern arm a bolt, trapdoor, falling block. rolling block. Here is a list of moving parts on a Flintlock. The cock, vice screw, upper jaw, flint, frizzen, frizzen spring, mainspring, tumbler, bridle, sear, sear spring, and that doesn't count a ball mold, or needed ramrod to operate the gun/rifle. Of course a percussion arm has a fewer parts, but still far more then two.
Muzzleloadera only have 2 moving parts. The lock and triggers. The thing is unless it was an old cheap rifle you’ll have 2-300 dollars of parts easily in it, plus more for the wood.
Two moving parts ? C'mon man. Who told you that. The one thing a muzzle loader doesn't have is a lock.
Everything from 1776 did. Side locks where the norm.
On a flint lock, the lock is the side plate with the mainspring, sear , frizzen and hammer. The pan is incorporated into the lock plate. The trigger stays in the stock via a pin. Percussion, you have a nipple tapped into the barrel, instead of a pan and frizzen.
OK. Let's get technical. More moving parts then you imagine on a Flintlock. While the side plate incorporates a "lock", or sear to hold the hammer back the name is a misnomer. and a lock is a correct name for the breach plug, or as on a modern arm a bolt, trapdoor, falling block. rolling block. Here is a list of moving parts on a Flintlock. The cock, vice screw, upper jaw, flint, frizzen, frizzen spring, mainspring, tumbler, bridle, sear, sear spring, and that doesn't count a ball mold, or needed ramrod to operate the gun/rifle. Of course a percussion arm has a fewer parts, but still far more then two.