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  1. LeftHandGuy

    Video of Rifles at the Revolutionary WAR museum

    That's a shame, it really is a very good museum. My two sons (8 and 10 y/o) love it. Last time I was there (summer this year) they had a bunch of their reproduction flintlocks out on the floorplate and I got to handle their P1776 repro and another curator delighted my boys by allowing them to...
  2. LeftHandGuy

    Barry Lyndon movie fakery.

    Yes they were (the same extras). In a funny twist of fate they were actually Ukrainian Army conscripts and the filming was done in Crimea... A slice of my childhood, I watched them when they were broadcast in the UK and I am enjoying showing them to my kids now. I can live with the silliness...
  3. LeftHandGuy

    Left handed flintlock question

    They didn't have the polio vaccine either, but I take your point. You pay your money and make your choice. I always wear eyepro at least in part because I am already blind in one eye and hunting and shooting are my hobby and passion. But, whilst I always wear earpro at the range, I hunt without...
  4. LeftHandGuy

    Left handed flintlock question

    Some better than others I guess? I am left handed and left eye dominant and cannot shoot a projectile safely from the right shoulder (although for period re-enacting I am fine). Some people though can shoot competently from either shoulder, and I am sure that would have been the case back as far...
  5. LeftHandGuy

    Left handed flintlock question

    Every combination you can think of. RH locks off the left shoulder, off the right shoulder, double guns off either shoulder, and the odd exclusive genuine left hand lock off the left shoulder. And of course, for those who fought in close order with flintlocks had pans burning in every direction...
  6. LeftHandGuy

    Left handed flintlock question

    The first time my mainspring broke I was lining up on a deer. It was January 2020, and it was cold. I don't know how cold, but my phone died and my water bottle froze solid. Anyway, the rifle was obviously loaded, and I did seriously consider using a a naked flame to shoot the barrel empty (not...
  7. LeftHandGuy

    Left handed flintlock question

    That's good advice for any shooting!
  8. LeftHandGuy

    Left handed flintlock question

    I am utterly left handed. When I bought my first muzzleloader it was with a left handed lock because I was was used to modern bolt actions where a dedicated LH action makes a real difference and I felt like I needed a LH gun. Subsequently I have had the chance to shoot right handed flintlocks...
  9. LeftHandGuy

    Pattern 1776 Rifle

    AFAIK the only attested survivors are from the 800 made in England. As @Comfortably_Numb suggests you could use the TRS parts list for the P1776 http://www.therifleshoppe.com/catalog_pages/english_arms/(509).htm But sub in the different parts from a contemporary Jaeger kit like this one...
  10. LeftHandGuy

    Pattern 1776 Rifle

    TBH I don't think they feared rifles any more than the Patriots feared bayonets. When they saw how they could be used effectively (from the Patriots and the various rifle armed jaegers they had fighting for them) they got their own into production very fast. Modern military procurement could...
  11. LeftHandGuy

    Newbie from NE PA

    Ditto
  12. LeftHandGuy

    Pattern 1776 or Baker kit

    I do wonder if there is a little more to it than that - I remember reading somewhere that left handers like me are over-represented amongst murderers, despots and other ne'er-do-wells - but maybe that's just a consequence of the frustration enjoined by having to exist in a world with such...
  13. LeftHandGuy

    Pattern 1776 or Baker kit

    Indeed, but somehow SinisterGuy might create the wrong impression of me! Actually I have come to believe that left hand flintlocks are something of an unnecessary distraction, I am as left handed as can be, but I have found that my accuracy is the same whichever side the lock is on...
  14. LeftHandGuy

    Pattern 1776 or Baker kit

    I love his channnel! May have watched that video once (or twice maybe!)
  15. LeftHandGuy

    Pattern 1776 or Baker kit

    Thanks for sharing that @tsmgguy it's gorgeous! I think I have more or less convinced myself that one of these two builds will end up being my flintlock season gun....
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