What Made You Choose Flintlock?

Me too, I just sent him some accuracy info about Trap Doors. I initially posted it here but it is an off topic Rifle so I deleted my post and sent it PM.

My love for ML in general and flintlocks in particular, started with:
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You to have to live in a different country!
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Well, Disney's Davy Crockett series back in the 1950's certainly got my attention, coonskin hat and all. When I retired from teaching in 2001 I bought myself a Cabelas' Hawken flinter in .54 caliber as a retirement present. Shoot it from the bench frequently and have gotten quite a bit better at the various flint techniques. Put a Lyman peep on it to help my aging eyes. Love the set trigger. Sometimes carry it while sitting on a stump waiting for a deer to go by but haven't seen hair or horns to shoot at. I'm sure there are better locks and more accurate traditional guns but it has given me a lot of pleasure.

Merry Christmas - Tom

Where I grew up in Iowa, no one used ML rifles in the '60's or early '70's, so my first rifle was a .50 cal. TC Hawken in January 1972. My next two muzzle loaders were an original Percussion M1856 .41 cal. Swiss Federal Rifle then a really sweet original .36 cal. half stock percussion rifle.

I owned the first two before I met the guy who became my best friend in life and he was a dyed in the wool Flintlock Shooter with a really nice repro Pre Revolutionary War rifle. Even though I loved to look at that rifle, I strongly resisted the urge to go flintlock for about another couple of years.

Then he took me to Friendship, IN on the Primitive Range and I got interested in doing a Continental Marine impression both for shooting in competition and reenacting. Well, there were no percussion guns during the AWI, so I had to learn flintlocks. He also loaned me a .45 caliber Post AWI Flint Rifle to shoot in competition, so I finally became addicted. I next owned a "Charleville" Musket that we assembled from kits to replicate M1812/16 Muskets to do Brush's Independent Company of Ohio Militia for War of 1812 reenacting.

In the 1980's, I "strayed from the fold" for about 8 years while doing WBTS reenacting, but "came back home" to the 18th century a couple years after I retired from the Marine Corps in 1996.

I loved doing reenacting as a Private Soldier in the Major's Coy of the 42nd RHR, the Black Watch.

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Yep, I used to wear the redcoat too :grin:
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When they first came out with a special after Christmas deer season here in Pa. it was flintlock only so I bought a TC Hawken and learned how to shoot it.

Advantage of a flintlock? Don't need caps and I don't see a disadvantage.

Historical accuracy never entered into it. I like plain rifles with quality components. Another season is upon us and not many left at my age.

Buy a few of both and don't choose one over the other

More seriously, though, flinters are just dang cool.

Never owned a percussion, never owned a factory made muzzleloader, have no appeal...

I bought my first flintlock in 1977, been hunting with them ever since...Grew up with a love of history, went to Williamsburg quite a bit when younger, grew up watching Fess Parker in Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett...When states started coming out with muzzleloading seasons I knew what was being sold weren't the real deal...So, I waited a few years until I could buy what they really used, never looked back...

Like "walks with fire", I too, wanted to participate in PA.'s initial flintlocks only season. And, I started with a TC Hawken as well.

My problem was dealing with a right-handed flintlock as a lefty, and I never overcame the flinching as I moved up to a right-handed Hatfield. I couldn't hit a barn door from the inside!

When I could finally afford a custom left-handed flintlock, my enjoyment increased immensely, and I've been accumulating left-handed flintlocks ever since.

I think I need to build one more, a lefty Jaeger in .58 or .62 cal. The results may not be authentic, but I'll get over it.

I don't tramp the hills as well as I used to, but the day after Christmas will find me once again toting my .54 Yorktown along some south-facing Pa. side hill. Pennsylvania's Flintlock Only Season is truly special. Let's hope it remains un-changed any further. :thumbsup:

I always been a History nut. I started off shooting caplocks, but wanting to step back further in time I tried shooting a flintlock and after shooting my first flintlock I was hooked.
I have sold off all my caplocks except one and I now own 3 flintlocks.
I do enjoy the challenge of shooting and hunting with my flintlocks.

Besides always wanting one....this last lil ammo scare convinced me that caps may not always be around...rocks will always be around.

Got rid of all my caplocks.

Ya, I hear that, I lucked out and found a place online that was LOADED with caps for 2.99 and bought 2K 10 & 11 then posted here. He had like 200K. 2-3 months they was gone. Like the .22....they'll come back.

This is true. If the good Lord meant us to shoot percussions, he'd of spread caps all over the ground instead of flint!

WELL how I got in to flintlock one of my friend had a kit he got at a garage sale and he asked me to put it together so since I had it I had to try it Hook Line & Sinker now I have three and two of them I made and one cva mountain rifle :idunno:

Smokey Plainsman said:

This is true. If the good Lord meant us to shoot percussions, he'd of spread caps all over the ground instead of flint!

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Smokey Plainsman said:

This is true. If the good Lord meant us to shoot percussions, he'd of spread caps all over the ground instead of flint!

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If you're lucky, there's the Chipius Flintei Maximus bush! :rotf:
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