Col. Batguano
75 Cal.
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I've noticed over the last few years here that the interest (gauging by the total number of posts) is trending more and more toward flint than percussion. About 2-3 years ago, Percussion to Flintlock posts ran about 2:1, and now they're 176K : 159K. Similarly the General ML'er section ran about 3:2 relative to the Builder's Bench section. Now they're about even.
Does that connote a general trend in ML'ing toward flint guns? Or, that more people are building (or posting here), and most of the builders are building flint guns rather than cap guns?
Another reason could be that people tend to graduate "to" flint guns after they do the cartridge gun and then the cap gun thing. It could be that the ML'ing community is getting older / more mature, and we aren't attracting more (new) people in to it?
Just throwing it out there for general discussion.
Does that connote a general trend in ML'ing toward flint guns? Or, that more people are building (or posting here), and most of the builders are building flint guns rather than cap guns?
Another reason could be that people tend to graduate "to" flint guns after they do the cartridge gun and then the cap gun thing. It could be that the ML'ing community is getting older / more mature, and we aren't attracting more (new) people in to it?
Just throwing it out there for general discussion.
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