• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades

Anyone else shoot Flintlock?

Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Joined
Jul 1, 2022
Messages
195
Reaction score
528
My Corey Stewart, .58 caliber, smoothbore flintlock, "Lady Eilene"
 

Attachments

  • received_363198135978259.jpeg
    received_363198135978259.jpeg
    185.6 KB · Views: 2
I have a flintlock Traditions Trapper. I got that just because I wanted to learn flintlocks after I'd learned how to operate BP revolvers. I need to thin out the main spring and frizzen spring a bit because it eats flints, but other than that, it surprises me with how little delay there is between the trigger break and ignition of the main charge. The delay is almost imperceptible with it.
 

Attachments

  • 20220713_195705.jpg
    20220713_195705.jpg
    2.4 MB · Views: 0
Those are both stunning. Want to adopt a 50 year old son? 🤣

My British Dragoon. I'm building a French Dragoon, and have a Harper's Ferry pistol on the way. And...looking at a Queen Anne.

I’m a sucker for good wood. I hunt with all my guns. Killed deer with the .44 and finished a few hogs. The .58 is going to get carried a lot this fall.
 
While in High School and College, I'd shoot at a range adjacent to Delasware State Park. There was an elderly gent there who always brought out ana armload of flint rifles. They were all works of art & I thought he was a rifle builder testing a batch of new rifles before sending them to buyers. Upon closer look, it was obvious that they were all originals of the finest quality.
I was invited to fire several, and within about 6 months had fired several dozen flint rifles, never the same one twice. His collection was massive.
It wasn't until several decades layer that I got my first flint rifle, having already accumulated several percussion rifles.
 
I will be building the “Sparrow” flintlock smoothbore pistol soon (MBS kit) which is a copy of an original 18th Century pistol used by “Jack Sparrow” in that fun movie.
For now, I get by with my 15.5” barreled French Model 1733 Dragoon flintlock pistol, (which I made from another MBS kit).
I like it 😃
 

Attachments

  • C8E9E815-0BDE-4175-9FA4-8DD040B3B835.jpeg
    C8E9E815-0BDE-4175-9FA4-8DD040B3B835.jpeg
    2.6 MB · Views: 0
Back
Top