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Rifled flintlock or smoothbore flintlock

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I think the smoothbore cleans easier . . . My next build, if I can afford another, hopefully, will be a smooth rifle, probably a Chambers Isaac Haines because I am left-handed, but I have three rifles . . . if you plan to shoot mostly 50-70 yards a smooth rifle will work fine. I agree the smooth rifle may take a little more time to work up a load.
 
A mountain man diarist, I think Osborn Russell but don’t recall for sure wrote that Indians, French and Mexican Mountian men used fusils, smoothbores. While Americans always reached for a rifle
By MM times rifles were American preference and a rifle culture had appeared
However in 1847 a HBC man R.G.A. Levinge wrote that whites should follow Indian and French leads and get a smoothbore ‘which throws a ball true at sixty yards. It is the best for deer hunting as most shots in the woods are within that distance…. Patch tge ball; in 99 out of 100 a patched ball will fly nearly as true at 60 yards as one fired from the best rifle”
That is sort of true. At fifty yards a rifle will clover leaf a smooth closer to three to five inch groups
Shooting an x no smoothie can complete with a rifle. Shooting in the deer woods unless you’re taking long shots there is no differences. And your smoothie will take turkeys and small game as well.
I have four long guns now only one has got them rifle thingies
 

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