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Flintlock shooters...
hissinggoose
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Well, I screwed up and shot my first flinty. Now I gotta have one!! (you guys know how that is...) Went home to Beaufort NC last wkend to the annual "historical festival",etc, and they had a couple of great old guys giving a demonstration on muskets, and couldn't turn down the opportunity to touch one off. I shoot an in-line for deer, and have shot a Hawken or two in cap lock, but the "snap...hiss....BOOM" really did something to me!!
So....I'm looking at buying a flintlock pistol for starters (handgun freak) and later a long gun. Can any of yoose guys give a noob some direction as to what/where I should look for a quality flint gun? Any to avoid? Any related advice you could throw my way is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Mike (with the freshly singed beard smelling of sulphur...)[:D]
So....I'm looking at buying a flintlock pistol for starters (handgun freak) and later a long gun. Can any of yoose guys give a noob some direction as to what/where I should look for a quality flint gun? Any to avoid? Any related advice you could throw my way is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Mike (with the freshly singed beard smelling of sulphur...)[:D]
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Flintlocks are kind of a crap shoot. I shot a few as a kid and got used to the click, hiss, bang, then recently bought an old Jukar KY pistol on auction. The lock and touch hole setup on that one is almost as fast as a perc. I'd like to see the slow motion video of that one going off, I doubt the pan is even empty before the main charge ignites.
I was checking out some of the Pedersoli wares on line....they have some neat looking stuff. Being from the Outer Banks area, the "pirate guns" have always had a special appeal to me. I gotta squirrel a few bucks away to scratch this itch...
Following through should give you good practice for skeet and trap shooting.
You've got to have character to hold a flintlock on moving game after the flash goes off in your face and until it fires.
Following through should give you good practice for skeet and trap shooting.
I took a friend out shooting a pair of flints some time back. One, a Jaeger .50 replica shot well. The other, a .45 KY replica always had problems due to a weak mainspring, soft frizzen or both. Last round wouldn't fire no matter what. No worm to pull the ball so he held it on target and I stubbed a Marlboro in the pan.
He hit the 8 ring, I had powder burns under my fingernails for a week.
Mine I can really set my hiss....booom diration by using less powder in the pan im still trying to get it down to his.boom im using like a percusion cap full of powder right now in the pan all up against the barrel and want to cut that in half, she fires every single time.
Also get the factory precut agat flints, there not real flint I dont think but they last forever compaired to real flint. Real flints you end up haveing to dink with constantly to get to spark.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=56868
I enjoy my flintlock more than I ever have enjoyed any other bp gun, seems to be more reliable to me as well than even inlines, at least the inline that use percussion caps. The new ones that use primers kick butt. But arnt that fun to shoot
Mine is a cheep * traditions I actualy had to re-fit the lock a bit after getting cus they had it screwed up but for 250 its still worth it, and is accurate. Bought it from sportsmansguide
Looks like they still have them to. http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=145873
I also made a custom brass ramrod for mine the stock factory ones on these are a bit to short for my taste and way to bendy "there made out of like fibre glass"
Nice pics of the Hawkens! I've always loved the looks with the double triggers. Do they still make those in kit form? I think it would be a fun project to finish one out.
A place in wisconsin makes kits of them, I have one out in the garage I have been working on just waiting on a part. I think trackofthewolf.com may have kits for them as well but I didnt want to start with one of there kits because of the extra work involved, however turns out this kit was harder than one of theres