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  1. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    I would - but he's right handed...
  2. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    The touchhole liner is whatever was OEM to the rifle - which I confess I haven't ever measured - I do take it out when I deepclean the rifle. The frizzen sparks well whenever I suspect it of not sparking well!I started out with Traditions branded flints bought with the rifle, and traded up to...
  3. LeftHandGuy

    Best Brand of Black Powder

    Indeed - never even considered using the stuff - just curious about it really. Presumably all the other non-BP BP substitutes are essentially comparable?
  4. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    I had literally no idea what to expect - it may have been the cheapest, but it was also the only flintlock - certainly the only lefthanded one. Now I know more and wish I had known how close I am to Dixons in Mifflinburg PA - I'd have gone there instead. Wish I'd found this forum earlier for...
  5. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    Thanks to everybody who's replied to me with opinions and suggestions - they are all useful in helping me decide what to do next.
  6. LeftHandGuy

    Best Brand of Black Powder

    I hope the OP will forgive the slight derail here, but would anyone care to explain just why Pyrodex is so bad, and therefore why does anyone use it at all? My flintlock is marked up BP or Pyrodex, so it would presumably be capable of functioning. I know it’s harder to ignite in a flintlock...
  7. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    Nobody who grew up in the UK could read this and not think the same thing:
  8. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    That would figure. Once I'm through the flintlock hunting season I'll make some phone calls and find out. I do have an attachment to the gun, it was the first new gun I ever bought, so It'd be cool to improve it. Much to chew on!
  9. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    Interesting - I'm sure you're correct about it being "easy" to cut a dovetail. Maybe I'll have the guts to try it after this year's hunting season! About this time last year I was seriously giving thought to these: https://rmcoxyoke.com/product/rmc-aim-right-closed-peep-sights/ I put a Skinner...
  10. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    Thanks for the link - I don't see a LH lock listed but it's good to know there's a few companies genuinely making locks over here.
  11. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    Thanks - you wouldn't happen to have any links for the locks you're suggesting would you? Or even sights? I like the idea of the replacing the rubber pad with leather. That is legitimately something I could do myself. The thing that defeats me with the sights is the front post being screw...
  12. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    Sadly they are screwed in place, otherwise I would have done it already.
  13. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    Yeah - you're probably right! Of course what I really (really) want is a fantasy rifle that doesn't exist and I can't afford - but would be a Pattern 1776 Rifle mirror imaged to be truly left-handed. I would make do with a LH Baker for which TRS offer a kit, although I don't have the cash for...
  14. LeftHandGuy

    Traditions Deerhunter - is it worth attempting to improve it?

    So my first flintlock - bought during 2016. Traditions Deerhunter left handed. Has the wooden stock, rubber buttpad, Williams Fibreoptic sights, plastic ramrod etc Sorry about the picture - it's the only thing I have with it in and I had to crop-out all the verboten items.... It has some...
  15. LeftHandGuy

    New Anglo-American member

    Already have a good feeling about it!
  16. LeftHandGuy

    New Anglo-American member

    Thank you. PA suits me very well indeed - and the PA flintlock hunting season is absolutely what has drawn me into muzzle-loader shooting in general and this community in particular.
  17. LeftHandGuy

    New Anglo-American member

    I’m sure it’s going to happen!
  18. LeftHandGuy

    New Anglo-American member

    I’ll take that!
  19. LeftHandGuy

    New Anglo-American member

    Ahh, a true icon of Anglo-American food culture. Nothing else in a can beats Heinz baked beans 😉
  20. LeftHandGuy

    New Anglo-American member

    I’m in good company then!
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