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You can also file your rear sight down a bit.

I make mine for my .54s out of half inch diameter dowel rods...One, I used a turned wooden handle, the last i made a handle from a deer antler, did the same for my short starter...

Welcome from the Piedmont of NC, Randolph County...

Yep, i have 3 flintlocks, 2 in .54 caliber and one in .40...Each has it's own shooting pouch and horn...How else do your kin know how to shoot them once you pass?? :dunno:

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It's based on the number of posts you have.

I like to move through the woods and listen for them barking as well as watching for them, then stalk but i also stop and wait in known productive areas so it's a mixture...I use my .40 Bob Watts rifle, loaded with 30grs Goex FFF...

Looks like some good fire starter flints in there, do you have a fire starter steel??

From the late '80s until Covid, i would dress up and give talks on Colonial America...One school even had Colonial Days where we had outdoor demonstrations, candle making, music, doctoring, wagon rides, soap making, cooking, etc...Well, we no longer do any of these, Covid may have shut it down...

Welcome from the Piedmont of NC...Good luck, enjoy and go slow, so much more info on putting these together than there was years ago..

A Lancaster would be accurate as well.

After only one shot?? I reload, prime and am ready for a finishing shot if needed... Go to the range, see how many shots you can take without doing anything different...Take a range rod just in case your final load is too tight to ram down with your ramrod...What I do is have the first 2 balls...

A well know account from Colonel George Hanger on the accuracy of American Riflemen... Colonel Tarleton and myself were standing a few yards out of a wood, observing the situation of a part of the enemy which we intended to attack. There was a rivulet in the enemy’s front, and a mill on it...

I clean at the range, before I go home, then clean again at home, then check again every few days for rust...I like to leave a lightly oiled patch in the bore for a few days after use..

Reminds me of the goat that ate dynamite ...Mayberry... :)

Welcome!! Plenty of flintlocks come up for sale on this site from time to time...Good luck!

A Ferguson..

Can you return it to the supplier?

It's a .50 .490 ball, .018 or .015 patch with lube or spit and a target load of 50-60grs FFF Goex and you will be good to go...

It's been passed down though the ages that's how they did it years ago...