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I'm with you Sidney. I've built 2 LH Flintlocks and don't care to ever fire another RH gun. I too have read all that stuff about why I shouldn't build LH guns and basically I find the reasoning ridiculous.

Go here and buy some .015 ticking patches. This is real good material and goes good with a .395 ball. Wash it before you shoot with it. While your at this website look for Mr. Flintlock's Lube. I use it for practice and it makes loading easier. Eastern main also has a site not on ebay if you...

I guess I was thinking of Triple 7. Now if he had written Triple fg I would have gotten it right off. I can't recall seeing or hearing it as Triple f in the last 40 years, it's always had the g associated with it to avoid confusion. But then again, I don't get out much anymore as I have my own...

The main thing I want to add at this time is get rid of the Triple F! Flintlocks work best with real black powder. Most notably as the primeing powder. Fake black powder and fake news should both be outlawed. Try to shoot with someone who knows what he's doing, not someone who's fired a hundred...

Not to confuse the issue but Colrane sells a Turkey Choked barrel that is not the same as a jug choked barrel. It is not recommended to shoot round balls out of their turkey choked barrels.

Skychief, I know of a place where you will be welcome to discuss your success or failure to kill a turkey with a crossbow. Most of the people are of good nature and proper wit. Plus you are already a part of the family. Even if no one else will talk to you about a crossbow you are always welcome...

That's a really nice rifle Shiloh 1944. However, there is a better way to get that rifle shooting it's best. At 25 yards your rifle, off a bench should shoot 3 shots into one ragged hole. At 50 yards it should still shoot that one ragged hole. I would stop worrying about the sights and focus on...

George, it is George right? I looked up the post I referred to, it was posted in March 2019 and titled "Flint Lock Tuning". But the main question was how to determine if a lock was in "Balance" and how to fix it if it wasn't. Smartdog was the one who applied the 1/3 value on the opening of the...

You got that lock looking good PluggedNickel. I'm sure it will please you when the shooting starts. Personally I would ditch those agate flints and get some good black english flints from Track of the Wolf, or/and some blond french flints, and learn to knap your flints. I have never had a cut...

Why don't you just rebuild that really nice but not good enough flintlock yourself. No one else could ever provide you with a rifle that would satisfy you. Only you could satisfy you. I read your other posts about the Brown Bess and it seems like your a guy who can drill a vent hole with a...

In the mid to late 70's and early 80's one of my mentors had a .28 caliber flintlock. I would attend shoots and Rendezvouz and we'd shoot together, I was from central Georgia and he was from Tennessee. Some of you might remember him, his name was Charlie Haffner Sr. and we lost a great one when...

You should be proud of yourself. I used to shoot the SE Regionals and my best target was the 50 yard bull shot offhand. I managed to take a 3rd place one year with a group worse than yours. And we were all shooting rifles. In fact, you should make a trip across the water and attend some shooting...

Good examples Smo. Do you consider that disc to be tempered or heat treated? In Peter Alexander's book "The Gunsmith of Grenville County" on page 365 he makes this statement which is not word for word but close enough to get my point across; "My friend was plinking with a .45 caliber flintlock...

Learn to make your front sights and the dovetail will never be oversize or undersize as you will build the sight to fit the dove tail. I make my front sights with a mechanical lock, no brazing or welding required. I normally use a brass base and a steel blade. Example; I made a new rear sight...

Dave is right on. These guys are all builders of the best Kentucky rifles in the U.S.A, however it's best to call them all "American Longrifles", seeing as the originals came from places like Pennsylvania, Virginia and several other schools. And by the way, Dave Person himself belongs in that...

All new flintlock rifles will benefit from a little "tweaking" from someone who knows what he's doing. I built my rifles to shoot. The locks are tuned, triggers tuned, mainspring and frizzen spring balanced, the locks now are "in tune". The touch holes are tuned to my lock for consistency and...

What I wanted was a better balanced rifle. One that was easy to shoot and easy to carry and didn't feel like it was going to tip out of my hands in an elevated deer stand. But what really got the project moving was when I decided to do a ML hunt in New Mexico. So I did a good bit of research and...

I use/used Blackhand's method and built a rifle with all the slots pointing oriented butt to bore. It was a long aggravating process. Now 20 years later hardly any remain in alignment due to wood compression etc. I have learned to really like a rifle when the screw slots are misaligned, and...

WD 40 or oil has never worked well for me. I use the WD 40 and wipe all I can off then shoot them.

What have I learned?.....I will never consider the possibility of shooting even a little 4f as the main charge. I am just too stubborn to do that and I'm perfectly satisfied using 4f as prime and 2f and 3f for the main charge. I will never trust the results of someone else's test, unless...