Anyone else shoot Flintlock?

[user 53846]

My Corey Stewart, .58 caliber, smoothbore flintlock, "Lady Eilene"

 

[JeffG]

I only shoot flintlock. Left to right, Sitting Fox .54/28ga, Built from parts .50 rifle , Hatfield .45 .

 

[cynthialee]

I have, but I no longer have any flintlock firearms.

I just prefer caplocks

but if you have a good lock and good flint it is very satisfying isn't it?

 

[user 49399]

The Fusil de Chasse in .62 caliber is my squirrel gun. Our season opens next month!

The Tower pistol is a .69 caliber and I use it to shoot cardboard critters!

 

[brazosland]

My two favorites I keep in a display case in my entry way.

Top is a .44 Kentucky. Bottom is a .58. Both rifled.

 

[TrapperDude]

I have a flintlock Traditions Trapper. I got that just because I wanted to learn flintlocks after I'd learned how to operate BP revolvers. I need to thin out the main spring and frizzen spring a bit because it eats flints, but other than that, it surprises me with how little delay there is between the trigger break and ignition of the main charge. The delay is almost imperceptible with it.

 

[Alan O]

Yes!

 

[Alan O]

Yes!

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With three more on the way - two restorations and one MBS kit

 

[Alan O]

With three more on the way - two restorations and one MBS kit

that Kentucky isn't quite finished, either

 

[Birddog1911]

My two favorites I keep in a display case in my entry way.

Top is a .44 Kentucky. Bottom is a .58. Both rifled.

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Those are both stunning. Want to adopt a 50 year old son?

My British Dragoon. I'm building a French Dragoon, and have a Harper's Ferry pistol on the way. And...looking at a Queen Anne.

 

[brazosland]

Those are both stunning. Want to adopt a 50 year old son?

My British Dragoon. I'm building a French Dragoon, and have a Harper's Ferry pistol on the way. And...looking at a Queen Anne.

I’m a sucker for good wood. I hunt with all my guns. Killed deer with the .44 and finished a few hogs. The .58 is going to get carried a lot this fall.

 

[Bill Bryan]

I have a Pedersoli .50 cal Kentucky pistol and an Austin-Halleck .50 cal Hawken rifle. Now that I'm retired I'm starting to look at kits to build. Bill

 

[Timber Wolf]

My only flint pistol is a Traditions Trapper (I have its’ percussion brother as well). I came a little late (in life) to this rock-lock stuff, but it is addicting. In that vein, a nice flintlock pistol (or two) is on my list.

 

[appalichian hunter]

My two favorites I keep in a display case in my entry way.

Top is a .44 Kentucky. Bottom is a .58. Both rifled.

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Nice looking side arms.

 

[oldwood]

Shooting flint locks only for the last 30 years. Practice targets , and hunting.

 

[Compressorguy]

Yes, a Pedersoli Kentucky flintlock .50 pistol kit I built and customized. She’s a good sparker and shooter after tuning it. Flintlocks are very addicting!

 

[AZbpBurner]

While in High School and College, I'd shoot at a range adjacent to Delasware State Park. There was an elderly gent there who always brought out ana armload of flint rifles. They were all works of art & I thought he was a rifle builder testing a batch of new rifles before sending them to buyers. Upon closer look, it was obvious that they were all originals of the finest quality.
I was invited to fire several, and within about 6 months had fired several dozen flint rifles, never the same one twice. His collection was massive.
It wasn't until several decades layer that I got my first flint rifle, having already accumulated several percussion rifles.

 

[PathfinderNC]

I will be building the “Sparrow” flintlock smoothbore pistol soon (MBS kit) which is a copy of an original 18th Century pistol used by “Jack Sparrow” in that fun movie.
For now, I get by with my 15.5” barreled French Model 1733 Dragoon flintlock pistol, (which I made from another MBS kit).
I like it

 

[Compressorguy]

For now, I get by with my 15.5” barreled French Model 1733 Dragoon flintlock pistol, (which I made from another MBS kit).
I like it

The flow and design of that pistol is just beautiful! I would love to build one of those. Maybe my next build. I’ve been looking a lot at MBS site, models.

 

[Rifleman1776]

My two favorites I keep in a display case in my entry way.

Top is a .44 Kentucky. Bottom is a .58. Both rifled.

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Beautiful.