Curious about Flintlocks

[Scorpmann3518]

Never had a flintlock before but the more I look at them and read about it the more interested I get. Heard guys tell it was a load of fun.

 

[sepiatone]

They're tons of fun ( and quite addicting). It's pretty much all I shoot these days.

 

[rabjr]

You will want to take a good long hard look before you decide to go this route...because once you do, theres no turning back and no remedy/cure for this affliction except another one, another one and one more...so on. :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[jamesthomas]

Once you get a flintlock there's no turning back! More addicting than anything.

 

[Scorpmann3518]

Only ever shot cap and ball but there is something about the way the flintlocks look. Not rushing the rifle I buy to get back shooting but certainly going to look into flintlocks more as well.

 

[hanshi]

It will certainly change the way you look at black powder shooting. It is truly "going native". You can just slip on another cap and shoot a percussion. But a flintlock requires more of and from you. Switching to flint ceases to be a mechanical "thing" that behaves the same over and over each and every time. A flintlock is almost a living, breathing creature that you have to bond with, get to know. You will have to like each other. Flint is about all I ever shoot. If you've never been a hoarder before, you will with flintlocks.

 

[ApprenticeBuilder]

It will certainly change the way you look at black powder shooting. It is truly "going native". You can just slip on another cap and shoot a percussion. But a flintlock requires more of and from you. Switching to flint ceases to be a mechanical "thing" that behaves the same over and over each and every time. A flintlock is almost a living, breathing creature that you have to bond with, get to know. You will have to like each other. Flint is about all I ever shoot. If you've never been a hoarder before, you will with flintlocks.

Interesting analogy, and very acurate. :hatsoff:

 

[Scorpmann3518]

After looking at pictures and watching videos of them being fired there is something magical about them.

 

[ohio ramrod]

WARNING ! DANGER ! FLINTLOCKS ARE ADDICTIVE. Caps guns will work with the substitute powders but Flintlocks require Black powder. And it is highly addictive! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[Tony Logan]

Take your time on that one. I highly recommend it. You might go out and get a rifle and absolutely fall in love, and then you get curious about about all this smoothbore talk, You might just start with a smoothbore, that way you have more options and wont always be wanting one.

 

[hounddog]

Gents, I got into flinter primarly due to my living history reinacting. For the earlier periods a percussion wont do. Early was primarily a perc hunter even though I had a couple of flinters and do harvest deer with them. Nowdays I am about 50 50 with equal numbers of flint firearms and percussion. I enjoy shooting my flinters but I will never completely abandon my percussion guns either. That is what works for me so that is what I do I use both types. yours hounddog

 

[MSW]

What Hanshi said- it's much less mechanical. But once you get it figured out, it is about the most fun you can have at the range.

To paraphrase the Jedi fellow, once rocks banged have you, forever will they control your range time!

 

[Scorpmann3518]

Never used anything but real black powder before. Was getting rather discouraged when I couldnt find any. Can get it an hour away. Thats not too bad for the real thing.

 

[Scorpmann3518]

Agreed. The first rifle I had was a.50 cal hawken percussion. Didnt know about anything else other than cap and ball revolvers. Now I'm lookin gat all the options. Wife still says no to more than one so I better get something I love. :haha:

 

[David W.]

Never had a flintlock before but the more I look at them and read about it the more interested I get. Heard guys tell it was a load of fun.

Don't do it, you'll get hooked! :thumbsup:

 

Flintlocks, don't have headaches, or a time of the month. They don't ask if their butt looks too big. They don't care if you take out the big .58, or .54 cal. They don't look down on the lowly .32 being so sleek, and light weight. They don't complain that you occasionally play with the other thirty or forty flintlocks in the safes, as long as you fondle them regularly, clean and shoot them. I feel like a Mormon with many wives, that need to be given attention. I'm not addicted, I'm not addicted, I'm not addicted. It's just a passing 40 year interest.

Bill

 

[David W.]

Sounds pretty reasonable to me, Bill.

 

[Scorpmann3518]

Maybe I should trade her for a few flintlocks :rotf:

 

[Mad Irish Jack]

Wife still says no to more than one so I better get something I love. ..Maybe I should trade her for a few flintlocks.

If ya can get a few really good ones fer yer wife, that'll be a bonus. :hmm: But don't turn down an excellant one or she'll let you hear about it forever. :slap: If it's the right one, do the trade before she gets wind of it. :wink: Better survival rate that way. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: Good luck.

 

[runnin lead]

Can she cook ,sew,cast roundballs,Pack out elk,
butcher elk,deer & speed goats, does she have much wampum. seeing that you won't be needing those caplocks any more post pictures of the caplocks that will be coming with her.