Ever cut your FINGER on a flinter?

[Bullmoose]

Yes I have and OUCH!!! :cursing:
We were shooting blanks at a Revolutionary reenacting gig, and 3 of us quickly flint cut ourselves in the mist of the battle. It is easy to do if you are not watching yourself. I feel like a bum :yakyak: doing it, So I'm asking if anyone else ever brought blood using your FLINTER :surrender:

 

[Skychief]

Yep! I have had a flinter for less than a week and have the wounds to prove it! :rotf:

 

[Grenadier1758]

Yes, I have cut my finger several times on the flint. How else can you be sure it is sharp enough to shave hot iron from the frizzen?

 

[Tom Compton]

Yes, certainly. Works best to cut the 1st joint of the trigger finger - makes you stroke the trigger.

 

[RC]

ya mean yer not suppose to????? well how ya check an see if the flints sharp? one quick wipe'll tell ya quick..... :wink:

 

[RJR]

Can't say as I have. But then again, I work in a stamping plant handling sharp steel all day long without gloves, never get cut. Drives my boss crazy, he looks at the steel wrong and cuts himself with gloves on.

 

[LaBonte]

FWIW - flint and obsidian have been used in modern surgery where an extremely fine cut is of a benefit - both make a cut of about one micron where as the finest steel cuts at 10+ microns........

 

[renovato]

Several times so far. Flints can be dang sharp, and they're kinda fumbly in my fat fingers. So I figger I'll probably be cutting myself occasionally from now on.

 

[Leonredbeard]

I was setting my customer up to fire the first shot from his new flinter. Bled all over it.
volatpluvia

 

[tsmgguy]

Never have, and I have to ask, how do you do that? My otherwise clumsy fingers just never seem to go anywhere near that sharp flint during reloading.

 

[R.M.]

It's kind of like dry-ballin. You will. :v

 

[JohnnyO]

Yep!

 

[Many Klatch]

Your gun isn't really yours until you have spread a little blood on it. It's a secret only us flintlock shooters know. Make sure you spread some of the blood on the stock next time, and there will be a next time.

Many Klatch

 

[zampilot]

I took a small but irritaing and bloody piece out of my thumb with a chisel the other day. Wondered why the lock had all these fresh blood stains on it as I was reassembling it.

 

[Geraldo]

Yes, certainly. Works best to cut the 1st joint of the trigger finger - makes you stroke the trigger.

I prefer to use the pad of my index finger on the trigger, and I cut accordingly. :wink:

 

[tnlonghunter]

I've lost count of how many times I've cut my fingers. Mostly, it's when I'm wiping fouling from the underside of the flint to improve sparking and I'm not paying enough attention.

 

[Vaino]

While at the gunshop at Williamsburg I was watching their newest creation being passed about the visitors and a 12-14 yr old lad fully cocked the fowler and pulled the trigger except he forgot to remove his thumb from the pan. The nail was split open from a sharp flint and he was very lucky that the cock stop saved a part of his thumb. The fowler was dropped and after the hullaboo, I asked the gunsmith if there was a danger that the shop would be sued and he wasn't much concerned. Then I asked him how such a beautiful, expensive long gun is so nonchalantly passed among the many visitors and he said that it speeded up the aging process.....Fred

 

[MikeChapin]

It basically comes with the territory. Kind of like paper cuts if you are a paper pusher. I get a lot less than when I started thirty years ago but still manage to catch one now and again. As 40 Flint says it mostly is on the trigger finger for me.

 

[BenCoogle]

Been shooting flintlocks 40 years, cut my thumb doing "Drakes Raid" in June! Every now and then you have to offer up 'Strawberries' to the Flintlock Deities! :bow:

Ben

 

[StewartLeach]

Yep, quite a few times, on the back of my index finger knuckle. Then I made myself a longer vent pick......

White Fox