First flint

[Legionair]

I was just wondering... If you all could peer back through the mists of time and show us what your first flint looked like?

I'll start (though I'm not peering that far)...

Not PC, I know, but a christmas gift from my wife, and she shoots where I point her (the rifle). :grin:

Legion

 

[Slowpoke]

I build mine from scratch, with the finest materials money could buy. I was mighty proud out it too until I saw/held in my hands a truely well built rifle. Then I took the barrel and lock out and threw the rest into a campfire.

 

[fluggies4]

I don't have a picture, 'cause the gun is long gone, but it was a really poor replica of a second model Brown Bess. I got it back about 1972. It did fire, though, and I put holes in many an unsuspecting stump. I didn't have a mould, so I took apart 12ga. roundball slugs and used those, no cloth patching, just the wads from the shotgun shells. Still, it was fun and made do until I learned better.

 

[longfowler]

I don't have a picture, but I still have the rifle. I bought a lyman trade rifle years ago, shot a nice 6 pointer with it. then in an apparent fit of insanity, I cut the barrel down to 18" and coverted it to caplock. I used the lock & stub of barrel to make a pistol, so technicaly I still have the whole rile. but I wish it was all original- now I know better!

 

[Roy]

.32 cal. My first build.

 

[bob1961]

mine was a T/C .50 flinter before....

after the maple stock was added....now i'm building a lancaster in .54........bob

 

[trent/OH]

Spanish-made "Kentucky" type rifle, with the 2 piece stock. The barrel was bent slightly upward, and it took me a few years to figure it out. My anti-gravity rifle, the longer the range, the higher it struck. And I don't wish I had it back.

 

[Toomuch_36]

No pictures, but mine was a C.V.A. Frontier rifle circa 1980. I still have it and it still will stack one ball on top of another at 50yd. (if I can hold it steady enough). I have a Traditions Pa. longrifle .50cal. and have built myself a .32cal. Lancaster style longrifle (both flint) that I use for competition now and use the frontier mainly for hunting due to its shorter length.

Toomuch
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Shoot Flint

 

1803 Harpers Ferry, .54. It was made by some Italian company named San Paolo or something like that. You all probably know what an 1803 looks like. I sure wish I still had it.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

First rocklock I stuffed together back in the early 70's. More mistakes than parts in the rifle, but, a great shooter.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Bob, is that the same bbl in the before/after TC? Or, Is it because you did a very neat job of slimming the new wood up and achieves the longer bbl look?

 

[Rocky Johnson]

My frist flint was a trade gun I bough at an auction sale in the UP. Don't who build it,it has a 33 inch 20 ga. barrel the small lock is stamped DWG. Only thing I can say about it is that it shoots. :winking: Rocky

 

I still own my first flintlock - a Lyman GPR in .54 my father traded his S&W Model 41 for to get me a Christmas present back in the late 80's. I believe I was 18 or 19 at the time.

I have added two more since then - my Pedersoli .54 Kentucky pistol I built last year, and the Chambers Lancaster .54 I'm currently building.

 

[MikeChapin]

Mine was a Dixie convertable .45 kit. Nice enough rifle and it shot well. It was a fullstock with a LeHigh type butt with no cheek piece. The cheap Dixie lock was a pain but I saw an article in Muzzle Blasts about lock tuning and that fixed the problem.

It had too short a pull for comfort so I ended up selling it to buy the parts for my first scratch build.

 

[scroggwe]

My first flintlock long gun was a poor reproduction of a Charleville made in Belgium for Dixie Gun Works. I bought it in 1974. It had brass barrel bands instead of steel and the frizzen didn't spark good. It was supposed to be .69 caliber, but as I recall it was actually about .67 caliber. My first flintlock was a Dixie .62 caliber British horse pistol that I bought in 1972 after I got out of the Navy. It also had a soft frizzen. I later rehardened the frizzen and it shot fine. I don't own either one now, and don't want them back! Both guns were cheap, even by 1972/74 standards, but it was a learning experience.

 

[Teleoceras]

Legion:

My first Flintlock is my T/C Renegade .50 that I bought in January 1999.

Of course, this was a few months before I had the tasted the addictions known as Matchlocks and Handgonnes. :bow: :grin:

Slowmatch Forever!
Teleoceras

 

[shmrck1]

Mine was a Lyman GPR in .50 cal. Still have it
and love it though I don't shoot it as near as
much as I would like to.
snake-eyes :hatsoff:

 

[David Teague]

Mine was a TVA Poor boy that I bought in 1980...

Had both a flint and percussion locks in 45 cal.

The rifle is long gone, but I still shoot flint.

 

[FKnorr]

My first flint was a T\C Renegade 54 cal. I bought this gun back in 1982. My brother know has the gun, still a great shooter.

 

[Protrucker]

My first flinter was also a T/C .54 Renegade that I bought new about 1974-75. I've taken whitetails & black bear with it, but now it stays in the cabinet most of the time because I have graduated to a p/c early Pennsylvania by Tip Curtis in the same caliber.