Is Kibler changing Flintlock participation

[Buff1958]

50 years ago I shot in a lot of muzzleloader shoots. There was one pretty much every weekend some where.
Probably 90% of the fellows used percussion guns.

Kids, work and life took over and I didn’t go to any for 40 years or so.

I started back a couple of years ago, going to the one and only monthly shoot in my area.
I was surprised to see 50% flintlocks.
Every month the is another guy showing up or swapping over to a Kibler flintlock.

My best guess now is that it is 70% flintlocks on the line every month.

Is this just a local thing or are they jumping up all over the country, due to the high quality kits Kibler is building.

I know me me I rarely ever shoot my percussion rifles and have built 8 kiblers

 

[Powder Sniffer]

Getting and building a Kibler is what got me started in this hobby, was able to also get my dad to switch over from precussion as well.

 

[FlaminCrow]

I haven’t gone to many shoots in a while but I do believe he has done wonders for our sport. Even as far as bringing new people to muzzleloading.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Got a Colonial and shot it a bit then got a Woodsrunner and shot it a bit more. Keep going back to percussion despite the Kibler’s quality. He certainly has made the flintlock a much more attractive choice. My local shoot has always had flintlocks but I believe it’s about the same as 20 years ago.

 

[loflyr55]

Caps are hard to get, mass produced flintlocks don’t perform or look like kibler, it is becoming the sweet spot for affordable quality.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

50 years ago I shot in a lot of muzzleloader shoots. There was one pretty much every weekend some where.
Probably 90% of the fellows used percussion guns.

Kids, work and life took over and I didn’t go to any for 40 years or so.

I started back a couple of years ago, going to the one and only monthly shoot in my area.
I was surprised to see 50% flintlocks.
Every month the is another guy showing up or swapping over to a Kibler flintlock.

My best guess now is that it is 70% flintlocks on the line every month.

Is this just a local thing or are they jumping up all over the country, due to the high quality kits Kibler is building.

I know me me I rarely ever shoot my percussion rifles and have built 8 kiblersView attachment 391659

I’ve been shooting muzzleloaders since the mid-70’s. Flintlocks have improved so much since those early days. And in the 21st century, Kibler has made a great reliable flintlock, and made that gun easily available to the general shooting public. No more frustrating days at the range, endless hang fires, lack of general information.

I’ve been shooting flintlocks almost exclusively for the last 37+/- years, simply because I find flintlocks to be architecturally more appealing than a percussion, and all my flintlocks work…each and every time.

My collection of percussions have become mostly a set of well cared for “Safe Queens”.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

I shot cap guns in the 70s. When I retired from the Army in 92 I went right for a flintlock, and never looked back.

 

[Wncman]

50 years ago I shot in a lot of muzzleloader shoots. There was one pretty much every weekend some where.
Probably 90% of the fellows used percussion guns.

Kids, work and life took over and I didn’t go to any for 40 years or so.

I started back a couple of years ago, going to the one and only monthly shoot in my area.
I was surprised to see 50% flintlocks.
Every month the is another guy showing up or swapping over to a Kibler flintlock.

My best guess now is that it is 70% flintlocks on the line every month.

Is this just a local thing or are they jumping up all over the country, due to the high quality kits Kibler is building.

I know me me I rarely ever shoot my percussion rifles and have built 8 kiblersView attachment 391659

I started with a percussion. It was a Sharon Hawken. No problems shot great and had a lot of fun. Then I shot a friend’s flintlock. I was hooked.

 

[mikesto44]

I've been shooting flintlock since the early Seventies. Started with a T.C. Hawkens an missed a nice deer with it. Because the cap was a dud. Bought a custom flintlock from a friend and never looked back.!

 

[Nor'Easter]

The internet has "MFGA", Made Flintlocks Great Again.
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Once you figure out how to effectively harden a frizzen and some very basic lock tweaking, even a junk lock can be made to function pretty reliably.
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Now we have access to some pretty nice locks, and guys like Dave Person show us how to fix "mediocre" locks.
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It's 2025 and the world is our oyster.