If you are going to shoot a gun with the lock on your side of the stock, make sure the fence behind the pan is adequate, so that chips of flint don't rebound back into your face. I had a piece come back on a RH flinter and stick into my cheek. It was not a serious wound, and I merely plucked out the flint piece, and let the blood dry.
I also have suffered pieces of percussion cap stick me in the face and arms because the skirt around the face of the hammer was either too short, or it failed to have a cut in the front of the skirt to allow the cap to break forward away from my arms and face.
Wearing glasses is a must for safety, and silly for people not to wear. In my case, I can't see much with out the darn things, so I don't even think about it. I just do it.
I happen to disagree with you, but that is why we have a forum. I think if there was no reason for LH shooters to shoot LH guns, that RH shooters would be shooting guns with the hammers or cocks on the left side, too. I don't see a rush to the gun store by RHed shooters to buy LH flintlocks.
I am willing to bet that there has to be a reason for that. :bow: :rotf: :shocked2:
