Lock Cover

[Welchman]

When you hunt with a flint lock in wet weather do you use a lock cover and is your purchased or self made. I plan to use my flint this deer and don't want to miss a shot because of wet priming powder.

Thanks,

Welchman

 

[roundball]

I use a "cow's knee" commercially made by "Leatherman", but I only use it as a physical protective device to protect the lock when walking in or out of the woods in the dark, so brush doesn't catch on the flint, hammer, frizzen, etc.

When hunting, I just keep the muzzle down, and the lock area up under my coat where it's warm and dry...nothing to have to remove (drop, make noise, make movement, etc) when I want to fire the rifle.
:m2c:

 

[Rat]

Yeah, under the coat, jacket, vest or whatever. If it's really pouring I'll find a place to sit it out under a cedar tree.

To be honest, if it's going to be a whole day gully washer, frog strangler-40-days-and-40-nights-rain I'll go back to camp, home or whatever.

Light rain, and off and on rainey days, no problem just keeping it up under the arm and under the jacket or coat.

Rat

 

[RMillet]

I made this one from the hock of the first deer I ever killed some 20 years ago. It's raw hide stained with waterbased stain and a couple dozen coats of boiled linseed oil. It has shrunk a little over the last couple of years so it doesn't fit as well as it once did. Still I carry the gun with it on whenever it's threatening to rain. It pops right off with just a flick of my forefinger under the frizzen spring.

Dick

 

I seal the pan w/ a 'string' of beeswax, then put a leather cows knee.

 

[waksupi]

I use a piece of virgin wool, about 14 inches square. I drape it diagonally across the lock. It is pretty much waterproof, from my past experiences. And, when you are ready to shoot, when you shift your hand from the firearm balance, it falls to the ground, out of the way.