Turkey season on hold

[Rebel]

Well, turkey season opened here Sat. to a downpour of rain. Rain Sunday and Monday too. Yesterday i finally got a dry day to go out and try out the fowler with the 2f Dragon Powder. It was the only brand of 2f available locally. Anyway, the powder worked fine, but i found out the frizzen spring screw is stripped out. I have a screw on order from Track and it should be here by the beginning of the week, so until then my season has to wait. I could use my Navy Arms double barrel .12 ga, but i got one with it last year and am determined to get this years with the flinter, so i have to wait. Guess that ain't all bad because it seems most of the turkeys on the property i have permission to hunt have dissappeared. The owner said opening morning there wasn't a single turkey around, when up until then there had been 30-40 every day. He did say one tom, a jake and a few hens have moved back in, so maybe the delay will give more time to come back. I did get 93 shots out of the original Tom Fuller black english flint that i put in the gun when i got it. I could get at least 10-15 more shots if i wanted to mess with it, but figure what the heck, 93 is enough.

 

[roundball]

I did get 93 shots out of the original Tom Fuller black english flint that i put in the gun when i got it. I could get at least 10-15 more shots if i wanted to mess with it, but figure what the heck, 93 is enough.

That's how I feel about it too...I can usually get 40-50 shots on a BEF without having to knapp it, and the way I'm getting flints so cheap, other than the novelty of doing it a couple of time, it just isn't worth the hassel of nursing one up into the 90's for me...so I get home after a range session, clean the used flint and toss it into a jar, start a fresh flint the next session...

 

[Hoyt]

I could get at least 10-15 more shots if i wanted to mess with it, but figure what the heck, 93 is enough.

I'd want to be on the fresh side of a flint when squeezin off a shot at a gobbler.
I know my luck and try now to stretch it.
I know what you mean about wanting to get a gobbler with a flintlock. I got one with a percussion and had to go straight to flintlocks. Don't have any desire to hunt with anything but flintlock muzzle loaders anymore...but that's just me. Probably don't really make a difference between flintlocks and percussions.
Good luck with the gobblers.

 

[Rebel]

Yep, if i was just going to target shoot i might try to stretch a few more shots out of that flint, but not for hunting. And i only have two MLer's left now, the Jackie Brown Carolina smoothbore and my Navy Arms caplock double barrel .12 ga. Either one will work for anything i want to hunt, but i have decided to just use the flinter. In fact, i may sell the double barrel later on too.