ultimate flintlock for ?

[Stumpkiller]

NW Trade Gun. Huge lock on a 24 or 20 gauge barrel for igniting questionable or stale powder and light weight for easy carrying. Multi-use up close and further away I can run or hide. But I'd much prefer the AK-47.

Barrel not too long so I can kill myself - being alone and isolated out of my time, an enemy to everything on two or four legs and not knowing the land or languages.

 

[ebiggs1]

Not sure how this is so different from this thread you started before it. After all "Ultimate" is ultimate...
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/254571/[/quote]

Possibly it's the thread title that is confusing the question. Maybe should have worded it differently.
The topic should be, is there a flintlock, pre 1830, that is as venerable as the AK47 has become?
You know nothing of the circumstances you are about to enter but still that individual said if he had to select a weapon, it would be an AK47. Is the Brown Bess the ultimate flintlock? Would it be your choice for this endeavor? When you say “AK47” you don't have to tell anyone anywhere what you are talking about. They know! Virtually everyone in the world knows what it is. When you say Brown Bess.................?

 

[David W.]

The only BP guns I think everyone can at least half way know is the Brown Bess, the Blunderbuss, and od course, the Kentucky rifle.

 

[Steve French]

I have two flintlocks, a .44 Kentucky and a .50 Hawken. I would really want to take my Kentucky, but not knowing what I may encounter, I'll take my Hawken. :wink:
Pustic

 

[KHickam]

My 62 cal fowler.

 

[Ray-Vigo]

Probably a Brown Bess or a Charleville with a mixture of shot and ball ammo and a bayonet. They're robust, load quickly, can take a variety of shot/ball and, if reload isn't an option, you have a bayonet as a last resort. The interesting thing is that these sorts of guns actually DID get dropped into the "unknown planet" scenario-- when the English and French were first colonizing the eastern coast and the frontiers. They were successful, in fact so much so, that the natives who were the "unknown people" from the new place adopted them as well.

 

[Homesteader]

Can't I tote my .45 Southern long rifle in one hand, and 20 bore English fowler in the other? Y'know, Jeremiah Johnson style...
:wink:

 

[Twice boom]

Nothing but a flint knife and my Chihuahua Miguel.
Twice.

 

[ebiggs1]

Can't I tote my .45 Southern long rifle in one hand, and 20 bore English fowler in the other? Y'know, Jeremiah Johnson style...
:wink:

The fellow on the TV program was satisfied with just an AK47, so, no, you have to select one flintlock that equals an AK in unquestioned perfection for any task that may befall it.