What Was Your First Flintlock

Mine was an old Italian 1803 Harper's Ferry in .54. Good sparks and fairly accurate. The front brass band on the forestock was cheesey and loose fitting but I still miss it.

 

[Rebel]

Mine was a Cabelas Traditional Hawken i .54 cal.

 

My first flintlock was a "zulu gun" made in Belgun from old musket parts. It was proofed some time in the 30s. It was a nice if somewhat clunkey musket. I wish I still had it, the French lock would be worth a pretty penny today.

 

Mine was a Numrich Arms Minuteman flintlock rifle. I bought it from Six Flags Trading Post in Wichita, Kansas from the Old Colonel Davidson back in '75 or '76. Had a lot of fun with that .50 caliber rifle and learned a lot. My dad still has it and enjoys it.

 

[Mike Brooks]

I built mine, a flint fullstock Hawken himmer thingy. :haha:

 

[Slowpoke]

Dixie mountain rifle, 32 cal. Couple years ago I put a Goodien 32 cal barrel in with double set Davis triggers. Talk about a tack driver....

SP

 

[boar]

Mster My was a CVA Kentucky 45 Got first BP Groundhog& first BP squirrel(5 shot,had mine name on it.)Was Kit 90.00 but lock was too slow. Sold it it for 100.00 Got a better one Ozark MT could shoot a kichen match of with it. Dilly

 

I made my first flinter in 1948. A 30/30 barrel tapped the chamber and screwed in a plug.stock was a 2x6 cut down to shape with a hand saw, barelheld down with pipe strap. Ignition was parts of a hubly cap gun. fired it twice,then it dissappeared , I think dad had something to do with that.Dad said my theory ws sound but my knowlege of metalurgy stunk.

 

[ol vern]

Back in 1965 I read a article on building a rifle from a DGW kit.

The writer made it sound fairly easy so I ordered up a flintlock kit and had at it.

Wasn't easy but certainly was a learning experience!

You have no idea how good today’s builder has it when it comes to parts.

Anyhow I got my rifle together .

The worst part was now I was hooked! Every time I looked at that gun I saw where I could have done better. So I built another and so on & so on. I have built 10 or 20 more since that first try.

I guess I will stop when it stops being fun.

 

[thehorn]

When I was 14 (1970) my father bought a flint TC Hawken about when TC first went to producing them. We shot it for a couple of months - I liked it - and one day he came home with a zoli zouave that he traded the tc for. Go figure.

 

[Halftail]

Lyman Deerstalker,50 cal. Nice little deer gun.I'm thinking on getting another Flintlock .....something in Fullstock.

 

[Swampman]

An Italian Brown Bess I built from a kit. It was an excellent gun.

 

[Wehrmacht]

My first? A .45cal Jacob Dickert rifle with the typical Dickert patchbox.Her name is "Phoebe",and we used to sleep togather :winking:.But I couldn't be "faithful" to "Phoebe",and have eleven others now with two more presently being created.God but am I having a mid-life crisis :youcrazy:.

 

[scott k]

A TC Hawken 50 Cal. :grin:
Lehigh

 

I was late getting a flinter, shot percussion rifles for many years. When I moved to Colorado in 1988 I went to a rondy back in the rockies and toted along a custom (perc)Hawkin I had built from parts I assembled. It was a nice rifle with a fine Green River .58 barrel, copied from a genuine Hawkin in a Taos museum. Saw a pretty flintlock PA rifle on a trade blanket and swapped my Hawkin and some cash for it. Many years later I found out I had struck a great deal, 'cause that flinter was made by the noted Keith Casteel. It was his 50th rifle (he told me much later), made in 1974. He is now semi-retired from the business. I retired that rifle and now shoot one of several others...but I tote it once and a while at events...

 

[2172]

My second gun built(1975) from a kit was a DGW Lancaster in .45...came with both a flintlock and a caplock...used it for years as a caplock until i couldn't get a replacement spring for it..tried the flintlock and it was ng...installed a small Siler lock and have enjoyed it ever since ... Hank

 

[MikeChapin]

My first flinter was the same as Hank's - the DGW Lancaster back in '77 or '78. When it would go off, it was a good shooter. I used it in both flint and percussion for 6-8 months then sold it. Used the money for the parts for my first "scratch" build, a .36 Lancaster flinter that I still have.

 

[Protrucker]

My first flinter was/is a .54 T/C Renegade that I bought new in the early 1970's. I've acquired others since, but it will remain a memorable part of my collection since I used it to take whitetails & my first black bear with it.

 

[bshultz]

Mine was a TC 50cal Reneagade.

 

[musketman]

My first flintlock was also a T/C Renegade, only in .54 caliber...