Can't believe that there are no posts in flintlocks! We need to get something started here. What are you favorite things about a flintlock and what is your favorite caliber?

I purchased a used Pedersoli Frontier flintlock rifle about a year ago. Man I really like the flintlock. Wish I had gotten into flint a lot sooner. It's a .32 caliber and deadly on squirrels! Matter of fact that's my rifle and stuff in my signature.

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I also shoot a Pedersoli, but in .50 cal. Its a Kentucky I got from Cabela's. I love a Kentucky but most have REALLY big patch boxes that I don't like. This is the only one I found that doesn't. I too love flints. The first bp rifle I ever shot was at an NRA bp class and I went and bought one two weeks later. My 14 yo son prefers percs and shoots a lefty Hawken. You would be suprised to know that there was not a single lefty bp rifle on any rack in the DFW area at the big stores. We had to order one through Traditions website.

Howdy!
.I'm looking a the Lyman GPR in RH. I'm also a southpaw, all but one of my weapons are rh models. I thought about getting a GPR in left hand, but decided that I probably need to get a righty because there are so few models made in LH.

Marc

Have you ever checked to see if you are right or left ete dominant? My son is a righty but is left eye dominant so he shoots left handed.

gets a little smokey doesn't it?

Just wanted to chip in here. I have a Traditions Hawkens in flint. Its a .50 and I haven't fired it for some time but,I will give it a go soon. It has always been reliable with long lasting flint life too. I have considered it accurate but lately ,I have been going for even better accuracy.
n.h.schmidt

I just shouldered my right hand flintlock from the left side. Sure seems like it the frizzen blocks lots of my view. Wouldn't you be apt to get more powder and flint in your face shooting that way. I think if you plan to hunt with your flintlock you might want to get a lefty. Be sure you try a righty from the left side before buying one.

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Born in the Pineywoods of East Texas a long long time ago.

I would imagine it would for a right eye dominant shooter.

Wouldn't be much different than shooting a double barrel shotgun in flint.

I kind of got used to hot brass from my M-16 as well. Still firing a Right hand model.

I'm part of the generations who learned to adapt using things left handed that were made for the right handed majority.

I do have 1 lefty in centerfire and it seems more awkward to me.

I've handled the right hand models and no problem with sight picture. Goes boom and hits the mark intended.

i have a few rock locks here is a pic the top is a early english 28 guage/.54cal the bottom is my bess also my .54cal smooth bore pistol and my .50 cal belly gun and last mt 75cal match-lock sorry this should have been in the smooth bore section

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TVM 36 CALIBER POOR BOY RIFLE ... by Matt/Toni
I have a pair of em ...
I find the lil 36 can jus' plain get it done ...
Oneday I will have to go to a smootie when these eyes fade off the back sight... till then I'll keep rollin groundhogs out past 100 yards.
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I love flinters for the history associated with them, their simplicity, and the fact that they WORK.

No question about caliber -- I prefer the .50 above all the rest. But, then, whitetailed deer are the animal I hunt most, and it only makes sense that the greatest amount of my "casual" shooting would be done with the rifle that I absolutely positively have to be able to hit and kill cleanly with. If I were in a less deer-populated (some here would call it "infested") part of the country I might favor a smaller or larger caliber, as circumstances dictated.

My rifle is a c. 1760-1770 Virginia piece that I built. The cherry stock has a sliding wood patchbox and a beavertail cheekpiece -- different from the far more common angular or square cheekpiece found on most American rifles, but not historically incorrect. Just rare, is all. I was told when I traded for it that the barrel is a Douglas -- don't know, don't care. It's 15/16" in diameter, 42 1/2" long, and a tackdriver (a pity the owner can't shoot as capably as the barrel would permit....). The sling setup is similar to arrangements that were found on guns, rifles included, originally built or modified with militia or similar quasi-military service in mind. I find I use it far less than I anticipated I would at the time I built the rifle, mainly because the deeper I've gotten into this pasttime the more I find myself at least trying to think like an 18th-century borderer (synonymous with "backwoodsman" or "frontiersman" and a term much-used in the actual period), and a rifle carried on a sling is useless for just a long enough space of time for a man to have gotten himself killed, assuming we still had to deal with the original possessors of the country taking offense to our presence. All in all the rifle shows a far stronger English musket/fowler influence than the much more Germanic pieces we're used to seeing -- which would not have been at all odd in the pre-Revolutionary South, where efforts to keep up with current English styles, fashions, and attitudes were more pronounced than in other areas of the country.

Not the best pics in the world -- I'm a gunsmith when I have time, not a photographer .

He shore do talk good don't he.

Seriously that is a beautiful piece of work. bud.

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