Welcome Linc!

[Dryball]

Welcome to your new home Linc! I see you've made your first post already....your gonna fit right in! Let us know a bit about you if you don't mind.

Ned

[Roaring Bull]

Welcome to the camp Linc.  Set right down and get a cup.  Coffee is hot and fresh.

Watch yer step around camp though.  We gotta bullfrog that is loose and a couple bulls.  And a rooster scratching the place up too.

[Ironwood]

Howdy Linc,  Welcome to the forum.  We are always glad to have another member.   There's lots of good folks in this forum.  Hope you will feel right at home. 

[Linc]

Thank you for the welcome. I am 56yrs old and have been married 31yrs of it to the same women. I have many interests but mostly things traditional in nature (in the broad sense.LOL) I became a convert to traditional archery in 1997 and since regressed to making my own selfbows,strings,arrows,quivers and flintknapping. I bought my first muzzleloader (a .54cal inline) back in the early 90's. Around 1999 I bought a Traditions .50 cal Deerhunter which I still have. During the interim I have bought other inlines and sold them shortly afterwards.

At present I have 4 front stuffers:
Traditions Lightning Bolt .50cal inline
Traditions Deerhunter .50cal sidelock
T/C Renegade .54cal sidelock that I just bought
and last but not least a Cabela's .54cal Hawkins that I just rebuilt and refinished.

I love the looks of a flinter but I couldn't seem to hit the broadside of a barn with the one that I had 4yrs ago.

As of late,all my deer hunting is with a muzzleloader. I am thinking about getting a small cal. for squirrel hunting. I think that would be a lot of fun.

[kit_carson]

I love the looks of a flinter but I couldn't seem to hit the broadside of a barn with the one that I had 4yrs ago.

thats because you flinch! everybody does when they start shooting flintlocks, and its the hardest habit to break, but when you do, you never look back at percussion weapons

[old salt]

Linc
You mat have started the way I was told by a friend.
Start with a small wooden block where the flint goes and start snapping, When you know longer see the hammer fall replace the flint, when you know longer see the sparks, add prim to the pan, when you get to the point that you have look and see if the prim flashed or not it is time to go to the range start having fun.

The Old Salt

[Linc]

I am also sure it was because of the flash and flinching. I will try again one of these days. I would like to get a flint squirrel rifle to play around with. There are lots of gray bushytails around here to practice on. LOL.

[FrankG]

Welcome to camp ! Once ya figger the flint out its a blast 

[Linc]

FrankG, Thank you.I just replied to your post on Home Made Bow.

[twobears]

welcome fine bunch of people on here there bark is worse than there bite

[Chaffa Hosa]

Welcome to the forum

[Ranger]

Welcome to the fire, Linc! I think you'll fit right in and have a flinter in yer paws before ya know it! 

[bull frog]

The fellas are right, beginners flinch is a real problem.  I started out pouring the pan full of primming powder, with that much powder in the pan you could not help but flinch.  It is a real surprise how little powder is really needed to fire the flint lock rifle.  Now I use a lot less and hardly have any flinch at all. If you keep at it you will get over it.

[Linc]

Thanks for the welcome everyone.

I'm already thinking about a small bore flinter kit from Sitting Fox. LOL. I'm not about to let the flash in the pan kick my butt. (at least not for long)

[Ranger]

Sitting fox sells a pretty good product for the money. I'm sure you won't be disapointed. I reccamend going with the stock upgrade if one is available.