Can't stand 'em. Hate 'em.


Especially them darn flintlocks..




Just kidding. I LOVE my flinter. Back before my arms got too short to read a newspaper, I could shoot 50 yd groups with that rifle that you could cover with a business card all day long, off hand.

It is but a .40 cal. Douglas barrel, small Siler lock. Built by WM. "Bill" Mowery in '81. He won the TMLRA nationals with it a couple of years running. I swapped him a real nice Rem-Hepburn in 38-55 for it and got $200 boot. He wanted that Hepburn bad.

I've been burning charcoal since I was 7 or 8 when my grandfather let me shoot his old 1861 Springfield. He loaded it light and I rested the forend on an old tire. We had a lot of fun.