Thread: Flintlocks anyone

Not sure about the UK but have never seen a Kilt on the Range. Think one of the universal rules is that you wear underpants when you shot.

Course you wear pants at the range...All the girls do...Real Men do their shootin in the woods...In a Kilt...Swinging free in the breeze!


Mick

It has been several years since there has been a serious kilt thread, you guys may wish to consider starting one and lets see who is wearing them these days.

I agree. Back to the subject at hand. I was just down at a local gunshop. Just looking really. No BP guns in sight(should have actually asked, but didn't), however he had powder horns hanging up behind the counter, which leads me to suspect he would have the BP gear out the back. Favouring shelf space for the more common guns of today.


Mick

I thought Australia was degunned Mick ??

Not entirely...At least not yet. And the last one I own will have to be prised from my cold dead fingers!


Mick

Originally Posted by Nightblade

I thought Australia was degunned Mick ??

Degunned....that's a bad word..

back to the subject. i never seed an unmanly man wearin' a kilt.

i've scot blood on both sides, even a castle-way on back there. i like wool too.

oh yeah the other OP subject:

I hadda explain to a young hunter yesterday that the "inline" gun is not a natural evolution of the weapon-that it is a complete and total bastard creation of special hunting seasons. (i'm not speaking ill of them or their users, just esplainin' the evolutionary difference.)

Flintlocks were came in the early 1600's and lasted through the late 1800's when displaced by percussion guns--which lasted about 17 minutes before being replaced by repeating cartridge guns. ALL of which where the cutting edge of technology and performance of their day-military and sporting.

Stuffing powder and projectile down the muzzle never completely died out. Then when game commissions started handing out different "seasons" for different weapons...eventually the "modern" fluted stainless laminated thumbhole scoped sabot pellet spitting arm was developed for that market. The point being that no matter how much "improved" it is, they're mainly just tending to a market of buyers who simply want another chance to fill a tag with little regard to history or tradition.

AFIK only Pennsylvania (Bless 'em for it) limited their M/L season to flinters/PRB (LMK if your state has a "limited" version of M/L season).

I fully intend to _only_ shoot flinters once i get a couple three built-aside from short arms work, which i do all in SA revolver.

Anyone thinking of building one (even from carved kit) should get Recreating the American Longrifle. Also full-sized plans are only 6 bucks at the usual sources. I also have a grand master 45 miles down the road (ace in the hole yo).

I'll go carve on mine some more now whilst the elk-sausage/biscuit/gravy digestifies...

Back when I lived in taxachusettes it was called "primitive firearms" season and had to be either cap or flint lock. No inlines. Next time I talk to my dad I'll ask him if that us still the case but I suspect it is being they don't allow rifles for deer hunting ('ceptin the aforementioned smoke poles).
As for the unlined being a recent invention, if this article I read while doing a wee bit of the research on my next purchase is correct, the first patented in line muzzle loader was in the early 1800's.

http://www.whitemuzzleloading.com/hi...zleloading.htm

I still want one of them fancy modern ones but first I'm going to get me a Lyman Trade Rifle, then this spring or summer I'll pick up one of those kits (probably a pistol because I've wanted a flintlock pistol since I was a little feller) to try out. If it works well and I don't mess it up much I have a feeling that by next squirrel season I'll have either a smoothbore or a small caliber flinter to use for the season. Because they're just cool.

And I have lofty ambitions of becoming an old curmudgeon and I think a few flinters combined with my propensity for wet shaving, fly fishing, and pipes will help me achieve that goal.

wrt 1800's inline, yes and a digital wristwatch was made in 1888 and belt-drive bicycles go back that far too.

my point was that were it not for the game seasons especial, the modern inline would not exist (at this moment) on the shelves of your local megalowmart. whereas the rocklock has a following independent of hunting "benefits" and even shooters who are more concerned with punching paper rather than gathering game.

and i'm not against anybody shooting one of them contraptions, just don't make me watch...