It’s ok. I have like 11 flintlocks! 🤣. And only three percussion rifles with this one. The others I will not get rid of as they are special. A .50 GRRW 1/2 stock Leman rifle the wife got me when we were married (1979). And a really nice John Bergmann J&S Hawken style fullstock .54 I inherited from my old copanēro.

I know what you mean about .40’s. I had a Bedford 40 percussion for years and like a dumbazz I sold it. It was really nice. So I built me a little flint .40 "jäger” style rifle from parts I had laying around for about 40 years. I kilt a bunch of deer and hogs with that .40 Bedford!!! Turkeys too. Round ball kills. And I have no doubt I can take our deer here with this little Vincent rifle. With about 50 grains of FFFG it should sing!!!

Oh! I have an old Douglas XX 44" , 13/16 AF .40 out in the shop. Maybe i will build a little 1/2 stock flinter like
col. dodge had on the 1836 western Oklahoma expedition. That might be cool!

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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."

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