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flintlock. Been a while. time flys.

I haven’t killed one of them since the early eighties in Rock Springs

Mike likes his smokepoles...Ain't nothing wrong with that either

Nice shot Mike!

.60 cal ball, 0.10 pre-lubed Ox-Yoke patch in a 20ga (.62 cal) smoothbore flintlock fowler over 80 grains FFFg, turned the chest cavity of that little javelina into chopped liver..

Not recorded in that video Roger had previously put me on a stand for deer on his family’s property at the time but I drew a blank. The sort of generosity one comes to expect from Roger.

Thanks again Rog, that was a good day 😎

The carcass went to a South Texas friend who grew up eating such critters, I still have the skull.

That looks like some awesome So. TX deer cover. Taller than I'm accustomed to.

That was just on the edge of San Diego tx, San Diego creek ran through that property.

Good shootin' Mike!

Thumbs up here.

And your friend got some good eatin' from you Birdy.

Roger put me onto another bunch of javelinas a bit further out just prior, a clean miss.

Part of the problem was lock time between pulling the trigger and the actual shot. Seems pretty quick on video but when you’re shooting it feels like you put in an order for a shot and are waiting for delivery.

Shooting targets you learn to hold rock steady during that interval, on live game ya gotta follow the movement of the critter while you’re waiting.

Not so much an issue with modern centerfires.

I can see that. One of the best Offhand shooters I've seen started out by becoming an accomplished flintlock offhand shooter.

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Sweet!

Tks Rog, I went over that frame by frame back then and the javelina I was aiming at begins to spin back around just as the cock is falling.

(The cock is what they called the “hammer” that holds the flint on a flintlock since it resembles a chicken’s head with the flint in its beak. This is where the term to cock your weapon etc comes from).

I was concentrating on a steady hold, I shoulda been following the movement. Anyhow a clean miss.

All else being equal, the bigger the lock, the longer the arc the flint has to strike the frizzen, the slower the lock time.

OTOH bigger locks use wider flints and longer frizzens and so tend to throw more sparks making ignition more reliable. I figure military-issue muskets used big, slow locks for that very reason

That was my first flinter, when I had it built I ordered a larger lock (Chambers Colonial Virginia) for a better spark, at the time I was unaware such locks tend to be slower.

I have a .50 cal rifle with a Small Siler Lock and a set trigger, much faster ignition, almost like a centerfire. Dinky little flint tho.

Good videos thanks for posting.

You don't see many anymore, hogs have run them out and taken over.

Who has the picture of his dove?

What caliber musket?