I'm taking my Hawken to the Daniel Boone National Forest later this month for a deer hunt. My buddy and I are going "primitive" -- well, as much as living in 2002 will allow and within our budgets, anyway.

So... I swung by the local Gander Mountain to pick up some flints and a pan primer. I found one piddly little offering of flints, but they were what I needed so I grabbed them. I looked among all the nick-nacks for a pan primer... nada.

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDIN' ME?!

I looked some more. Not one gol-durn pan primer in the whole black powder section. They had "Knight" stuff and "Traditions" stuff... PLENTY of gadgets for you yuppie caplock guys... but not ONE GOL-DURN PAN PRIMER??????

Frankly, I felt just a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee bit discriminated against. I mean, it's not like I'm going to call the commies at the ACLU or anything... but I definitely felt some measure of discrimination.

Caplocks are a passing fad and it's high time you youngsters realized it!

(To be honest, I'm surprised they even had flints.)

I'm glad I didn't bother looking for a cow's knee. I'm sure it would have been a waste of my time and some young clerk would have looked at me like I was an escaped felon or something if I'd asked him where they were.

Russ

[ 10-16-2002, 05:15: Message edited by: Russell E. Taylor ]

Russ,

No insult intended but...they take too long to reload and they...smell...REALLY bad.

Russ,
If you are not getting any support ove her in the Big Bores isle then come on over the the Bowhunters corner and we will comiserate with you over the discrimination deal. We get it all the time

Good Luck Smokepoling !

I shoot a .75 cal Brown Bess "carbine". For supplies of all sorts go to Track of the Wolf. Better than Dixie Gun Works for the flintlock shooter. However, best beware, many toys are on the front page.

If I had a flintlock, would I have to clean it?

i dont know about you guys but i all my guns are flint lock except 1

custom 62 cal german jager flint
custom 75 cal german jager flint
custom 8 bore german jager flint
custom 4 bore german jager flint

2 bore under hammer percussion

the best place for flints is track of the wolf
as well they also have pan primers and other flinter acsessorys

www.octobercountry.com is another good choise.

Well...if you really are a die-hard flintlock shooter you'd make all that stuff instead of buying it. Or at least wait until the next rendevous and trade some beaver pelts for it...that and whiskey...

You're supposed to be able to make that sort of stuff. Killed another two deer with my flinter last weekend.
Brent

i prefer handknaped english flints.

Ditto, but I haven't tried them all. Dixie's American flints aren't bad, but T/C flints don't last Atall.

Bye
Jack

The last ones I got were black, catalogue #7200, about 7-8 years ago. Maybe they've got better ones now.

Bye
Jack