Many of you are correcting me on my definition of bevel up vs bevel down. So, I’ll concede that I must be in error. My way is how I think of the bevel position based on the position of the edge of the flint pointing up or pointing down. But so many people are correcting me, I have to concede that I my thinking is backwards.
Which one came first ? Since it is a video and you show what are you trying to say, i never think about it. But if i have to, i will go after the woodworking chiesel concept about bevel up and down. Just my 2 cents. BTW, my reference in woodworking is this guy. ruclips.net/video/ukJ2GgL50OQ/видео.html
Personally, your way looks right to me. I only have 1 flintlock,( it's a Double Barrel pistol so I guess that's 2 Flintlocks) came with out flints. When they came in, size 5/8" I followed your methodology bevel up. I really need to fire that one of these days. Good video, it is much nicer these days with all the info on you tube. Back when I got my first black powder revolver, the only good info came in the back of the Dixie Gun Works catalog.
I have done many searches and read several books that covered the topic of flints, installing and knapping them. No instruction has been as clear and helpful as this. Mike has such a organized way of thinking and communicating. Thanks so much for your excellent work again!
Mike, as a geologist-gun-guy I have a bit to offer on the subject. In terms of deposits in the U.S. there are thousands. Some is of much better quality, some worse. Flint is the same as chert except for color. In fact jasper, and petrified wood are also in the same category and should work in a pinch as well as agate. In fact it's all a form of SiO2 or quartz. It's all near a 7 on Moh's scale of hardness. Crystal quartz would work too. There are other rocks such as quartzite that will work, anything harder than the hard frizzen steel that breaks with a sharp edge. Here in my state of NY we have LOTS of it. There is one of the largest deposits of native flint mines on the east coast here in the Hudson valley and it will work as well but no one "makes" flints out of it. Maybe a new side job? Anyway, most flint or chert has too many fractures or is too brittle to work. You can fix this by heat treating your flint. Yes you heard me correct. Native tribes did it for a LONG time here. You can tell bc it often changes the colors. I once 30 yrs ago found what I think was flint on the side of a hill on the Vt. side of Lake Champlain where a soldier or indian tried making some? It was the site of a major battle so it's possible (Ft. Ticonderoga) you may have heard of it. Well, I could go on but I'm sure your all board by now!
Once again as a history nut I find this fascinating. The things our ancestors had to do simply to survive day to day really do amaze me. Thank you, Mike for another great video.
Agree. They did not have the daily "grind" that we have as well. Their job was to survive, not to pay taxes to the man. Wish I had lived then instead of now...👍
Great series on flintlocks Mike! Perhaps the new standard on the subject. Well done. One footnote on flintlocks in particular is the importance of eye protection. After shooting flintlocks steadily for a year with my new glasses. It was evident that tiny chards of flint were pitting my glasses! Just a friendly reminder.🤓
I do not like them but I wear "oversized" safety glasses over my 900USD script glasses{I'm far sighted}when shootin the fire beathin dragon. I agree, my glasses were pitting as well...@@duelist1954
brand new to Flintlocks. I purchased a Traditions Woodsman flintlock kit. It’s been a fun learning curve. I’m about to stain the stock, so that tells you where I’m at in the process. Your instruction on the right flint was great. This will allow me to order the flints now so when the gun is finished, I’ll be ready to shoot. Thanks again for a great video and I look forward to watching other things you’ve done.
I enjoy everything about flintlocks. That's all I have now. Modern guns are boring. I hunt and use them for food not a range guy. I have followed Mike for years and he does the best informed videos . It's simple thing like flints sights loads etc. That helps everyone from experience to inexperienced people. Great video like always God bless. 🙌
You take the time and go into great detail which make your information very interesting. I always look forward to your videos; keep up the great your great work.
Thanks Mike for all the information. I doubt very much most people have any idea where flint comes from and some history about it. Your videos are always interesting.
I have used a Flintlock hunting before but I never owned one just recently I purchased a new Lvman deer stalker, and your videos are very helpful for me to get started. Thank you.
VERY informative video Mike! I had no idea there was so much involved with these. Now, I grew up in a little town named Zilwaukee Michigan. It's roughly 50 miles north of a town called Flint Michigan. Which was named that because of the flint rocks found there. I do not know if it is the correct type of flint for gun flints. But if I end up in that area again (i now live on the west side of Michigan, so it's a 2-3 hour drive to Flint Mi., depending on the route and traffic) I will definitely stop and wander around down by the river and look for some. I did some knapping (with obsidian) in my youth. So it's not a strange concept to me. As far as using lead to hold onto the flint in the cock, I can see how that would work. it would conform to the irregularities on the surface of the stone. Much like the leather does. Your method of sharpening a flint in the gun is genius! Something I doubt I would have thought of, at least unless I was in dire need to be able to shoot, and I had no alternative. That scenario (in need, with no normal alternative) is likely the reason lots of things are invented. I think if I was using a flintlock in competition, I would glue the leather to the stone and make certain that the cock was rough enough to really hold onto the leather TIGHT! Losing because the flint went flying would NOT be acceptable to me. Well, it's onto the next video until my morning cofee is gone, and it warms up a little. It's a whopping 40 degrees outside this morning. and I want it to be at least mid 50's before I go out to work.
Very informative video, I have used the French amber and the english flints. Like you I don’t see much difference. I like the T. Fuller ones from track.
Recently retired, thinking about getting back into voyageur/buckskinning with flintlocks. Looking at kits so far, a lot to learn. Used a canoe gun back in the late 70s, thinking a longer rifle this time. Lots to learn/re-learn. Thanks!
Mike keep it up love your videos been watching your videos long time you showed me how to shoot and clean my colt 1851 and 1860 now I’m getting into flintlocks rifles so keep them coming
This whole series has been very helpful. Thanks Mike. Wish someone would have told me all this a few decades ago. BTW, love the English flints in my L&R lock. No more klatching, no more Flinchlock and plenty of spark.
Great video, Mike. I used to work at a historic site in Savannah, Georgia that was located along the river. In the 18th and 19th centuries, during the age of sail, ships used flint as ballast. They dumped their ballast along the river banks and today, you can canoe along the banks and find piles of flint. I suspect it is the same in most of the old cities, even around the Great Lakes.
@@keithfurman6245 It all depends. There are piles of it that locals used to make arrowheads. I have seen the dark english flint there but no french amber.
Mike, instead of using a screwdriver to tighten the jaw screw, I use a nail, the head oof which I have removed (any short steel rod will do), which fits the hole in top of the jaw screw to tighten the screw...it prevents stripping the screw if the screwdriver slips. I also select flint size based on the width of the frizzen. Thanks for the tip of using the back of your knife to knap the flint...dispenses with the need for a knapping hammer in the field.
Many Thanks. These the sort of little practical details that you never worry about until you are about to try something for the first time! Very nicely timed for me too as I've just found that my first, new to me flinter came with a flint that is apparently physically too long - and shorter than recommended! At least I know how to put it back in now. Time permitting, it would be great if you could cover routine maintenance, particularly lubrication of the lock mechanism. Any gun used for target shooting is likely to work harder than one used for hunting, so lubrication would seem to be a good thing. Not on the frizzen face though - I worked that out!
I had a pedersoli 1816 harpers ferry musket that I used for early civil war reenacting, 20 plus years ago. I sold it to a friend of mine and I regret it! Love those flintlocks! I actually used old boot leather to hold my flints in place.
Good Video Mr. B. I only have cap guns do to no black powder sources in my area. You answered a lot of questions I had about flints I had concerning flints. Bought another barrel guess that means another build, Would have never started building guns if not for your videos. Thanks again.
Wish I could have looked at U-Tube videos 50 years ago when I first got a TC Hawken flintlock had to learn alot of things the hard way like the part about sharpening flint with the back of knife blade because I was never good at sharpening flints so will give it a try
Hello, I like your show Mike on the flintlock rifle , lock operation and flint maintenance. I really enjoy shooting a flint lock , as you do, and developing the best lock set-up and loading methods for it. I recently purchased a Virginia, James River, Long Rifle from Track of the Wolf and am anxious to take it out. This it is my first venture into purchasing hand-made rifles on-line. It is truly a beautiful 50 cal. rifle (44", "B" swamped Colerain barrel; has a fast, Chambers, Rounded surfaces , Southern style, early single trigger lock; curly maple stock and early style iron furniture. I like it also because the lock is like a fowler and holds flints that are a bit wider than typical rifles of the later period and the curly maple stock combines early features (Wider, fowler butt; Jaeger style patch box & lid; tapered and stepped sides in the lock area with light engraving in the cheek, wrist and forearm areas). I have one other hand-made rifle; a 50 cal. rifle made by Michael Beathe (Started the file-knife craze in the 80"s). He made the custom rifle for a movie and also provided an accompanying file-knife with the same curly stain and German silver metal as he used for the thimbles and nose piece of the rifle. The beauty and artistic endeavor in these old repro rifles far exceeds what is typically made today and offers a degree of satisfaction that brings a smile to your face when you handle them.
I am from Texas, West Texas and it took someone from Pennsylvania to tell me a bought one of two places in the USA to find flint. I had no idea of the flint quarries in the northern panhandle of Texas.
Great video! I'm in SAR and we have a lot of guys join and buy a cheap gun. One new guy came out for training and got off one shot and then....nothing. We determined that his frizzen needed to be hardened although this gun was purchased new. This discussion of flints is invaluable to new shooters....but don't forget the frizzen. If it's too soft, you won't get a spark. Good news....they can be hardened.
Iv used cap lock hawken for years with great success. Pssst... I use .44 cal pistol bullets in my .50 cal muzzle loader. Devastating on white tails. So I have a flint lock Kentucky rifle now it was a "kit gun" its .50 cal also . All this sort of thing is new to me thanks for the vedio
Great video. I don't have a flint lock but I would buy one if I could ever figure out how to consistently knap the Chert we have around here. I am about 90 miles north of the Georgetown Rock Quarry in Tx where there are deposits of flint rock. But finding chert around my area is not hard. The last I found was in a rock flower bed just laying right on top. And those are seen all around hear. I have made a couple of working flints for my buds FL rifle. And they worked.
I found a easy way to make flints. I know it's not the right way to do it because I can't nap to save my life. I bought a diamond cutoff wheel for my Dremel tool. Cut out the overall shape. Then nap the nose as if you had a doll Flint. And this is been working for me very well
I have a Lancaster style rifle built by the late Ken Ishler in the later 70’s. He had English flint in the gun when I bought it in the early 90’s. I could never get the gun to spark correctly with. I did have a lot of T/C flints on hand to which I is to this day. They work very well in the Siler lock. Get video and keep up with the good work .
I've been using flints that are a size down in my Pedersoli Bess lock, averaging over 50 shots with no issues. Possibly due to the fact that the flint isn't hitting as much of the hammer as is recommended? I am not sure, but it has been working for me.
Very helpful. You removed a lot of the mystery for me. I'm looking forward to the 12 ga frontier video. It could change my pheasant hunts forever- at least a couple of times a year.
Thank you Mike. Just a Traditions flintlock blunderbuss in kit form. I'm excited to start building it but didn't know what size flintlock to use. I'm going to Track of Wolf to see if they know. I got this shotgun because over in N.E. Ohio we have a reenactment where fur traders do their stuff and I come as a Mississippi River pirate or river plunderer. Yes, me crew, charge a river tax to canal boats and barges.
I have always subscribed to the theory that the flintlock properly tuned and with reasonably sharp flints should be able to spark without a frizzen spring.
There is flint rock lying around most of deep south Texas…I just pick up the size I want and break it to size or scrounge around until I find one just the right size…
I think that your be tutorial on placemt of a flint is based on many years of practical BB application. I would take your advice on this subject rather than alot of armchair warriors! I have found your advice to be be spot on. Without exception!
Many of you are correcting me on my definition of bevel up vs bevel down. So, I’ll concede that I must be in error.
My way is how I think of the bevel position based on the position of the edge of the flint pointing up or pointing down.
But so many people are correcting me, I have to concede that I my thinking is backwards.
Which one came first ? Since it is a video and you show what are you trying to say, i never think about it. But if i have to, i will go after the woodworking chiesel concept about bevel up and down. Just my 2 cents. BTW, my reference in woodworking is this guy. ruclips.net/video/ukJ2GgL50OQ/видео.html
bevel down ... point up, ok !!!
Personally, your way looks right to me. I only have 1 flintlock,( it's a Double Barrel pistol so I guess that's 2 Flintlocks) came with out flints. When they came in, size 5/8" I followed your methodology bevel up. I really need to fire that one of these days. Good video, it is much nicer these days with all the info on you tube. Back when I got my first black powder revolver, the only good info came in the back of the Dixie Gun Works catalog.
We all know what mike means regardless of which is “correct”.
Try rubbung a smidgin of pine sap sticky on your leather rap--it holds.
I have done many searches and read several books that covered the topic of flints, installing and knapping them. No instruction has been as clear and helpful as this. Mike has such a organized way of thinking and communicating. Thanks so much for your excellent work again!
Thanks. I’m glad you liked it.
Thanks for another excellent video, Mike. You're the only guy I know who can talk about a rock and make it interesting.
I’ve been a flintlock rifle owner for all of 4-5 months, so this video series has been incredibly helpful for me, so thank you!
I'm glad it is useful to you.
Useful, ✔️
Interesting, ✔️
Entertaining, ✔️
Thanks Mike
Mike, as a geologist-gun-guy I have a bit to offer on the subject. In terms of deposits in the U.S. there are thousands. Some is of much better quality, some worse. Flint is the same as chert except for color. In fact jasper, and petrified wood are also in the same category and should work in a pinch as well as agate. In fact it's all a form of SiO2 or quartz. It's all near a 7 on Moh's scale of hardness. Crystal quartz would work too. There are other rocks such as quartzite that will work, anything harder than the hard frizzen steel that breaks with a sharp edge. Here in my state of NY we have LOTS of it. There is one of the largest deposits of native flint mines on the east coast here in the Hudson valley and it will work as well but no one "makes" flints out of it. Maybe a new side job? Anyway, most flint or chert has too many fractures or is too brittle to work. You can fix this by heat treating your flint. Yes you heard me correct. Native tribes did it for a LONG time here. You can tell bc it often changes the colors. I once 30 yrs ago found what I think was flint on the side of a hill on the Vt. side of Lake Champlain where a soldier or indian tried making some? It was the site of a major battle so it's possible (Ft. Ticonderoga) you may have heard of it.
Well, I could go on but I'm sure your all board by now!
Great info! Thanks.
I'm new to flintlocks, your videos have helped me tremendously.
I’m glad I could help out.
I will probably never shoot a flintlock, but I’ve sure enjoyed learning about them. Thanks for the series!
Carful, they are like Fire Arms Crack, "Just say No!" or you will be All In!
Been shooting flint for 61 years. English flints have never let me down
Once again as a history nut I find this fascinating. The things our ancestors had to do simply to survive day to day really do amaze me. Thank you, Mike for another great video.
Agree. They did not have the daily "grind" that we have as well. Their job was to survive, not to pay taxes to the man. Wish I had lived then instead of now...👍
Great series on flintlocks Mike! Perhaps the new standard on the subject. Well done. One footnote on flintlocks in particular is the importance of eye protection. After shooting flintlocks steadily for a year with my new glasses.
It was evident that tiny chards of flint were pitting my glasses! Just a friendly reminder.🤓
Luckily, I need glasses to see, but you’re right. The same thing happens to my glasses.
I do not like them but I wear "oversized" safety glasses over my 900USD script glasses{I'm far sighted}when shootin the fire beathin dragon. I agree, my glasses were pitting as well...@@duelist1954
i just got into black powder shooting and ive learned so much from you! thank you!
Great stuff mike. I always wondered about flints and all the logistic aspects. Thumbs up
You definitely answered my question on sharpening flint. Thanks Mike!!👍
brand new to Flintlocks. I purchased a Traditions Woodsman flintlock kit. It’s been a fun learning curve. I’m about to stain the stock, so that tells you where I’m at in the process. Your instruction on the right flint was great. This will allow me to order the flints now so when the gun is finished, I’ll be ready to shoot. Thanks again for a great video and I look forward to watching other things you’ve done.
You are an incredible presenter, one of the best on RUclips.
I enjoy everything about flintlocks. That's all I have now. Modern guns are boring. I hunt and use them for food not a range guy. I have followed Mike for years and he does the best informed videos . It's simple thing like flints sights loads etc. That helps everyone from experience to inexperienced people. Great video like always God bless. 🙌
Hi from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your thoughts and adventures and history and information
Very clear directions and clear camera angles. Thank you.
You take the time and go into great detail which make your information very interesting. I always look forward to your videos; keep up the great your great work.
All the questions I didn't know I needed to ask about flints answered in one video. Thank you Sir!
Thanks for sharing this info on flints- I believe you answered any questions I was thinking of
I know this video was about flints, but that fowler is downright handsome. I am looking forward to seeing it in action in the upcoming video.
A video I was waiting for! Great instruction. Do one on establishing the load.
Mike a lot of good information on flints please keep this good infomation coming
Never knew about sharpening a flint in the jaws with the back of a knife. Nicely done!!
Thanks Mike for all the information. I doubt very much most people have any idea where flint comes from and some history about it. Your videos are always interesting.
Wanted to know how to sharpen a Flint. Thank you for such an informative video. 👌🤠👍
I have used a Flintlock hunting before but I never owned one just recently I purchased a new Lvman deer stalker, and your videos are very helpful for me to get started. Thank you.
I like that sharpening technique!
VERY informative video Mike! I had no idea there was so much involved with these. Now, I grew up in a little town named Zilwaukee Michigan. It's roughly 50 miles north of a town called Flint Michigan. Which was named that because of the flint rocks found there. I do not know if it is the correct type of flint for gun flints. But if I end up in that area again (i now live on the west side of Michigan, so it's a 2-3 hour drive to Flint Mi., depending on the route and traffic) I will definitely stop and wander around down by the river and look for some. I did some knapping (with obsidian) in my youth. So it's not a strange concept to me. As far as using lead to hold onto the flint in the cock, I can see how that would work. it would conform to the irregularities on the surface of the stone. Much like the leather does. Your method of sharpening a flint in the gun is genius! Something I doubt I would have thought of, at least unless I was in dire need to be able to shoot, and I had no alternative. That scenario (in need, with no normal alternative) is likely the reason lots of things are invented. I think if I was using a flintlock in competition, I would glue the leather to the stone and make certain that the cock was rough enough to really hold onto the leather TIGHT! Losing because the flint went flying would NOT be acceptable to me. Well, it's onto the next video until my morning cofee is gone, and it warms up a little. It's a whopping 40 degrees outside this morning. and I want it to be at least mid 50's before I go out to work.
Very informative video, I have used the French amber and the english flints. Like you I don’t see much difference. I like the T. Fuller ones from track.
Thanks again for the teaching. Good video as always.
Everything you present is outstanding, thanks for being the professor of BP.
Fine explanation of Flint setting and maintenance
thank you Mike
Recently retired, thinking about getting back into voyageur/buckskinning with flintlocks. Looking at kits so far, a lot to learn.
Used a canoe gun back in the late 70s, thinking a longer rifle this time.
Lots to learn/re-learn.
Thanks!
Mike keep it up love your videos been watching your videos long time you showed me how to shoot and clean my colt 1851 and 1860 now I’m getting into flintlocks rifles so keep them coming
Glad you liked it.
This whole series has been very helpful. Thanks Mike. Wish someone would have told me all this a few decades ago. BTW, love the English flints in my L&R lock. No more klatching, no more Flinchlock and plenty of spark.
That was a cool way to knap the flint, looking forward to trying it
Great video, Mike. I used to work at a historic site in Savannah, Georgia that was located along the river. In the 18th and 19th centuries, during the age of sail, ships used flint as ballast. They dumped their ballast along the river banks and today, you can canoe along the banks and find piles of flint. I suspect it is the same in most of the old cities, even around the Great Lakes.
Is it usable flint and is worth coming down and looking for it
@@keithfurman6245 It all depends. There are piles of it that locals used to make arrowheads. I have seen the dark english flint there but no french amber.
@@jwkennington thanks I was thanking about a family outing I’m not far away
Keith
Wow! You are helping us to decide afore or agin the flinter!
Thank you so much much great job. I appreciate everything you said I learned a lot.
Great job as always, you are a wealth of knowledge, and a excellent teacher. Keep up the great work.
Essential information, the tapping of the flint to sharpen it was very helpful.
Thank you I actually learned stuff I haven't thought of. And I've been playing with flintlocks for 7 years now and love them
Side note . You have to use real Black Powder in the pan nothing else works as well. Good luck finding it 🤠
Mike, instead of using a screwdriver to tighten the jaw screw, I use a nail, the head oof which I have removed (any short steel rod will do), which fits the hole in top of the jaw screw to tighten the screw...it prevents stripping the screw if the screwdriver slips. I also select flint size based on the width of the frizzen.
Thanks for the tip of using the back of your knife to knap the flint...dispenses with the need for a knapping hammer in the field.
Thank you for the information. I didn’t realize how little I knew about flint and my Cabela’s flintlock rifle.
Cool video, sharpening flint was very enlightening.
Thank you. Flintlocks were always an enigma for me. There is allot of assumed or lost knowledge. You certainly helped fill some gaps.
This is the first time I've heard of notching the leather. That seems like a great idea. Now, I gotta go to the range and try it!
My dad knaps and makes flints my favorite is jasper then english
Thanks Mike! These videos are the reason I got into flintlocks.
Hi Mike, thank you for the lesson on how to sharpening a flint.
Many Thanks. These the sort of little practical details that you never worry about until you are about to try something for the first time! Very nicely timed for me too as I've just found that my first, new to me flinter came with a flint that is apparently physically too long - and shorter than recommended! At least I know how to put it back in now.
Time permitting, it would be great if you could cover routine maintenance, particularly lubrication of the lock mechanism. Any gun used for target shooting is likely to work harder than one used for hunting, so lubrication would seem to be a good thing. Not on the frizzen face though - I worked that out!
I had a pedersoli 1816 harpers ferry musket that I used for early civil war reenacting, 20 plus years ago. I sold it to a friend of mine and I regret it! Love those flintlocks! I actually used old boot leather to hold my flints in place.
Delightful, my flintlock comes in on tuesday. I'll have all week to get the action working for the weekend. I can't wait. Another great video!
😂 I'm glad the French helped! We may very well have run out of flints! 😂 Great video Mike! You are the greatest! Thank you!
Thanks Mike it had answered a few questions on how i learned trial and error.
Great content! I always learn something new from your channel.
Good Video Mr. B. I only have cap guns do to no black powder sources in my area. You answered a lot of questions I had about flints I had concerning flints. Bought another barrel guess that means another build, Would have never started building guns if not for your videos. Thanks again.
Good stuff Mike. I have several percussion pistols and muskets, alas not a single flintlock. Perhaps it is time.....Thanks for the information.
This is a great video. I have a couple of flintlocks and this will help me if i have any problems with the flints. Keep up the good work.
Wish I could have looked at U-Tube videos 50 years ago when I first got a TC Hawken flintlock had to learn alot of things the hard way like the part about sharpening flint with the back of knife blade because I was never good at sharpening flints so will give it a try
Hello, I like your show Mike on the flintlock rifle , lock operation and flint maintenance. I really enjoy shooting a flint lock , as you do, and developing the best lock set-up and loading methods for it. I recently purchased a Virginia, James River, Long Rifle from Track of the Wolf and am anxious to take it out. This it is my first venture into purchasing hand-made rifles on-line. It is truly a beautiful 50 cal. rifle (44", "B" swamped Colerain barrel; has a fast, Chambers, Rounded surfaces , Southern style, early single trigger lock; curly maple stock and early style iron furniture. I like it also because the lock is like a fowler and holds flints that are a bit wider than typical rifles of the later period and the curly maple stock combines early features (Wider, fowler butt; Jaeger style patch box & lid; tapered and stepped sides in the lock area with light engraving in the cheek, wrist and forearm areas).
I have one other hand-made rifle; a 50 cal. rifle made by Michael Beathe (Started the file-knife craze in the 80"s). He made the custom rifle for a movie and also provided an accompanying file-knife with the same curly stain and German silver metal as he used for the thimbles and nose piece of the rifle.
The beauty and artistic endeavor in these old repro rifles far exceeds what is typically made today and offers a degree of satisfaction that brings a smile to your face when you handle them.
Those sound like a couple of great rifles.
Useful because I just purchased a flintlock rifle.
I am from Texas, West Texas and it took someone from Pennsylvania to tell me a bought one of two places in the USA to find flint. I had no idea of the flint quarries in the northern panhandle of Texas.
That video makes a lot of sense...... enjoyed every moment, thanks Mike
Great video! I'm in SAR and we have a lot of guys join and buy a cheap gun. One new guy came out for training and got off one shot and then....nothing. We determined that his frizzen needed to be hardened although this gun was purchased new. This discussion of flints is invaluable to new shooters....but don't forget the frizzen. If it's too soft, you won't get a spark. Good news....they can be hardened.
Got my first flintlock today. Great video
Just found your channel. Such a golden, informative video, thank you!
Great series for beginners. Now I just need some $$$ lol
I'm new to flintlocks just picked up a lyman deerstalker flintlock made investa arms
We had a lot of Flint around when I was a kid. From the Lead Mines in Picher Oklahoma.
Very informative and understandable. Good job.
Ben
Very cool!!! I learned a lot and am grateful!! Great job on the video and thank you for sharing this very important topic!
Thanks Mike. Bygone days of technology, but it lasted for a long time. Great information.
Iv used cap lock hawken for years with great success. Pssst... I use .44 cal pistol bullets in my .50 cal muzzle loader. Devastating on white tails. So I have a flint lock Kentucky rifle now it was a "kit gun" its .50 cal also . All this sort of thing is new to me thanks for the vedio
Great video. I don't have a flint lock but I would buy one if I could ever figure out how to consistently knap the Chert we have around here. I am about 90 miles north of the Georgetown Rock Quarry in Tx where there are deposits of flint rock. But finding chert around my area is not hard. The last I found was in a rock flower bed just laying right on top. And those are seen all around hear. I have made a couple of working flints for my buds FL rifle. And they worked.
I found a easy way to make flints. I know it's not the right way to do it because I can't nap to save my life. I bought a diamond cutoff wheel for my Dremel tool. Cut out the overall shape. Then nap the nose as if you had a doll Flint. And this is been working for me very well
Good instruction first time I have ever seen a class on a very important subject. I prefer English flint. Kentucky has good flint.
I have a Lancaster style rifle built by the late Ken Ishler in the later 70’s. He had English flint in the gun when I bought it in the early 90’s. I could never get the gun to spark correctly with. I did have a lot of T/C flints on hand to which I is to this day. They work very well in the Siler lock. Get video and keep up with the good work .
That's awesome just ordered a 36 flintlock kibler I have 9caplicks this will be my first flint
Definitely help me out thank you
An excellent video! Thanks. Everything was something I did not know.
Thanks for some very useful information and showing how to resharpen a flint.
I’m glad you liked it.
Thanks!
Very simple on the napping. I see so many people that say you have to have special tools.
Really great video Sir, thanks for posting this lots of great information
Fascinating, cant wait to get my first flintlock. Moving on from percussion 🇺🇸
I've been using flints that are a size down in my Pedersoli Bess lock, averaging over 50 shots with no issues. Possibly due to the fact that the flint isn't hitting as much of the hammer as is recommended? I am not sure, but it has been working for me.
Funny that you write/ say that.
I too use one flint size down in my first model Brown Bess. It really does work BEST!
@@ENIGMAXII2112 Interesting, glad I am not the only one doing it wrong! ha
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Oh YES!
But we have better results. So our "mistakes" are good ones.
Don't you just LOVE Black Powder Shooting!
Very helpful. You removed a lot of the mystery for me. I'm looking forward to the 12 ga frontier video. It could change my pheasant hunts forever- at least a couple of times a year.
A needed explanation of flints. Thanks.
I’m finding a great deal of respect for the cap. It must’ve been hailed as a massive improvement!
Thank you Mike. Just a Traditions flintlock blunderbuss in kit form. I'm excited to start building it but didn't know what size flintlock to use. I'm going to Track of Wolf to see if they know. I got this shotgun because over in N.E. Ohio we have a reenactment where fur traders do their stuff and I come as a Mississippi River pirate or river plunderer. Yes, me crew, charge a river tax to canal boats and barges.
I have always subscribed to the theory that the flintlock properly tuned and with reasonably sharp flints should be able to spark without a frizzen spring.
Very educational, I'm starting to want a flintlock.
Thank you Mike, to a total novice that's the voodoo part. Greatly appreciated
I hope it helped.
There is flint rock lying around most of deep south Texas…I just pick up the size I want and break it to size or scrounge around until I find one just the right size…
Good Stuff. Never seen anybody else do a video on this. Heard about the bevel Down method but never tried it. Good to know. Thanks.
I think that your be tutorial on placemt of a flint is based on many years of practical BB application. I would take your advice on this subject rather than alot of armchair warriors! I have found your advice to be be spot on. Without exception!
That was great! Interesting! Useful! Thank you sir, as always a pleasure! 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
“If it’ll throw a spark it’ll spark the charge!”