Any flintlock hunters around here?

[Brian Stewart]

Here's two of the flinters my 16 year old hunts with. Ones a 54 cal we put together from a Kibler kit for him to use on elk this year and the other is one of 3 matching turkey Fowlers dad, Berkley and I have that are awesome on turkeys.

 

[HighUintas]

I did a little bit of work on my rear sight notch to make the aiming a little more repeatable. I widened it and squared it up as it was pretty narrow and u-shaped on the bottom. I think it would work pretty well if the rear blade was flat across the top instead of semi buckhorn. The curves make it a little harder to keep the elevation consistent. It's also likely that the vertical stringing is purely from front blade placement on the Target in my site picture.

It started out okay, but I started getting flinchy on the last four, which is very obvious when you have that slight delay in ignition.

I always start flinching after a while when I shoot my hunting load in this gun very much. 280 grain ball and 130 grain charge of powder produces a good bit of recoil with a crescent metal butt plate. That and the pan going off in my vision.

I'm thinking putting a globe front sight and peep rear on and a lot more practice, and I should be good to go to 100-125.

100yd. 15shots. Last 4 circled. Slight right wind I didn't hold for.

 

[blackdog of vt]

Harvested several texas hogs this spring with my .62 with paper cartridges. All full pass through and drop dead kills. Shot about everything else with a flinter and hog has been on the list awhile. Still hunting with kids isnt easy but damn sure is fun.

 

[Globe_trotter21]

Following.

 

[HighUintas]

Practiced a little more. Those hefty 130gr charges have me flinching pretty badly, so I've got to do some work on that with lower charges.

Here's 80gr at 100. 10 shots total. 1 was to get on paper (not shown) and another was a huge flinch (not shown). That's a 3-4" group for 8 shots. Not bad.

Next is to get out with the 10" steel plate in the woods and see if I can reliably hit it out to 125 or so from various positions.