Shot my first flintlock today

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Well today, at Colonial Williamsburg, I got to shoot my first flintlocks, a 72 calibur Brown Bess musket and a 62 calibur fowler. What a blast!!!(no pun intended) Both were replicas. The fowler was made by Jim Chambers Flintlocks out of Candler, NC. I highly recommend if you are planning on visiting Colonial Williamsburg to check them out. The RSO and range guys were super to work with. So now I not only suck at pistols and ARs, but flintlocks too:cool:
 
Tatershooter said:
Well today, at Colonial Williamsburg, I got to shoot my first flintlocks, a 72 calibur Brown Bess musket and a 62 calibur fowler. What a blast!!!(no pun intended) Both were replicas. The fowler was made by Jim Chambers Flintlocks out of Candler, NC. I highly recommend if you are planning on visiting Colonial Williamsburg to check them out. The RSO and range guys were super to work with. So now I not only suck at pistols and ARs, but flintlocks too:cool:
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You should think about hanging out with my crew!

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Jmoser said:
Your wardrobe budget exceeds my gun budget !!!
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Years of being a reenactor and knowing lots of folks in that hobby and you accumulate a few things..

Nearly everything we're wearing we either made, was gotten second hand or bought cheapo. Let's face it, most modern shops don't cater to those who would feel comfortable in the 18th and 19th century.
 
Jmoser said:
I bought my Hawken used with all the powder and balls etc., used to go to PA this time of year for the flintlock only deer season. Need to get back out and shoot it, tons of fun. Plus great wall art.
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Beautiful piece! I’ve always loved the look of a Hawken displayed on a wall!
 
Now passed (2019) dear friend of mine Larry Burwell of Indiana built flintlocks 'in the day',
would build, take to Friendship and shoot in a match, then sell.
He signed his rifles, but never numbered them...
He was a millwright for GM and also in the past restored model A fords...

He called me one day and said he found one of his rifles on the web, on a sale site, contacted the poster and he said it was sold and
was on its way to France. There was a group in France that did period 'mountain men' rendezvous in France...
they were 'hard core'.... if their event involved traveling a river, they cut a tree and made a dugout canoe!

He had contact from the Frenchman, who sent him images of himself in his garb (buckskin clothes, a flintlock pistol, a tomahawk, big knife, and
coonskin cap, holding what was Larry's rifle... i think i lost those images in a hard drive crash :(

Here's a story on Larry.... geeze I miss this guy!

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Armstrong Rifle by Larry Burwell

Here are some views of the 'John Armstrong' I finished in the Spring of 2011 after so many idle years of other hobbies like restoring Mod...
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the rifle pictured there was one of his last... about when he retired from GM.
 
Some of those old school autoworkers were top shelf gunsmiths. Greater Detroit was a shooting Mecca for decades, had to live there to appreciate the culture.
 
Jmoser said:
Some of those old school autoworkers were top shelf gunsmiths. Greater Detroit was a shooting Mecca for decades, had to live there to appreciate the culture.
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My father was a machinist for GM in Lansing during the 70s—>90s. There was indeed a big contingent of those guys into the ML scene.

Here are just a few of his hanging on my wall

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