Very cool video, Peter. Thanks for sharing.
Everyone who would call himself a "rifleman" should have a flintlock and be adept with it. I built my one and only almost 40 years ago from the Dixie Gun Works kit. Mine is a Southern "Poor Boy" pattern, from way down south in the Appalachians. The stock is cherry wood, and all of the furniture is iron, rather than fancy brass. No fancy patch box, no carving or engraving, no adornments of any kind. Definitely a poor working man's rifle.
I used to hunt our muzzle loading deer seasons with it every year. Pretty challenging sometimes, in our wet Pacific Northwest. It proved every bit as capable of taking deer as it must have been in the 18th century. My load of a .495" diameter round ball in an .015" thick pillow ticking patch, over a stiff load of 110 grains of FFg took several deer over the years. I don't hunt with it anymore, but still get it out for some fun plinking every now and then.
