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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: tom coffey on November 29, 2018, 01:51:56 AM
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Pardon me for asking if this subject is frowned upon here, but assuming some here shoot "storebought" muzzleloaders, has anyone converted an off-the rack cap buster to flintlock? Anything besides the obvious involved? Thanks.
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Which gun?
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I didn't have a particular gun in mind, actually was wondering which ones were the best candidates for conversion, I guess.
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If you haven't bought a gun yet. Why not buy a flintlock? Converting some guns could be expensive.
What sort of gun interest you? Longrifle or Hawken?
How much do you want to spend?
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I agree with OldMtnMan. Why not start with a flinter? I did buy an extremely nice cap gun for my wife when we started shooting flintlocks. She about slit my throat when I got it and she found out it was percussion. Luckily it had a small siler lock and drum. I bought a Chambers small siler lock and a white lightning liner and converted it to flint. I did have to take a lot of wood out to get it the lock to sit right and fit. It came out good and that little 32 is her favorite rifle. I might have just got lucky but that’s my experience. If that little rifle wasn’t so nice I wouldn’t have bought it cause I have no desire to shoot percussion rifles.
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I didn't have a particular gun in mind, actually was wondering which ones were the best candidates for conversion, I guess.
The best candidates are those with a drum and nipple set up. For example, Pedersoli has four models that are easily converted back and forth - percussion to flint and vice versa - by swapping out the locks and the drum & nipple/flash hole liner; the Frontier, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Alamo.
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Save yourself the headache. Just buy a good quality flintlock at the price you can afford. You will be much happier in the long run. Yeah don't have to ask me how I know... Oldtravler
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I once bought a Pedersoli flintlock and fitted a percussion lock so I could use either one. Percussion to flint is much easier than flint to percussion.
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Not to be a smart butt...... but why?
As stated above why don't you just by a flinter in your budget and be done with it.
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Taylor and I built this pistol for me for rendezvous. It has a 60" .54 bl. and a Durs Egg flint lock. After the first rendezvous, we discussed 'this' and decided if I wanted to be competitive
in the pistol contests, I needed a cap-lock with a pistol twist, thus, the Durs(I think) Egg cap lock, drum and 18" twist .45 barrel. So- I went the other way, from flint to cap.
It is totally convertible, all I have to do is change the barrel and lock.
(https://i.ibb.co/TB24RNX/54-English-Holster-Pistol-right-side.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8Dsr2Q3)
(https://i.ibb.co/2yKLBDG/IMG-2627.jpg) (https://ibb.co/NsYkz8c)