that's interesting..... i'll bet here that later built guns are far more common as flintlocks than percussion. I think people here build their long guns just to shoot them and people by you build their long guns to hunt with them. thus a percussion is a bit more reliable as a hunting weapon.
I was asking purely in the case of original orientation. flintlocks that are still flintlocks and conversions that started out as a flintlock vs. percussions built during the percussion era. as far as conversion goes, it really doesn't matter if it is a converted gun or not, it is still originally built as a flintlock, so it would go in that category as far as survivor status goes,... I would think anyways. there are plenty of original flint guns with replaced flint locks as well... I don't think a new lock, be it a conversion or a similar replacement, changes the fact that the gun is an original gun and should be put in the category of it's original orientation..
