Author Topic: bulk deal on flints  (Read 12654 times)

Offline hanshi

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5335
  • My passion is longrifles!
    • martialartsusa.com
Re: bulk deal on flints
« Reply #25 on: December 11, 2020, 02:40:43 AM »
It's been a while since I got the ones I ordered.  Lots of big, and I mean big, flints, some the right size, some pieces that just happened to fit in Large Silers, and a few easily used as-is or broke to the right size.  I still have most of them left and what I've used so far seemed to work just fine.  Quite a few were amber flints and most were dark flints.  I'd say it was worth it.
!Jozai Senjo! "always present on the battlefield"
Young guys should hang out with old guys; old guys know stuff.

Online john bohan

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 340
Re: bulk deal on flints
« Reply #26 on: December 11, 2020, 09:04:01 PM »
you can trim or resharpen flints on a lapidary saw or trim saw.you hold them only with your finger. Harbor freight has one that works good .

Offline okawbow

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 909
  • West Tennessee/ Southern Illinois
Re: bulk deal on flints
« Reply #27 on: December 16, 2020, 07:08:44 PM »
I just received a pound of their flints. $29.95 plus about $9.00 shipping. Counted 40 usable flints and 5 rocks.
About 20 were decent quality musket flints. The rest had humps or were odd shaped, but usable. A few would fit my Davis Colonial lock well.

Good value if you need musket flints. A bonus that they are over 200 years old.

 Some are large enough to saw in half and get two usable flints.
As in life; it’s the journey, not the destination. How you get there matters most.