Historically Correct Flintlocks

[bgf]

Also, #90, now percussion, but made with vent pick holder...

[jerrywh]

 I am positive I have several photos of half stock flintlock So called Kentucky rifles. I always considered a Kentucky rifle or a American long rifle as a full stock but it is not so  amongst the collectors nor is it so in the antique auction catalogs. There were also long rifles made in England for export into the States.

[oldtravler61]

Just wondering. As like now, If the customer wanted a half stock flintlock.
 You don't thank he would have made it for his buyer. Or would he tell them to go somewhere else. Just wondering. Just because there are few surviving pieces doesn't mean that they were uncommon. Me thanks ww 1 an w w 2 metal drives might have gathered up a few. Yeah think?

[okieboy]

"Just because there are few surviving pieces doesn't mean that they were uncommon. Me thanks ww 1 an w w 2 metal drives might have gathered up a few. Yeah think?"

 Yes, but why did they so thoroughly melt almost every half stock flint and refuse so many of the half stock percussions that we have remaining?

[Mike Brooks]

"Just because there are few surviving pieces doesn't mean that they were uncommon. Me thanks ww 1 an w w 2 metal drives might have gathered up a few. Yeah think?"

 Yes, but why did they so thoroughly melt almost every half stock flint and refuse so many of the half stock percussions that we have remaining?

Obviously flint haters....

[rhbrink]

So it begs the question how many half stock percussion rifles were originally flint that were changed over some time in their lives. I would bet more than a few.  I do think that there is nothing prettier than a long barreled full stock flinter but if I'm target shooting and hunting the X on every shot I will take a half stock every time over a full stock. PERIOD!!!!!

RB

[oldtravler61]

Me thinks there might be a few here that might big to differ on that. But as in something else we all have opinions.

[Clark Badgett]

"Just because there are few surviving pieces doesn't mean that they were uncommon. Me thanks ww 1 an w w 2 metal drives might have gathered up a few. Yeah think?"

 Yes, but why did they so thoroughly melt almost every half stock flint and refuse so many of the half stock percussions that we have remaining?

Because there were most likely a lot more half stock percussion guns made than longrifles. There was this whole westward expansion and immigration thing going on with small shops and factories cranking them out. Just about every major city had a gunmaker or two.