I spent the afternoon in one of my log hunting blinds. I had a button head at 15 yards and a couple of does at 40 but the does were looking at me which makes a flintlock shot difficult so I passed.
The rifle is a .54 I made several years ago, not the best crafting job but it gets it done and is very accurate.
I sit with the gun cocked and a leather cover over the frizzen (no sparks) so it can't go off accidently. It is a lot easier to flip the frizzen cover off than to try to cock the hammer quietly with cold hands in the heat of the battle. It takes a bunch of of pressure to cock the hammer, flintlock main springs are really stout.