I think it would be fun to explore myself
What you chose to do in the privacy of your own home, with your shades drawn tight I hope, is completely up to you!
Seriously, I am a hardcore flintlock shooter. I shoot a .50 Early Lancaster style (circa 1760), the lock is a customized large Siler, the barrel is a button rifled swamped Colerain, with brass hardware, and a single trigger inletted carefully to provide just a bit under 3 lbs of pull with no creep or travel (she breaks like thin glass). I've taken 8 deer with that gun and I have yet to finish carving down the stock and laying on a finish! Part of that is because I have only just recently decided on a style of carving I want on the buttstock.
I also own a Wilderness Mountain Arms (they are now defunct, sadly) .36 Tennessee rifle in fine curly maple and plain brass furniture. She's called Perty Gurl, because she's tall and skinny with just enough curves to draw the eye...and she'll take your heart out with one shot.
The .50 is called
Lux. From the Latin term
lux et veritas, translates as "light and truth". With the swamped barrel taking 1.8 lbs of steel of the weight, "Light" is a good name for her, she also shoots straight as a beam of light. Well, she does, but I don't. The plan is to build a flinter .50 cal pistol to match and name the pistol "Veritas".
I just finished building two antelope priming horns for flintlock shooters and I have a third horn to get started on. I plugged the end of the horn with osage, wow does it look pretty against the black horn! I'm also working on a shooting bag, leather, cotton canvas lining with pockets, woven strap with a buckle and leather strap adustment. I hope to find a nice shaped raw horn to make into a simple powderhorn, too. I hope to have all of them done before the Tennessee Classic.
