hawken is my actual name so this is very cool

Good video, worst toupee I have ever seen.

Why weren't minnie balls used with percussion pistols like they were with long guns?

Wow, that notched breech plug installed into a barrel is going to be impossible to clean.

Grazie per le informazioni per le modifiche apportate al revolver. Ottima performance. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🫶

I think you should at least put a tail or a head an set of ears on your hat

I'm reading the comments about how good Thompson and Lyman are. But I do a search and find out that neither are producing guns anymore. Thompson claims they will have a new line up for sometime in 2025. Now who do I go to for a custom rifle?

I have a Thompson center flintlock 50 caliber and the only thing I did was I had the Frozen hardened. Other than that, I have never ever ever ever had a misfire! And I use goex 4f and 2f power

Did he really say that an assembly line system can't put the vent hole in line with the pan? If that were true, how would our car engines work? Does he REALLY think that foreign manufacturers can't harden a frizzen? Twaddle.

Recommendation for muzzle loading shot: 1. Premade paper wads and load 2 types of shot that are 2 numbers apart. The smaller size number and higher quantity should be the shot you desire. Larger and less is 2 size removed. Pack tight into paper cup or cloth bag in layers using bore butter. I use wooden mold for that step. Load it all at once into musket. It keeps perfectly balanced groups and loads fast. Powder, wad, paper "cannister". Prime and shoot. Duck, geese, phesant, dove, rabbit; always works great.

Love the video!

Bent sear & cost of replacement lock versus complete kit. Sounds like those old CVAs.

Thank you

Stop talk n get on with it

Nice to see someone posting actual information rather than clickbait. I used to have ( correct me if I’m wrong) a Roger’s and Spencer made in Spain I think. It was the best BP revolver I ever owned. Thanks for the post.

Please give us the best American lock maker making rifled Kentucky long rifles flintlocks.

Counter bore the inside of the touch hole liner to bring the main charge closer to the pan. Doesnt take much. Also, you dont want to fill the pan. Just a little is all you need otherwise you get a "fuse" effect that can give you a hang fire.

Can one use agate ? I live in Gallatin county land of agate -

Love your work.

Hi Where did you get the RED cartridge mandrel

Turner Kirkland, decades ago, wrote an article in his catalog on how to case harden a frizzen.

Muy interesante video. Esos problemas también suceden en los rifles de percusión . Es deprimente cuando un fulminante falla . Pero trabajo con toda paciencia tratando de lograr crear un cebo correcto que no tengan fallas . Mi saludos amigo

Thanknyou

How are the Pedersoli guns?

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That’s why assembly lines use jig fixtures.

1.5 speed is great, just like for my college lectures.

Who is they that you refference that do not want us to know?

What you need is way less beeswax should be more like 80 20 That is why the thick coating the beeswax is hardening. I will stick to my 22grains and round balls all day long! The cartridges are way to much work for no gain in my opinion. Been in this game 55 years old habits hard to break lol.

Very well put, thanks but its too late for me.I just ordered a pedersoli flintlock and already regretting it

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Can you case harden the soft oned?

That’s a damn nice one you’ve got there. My dad also had a great copy he shot for many years that was made by the late Bill keil from Atlanta. Pop traded it to one of his buddies in the early nineties or there about for a really nice single action army. The buddy he traded it to has since passed on as well as my Dad. I would pay a pretty penny to have his old rifle back.

Hey man I just found your channel do you still make any videos?

I have also been into black powder since the early 80s. I don't know the manufacturer of the piece at the beginning of this video but I have been shooting Pedersoli's for decades, I have never had an issue that wasn't due to stupid human tricks,. The guns I have owned have all been quality and I have taken deer and shot them in competition. I have beaten folks with $4000 custom guns, we are perfectly capable of making crap here same as they do overseas. With the exception of my new Pennsylvania, all of my flintlocks have over a thousand rounds each (I shoot at least one of them every weekend on several of the ranges at the club). I have just sighted in my new Pedersoli Pennsylvania, it performed wonderfully. I expect to get the same level of enjoyment from this gun as all the others. Given that I now have 5 Perersoli's and all are excellent, your "Stars line up" line is also bunk... I am sure that I could point out a couple of crap imported brands, but I can also point out as many bad US custom shops. You cannot credibly state that all overseas replicas manufacturers make junk, go on over to capandball.com and tell him that.

1.5X for better viewing.

Bought a Stainless 1858 Remington. How can you tell if it a Pietta or Uberti. Mine as a dovetailed front sight and horizontal grooves n the hammer.

I am interested on a flintlock pistol foe two reasons: 1 - to get rid of excessive regulations (my country is ruled by commies) 2 - I believe the huge lock time will improve my trigger control with centerfire pistols because the hand must retain its position longer to avoid the flinch. The longer the locking time the better the pistol will be as a training aid for me (not so long, of course). Very interested. Maybe I could design one for me.

I live in Romania 🇷🇴 im 27 , in my country common people rarely own guns due to high taxes imposed by the government and the birocracy when you try to becom a gun owner also hunting is a luxury here that few can afford I myself im in love with flintlocks and all about history of these firearms and i wish to fire one at least one time in my life , currently working as a lorry driver , i thinking about moving into US just for this reason to work as a honest man and to have access to my passion!

I believe those flashes in the pan at 2:00 were due to the use of a bp substitute in the pan. The powder in the pan is burning like Pyrodex - the hissing sound is characteristic, as is the slow burn. P-dex is awful stuff, it is much more corrosive than bp and its burning characteristics are not correct for flintlocks.

I just got me a .54 Hawken. I live in Alamogordo.

Keep your powder dry.

Who is this mysterious "they" I'm always reading about online that's not wanting me to know things? I'm starting to think the "they" always alluded to in clickbait headline titles are not actually real and not keeping me from anything, even not wasting my time clicking on things to find out what someone says the things "they" "don't want you to know..."! 😂😂😂

Whatare we talking about here? Traditions Lymans CVA? What about pedersoli ? Investarms?

For a newbie looking to get into the sport to forego buying a factory gun so they can save up for a custom is just silly. The factory guns today WORK, they will put meat on the table, teach the techniques and let someone know whether they want to pursue the sport. I have both factory and custom. No difference in reliability but the factory guns are more accurate.

Looks like the flash in the pan was using “fake” black powder like Pyrodex and not real black powder

Good stuff. I have found with patent breech rifles that the cleaning method recommended by T/C back when they actually produced traditional BP firearms, was to remove the barrel and nipple, stick the breech end into a bucket of hot water and pump a cleaning path up and down the bore until the water coming out of the muzzle is clean. It takes care of the breech and heats up the bore to dry. Then of course make sure the barrel is completely dry and lubricate. Like you said there are a lot of ways to clean BP firearms.

never had to modify mine at all conical loaded with no problem

Also what grain powder are you using?

Do you find better accuracy with the conical bullets vs the round ball?