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Flintlock Fowler

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Ordered a Kibler Fowler flintlock kit for a side project and turkey & deer black powder hunting. Used to hunt with the cap and ball rifle for deer for the black powder season. This will be my first flint gun other than an old Brown Bess we had in the family farmhouse that no one would trust to fire. I'll post a few pictures when it arrives, probably will be a while. This is my first kit gun looking forward to the build and finish.

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That’s a nice project. I put together one of those double trigger Hawkins .50 cal kits 35 years ago. Still have it but I wore the sear down to a hair trigger. Haven’t fired it in years but boy did I have good time with it at the range. Have fun with it.

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That will be a fun project. I don't own any black powder/flintlock guns, but I've thought a few times over the years about getting something like that to add to the collection. I really wish I would have bought one of the old black powder Navy style revolvers years ago. I remember when you could get those for $99.99, and when I started looking at them a few months back, they are all $200-$300 range these days.

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Cool project. I hunt w/ a .50 cal Hawken repro and have  a of Colt Navy .36 cal repro and Colt Army .44 cal repro.  I often times find cap and ball more fun than "modern" arms. Been contemplating getting or building a flinter.

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20 hours ago, Sandan said:

Been contemplating getting or building a flinter.

I looked for a while and settled on the Kibler kit, all the inletting is completed just needs final fitting and finishing, and they have a very nice lock, considered a Pedersoli out of the box they are a nice gun, but I wanted something a little different than their trade gun. I hunt with a T/C Hawken .54 or a .50 rolling block muzzleloader (Pedersoli the closest I come to a modern in line). After covid and the shortage of caps the flinter idea grew stronger, Connecticut's modern rifle season is private land only and hard to get tags for additionally I can hunt primitive weapons during shotgun season. Hopeful to hunt with it for the spring turkey season.

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1 hour ago, cphubert said:

I looked for a while and settled on the Kibler kit, all the inletting is completed just needs final fitting and finishing, and they have a very nice lock, considered a Pedersoli out of the box they are a nice gun, but I wanted something a little different than their trade gun. I hunt with a T/C Hawken .54 or a .50 rolling block muzzleloader (Pedersoli the closest I come to a modern in line). After covid and the shortage of caps the flinter idea grew stronger, Connecticut's modern rifle season is private land only and hard to get tags for additionally I can hunt primitive weapons during shotgun season. Hopeful to hunt with it for the spring turkey season.

I hear those Kiblers are pretty nice. Their locks get good reviews. The big thing that's holding me back from a flinter and I'm up in the air as to whether ist's a big deal is I shoot lefty and having that pan ignite so close to my eye kinda gives me second thoughts. My hawken is a lefty.  I know what you are talking about regarding caps and even holy black shortages. A few years ago I bought about 5,000 caps and 10 lbs of FFFg Goex, just to be stocked. Got it all    from Graf and Sons but it seems like they only have their house brand, Schuetzen and Swiss.  I'm prob gonna put in for a spring turkey tag.

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8 hours ago, Sandan said:

I shoot lefty and having that pan ignite so close to my eye kinda gives me second thoughts

Yep, I am a southpaw myself, but I'll shoot righty with this one and the rest of my smoke poles. Shoot ambidextrous thanks to my grandfather, he insisted I learn to shoot righty as a kid. I am still truly left eye dominant but fully able to shoot rifles and shotguns with right eye, sidearms, left is my strong side.

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22 hours ago, cphubert said:

Yep, I am a southpaw myself, but I'll shoot righty with this one and the rest of my smoke poles. Shoot ambidextrous thanks to my grandfather, he insisted I learn to shoot righty as a kid. I am still truly left eye dominant but fully able to shoot rifles and shotguns with right eye, sidearms, left is my strong side.

I envy you that. I swing a golf club righthanded. I can cast my fly rod with either hand, but it took a lot of practice.

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50 minutes ago, Sandan said:

golf club righthanded

other than a putter and mini golf I've never swung a club in my life, and to be honest I can't remember much about the mini golf, there was a lot of alcohol involved in that period of my life

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