I fixed it, but it was like gettingwater from a rock!
MCgunner, yes Sir I lost my knife and didn't know it. That was pre re-enactment for me and I had just one knife that day. Now I carry more.
Bolt guns like that .22. I pull the trigger lefty, and reach over to work the bolt in any possition not prone.
In Prone i work the bolt with my right hand which isn't doing anything anyway.
Shot guns thart have the safety tab on the top of the wrist like LC Smith and my Baker I think are lefty guns as is Sam Colts BP six guns which have gotta be lefty guns if you ask me.
I hold the gun in my left hand all the time. Load it that way and shoot it that same way. That's not lefty?
cross bolts safety like Ruger 10-22 I reach under the trigger guard with any finger not my index finger... being polite it is the longest finger..
With a flinter it isn't the rock that is burning it is the steel that is buring, and it will burn white hot wet. I do bee's wax the edges of the pan, to seal out water hunting, I may hold the lock under my coat, up my sleeve in a egyptian cotton frock also oiled, or rarely use a 'cow's knee' which is no more than a leather cover well oiled tied over the lock, but I tend to hate these.
Rain is worse than snow, but it sounds tuffer. LOL Once you get it down you can drop a flinter in a pond and leave it there awhile.
(disclaimer: be certain there is no water obstructing the bore, or you go boom)
Another trick for dueling, not that 'we' would get to use it is to add bee's wax over the prime to seal it off. This lets you fake the other guy into thinkiing your load is not going to fire.
It is rarer since most duels were fought with the 2nds over seeing the pistols loaded.
The time comes when a horseman and a man on the ground are dueling in a un-even match. You just pick these things up in 3 decades of messin about in BP.
I started just like anyone shooting as a lad in the 50's.. I got my first .22 at 6 years old and shortly after got knocked on my keyster shooting a 03, 30-06.
In my early 20's I went to BP, and messed with cap lock kits working backwards. I didn't know it, but it was a No Brainer that I would end up with some horrid flintlocks, but when the price is 35 bucko's you tend to know it ain't the gun.
About that time I got hurt bad, and it still hurts bad, like right now. That changed my life, and i found groups doing 'car camping' which was better than no camping, and fun, since they were sure dressed funny.
They had the habit to sit up late at night around a fire and tell enormouse lies, which i thought was fun too.
At that time I was no gray beard, but i guess I am now.
I move slow, Flinters sorta work slow, but then it get odd, since I am adept with them and anyone not becomes slower than I am, which then somehow makes me fast.
Weird huh?
Once I lived off the land for 1,095 days. More days really but I like the looks of that number. Did it in a tee pee and one winter was in NH USA.
Well once I took my bride to get new eye glasses and everyone got the munchies because they all thought we had come from a BBQ. Trying to explain we lived in a chimney just was to far out of normal. Just to weird.
All Hell breaks loose, and the last gun, or is it the first gun on my list is a flinter? You decide.