How To Use Flintlock In A Sentence
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Modern-day pirates have traded in galleons and flintlocks for high-speed motor launches and semi-automatic rifles.
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I have a sawback flintlock pistol that replicates a dueler (a Traditions Trapper) in 50 caliber.
Transmitting History
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When a flintlock guy jumped on board with me, I gave him grief because his newfangled peice was "rifled", not a smoothbore like mine.
The Gun Nut Survey: A highly biased, unofficial poll of 2,000 readers on all things shooting
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One carried an old-fashioned rifle that looked like a flintlock.
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Two centuries ago, soldiers called fusiliers, who were armed with light flintlock muskets, fought on battlefields using tactics and formations trained on the parade field.
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Traditional, or as many call them real, muzzle loaders are either percussion cap fired or flintlock.
Okay muzzleloaders! I know NOTHING about these rifles, please inform and entertain me with your wisdom!
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At any time during a political debate Washington was permitted to remove a flintlock pistol from his trousers and shoot off a finger of his rival.
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But colonists' victories were rare in the first half of a war that saw more than a dozen towns burned and entire companies ambushed by Indian marksmen firing flintlock muskets.
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This system of firearms ignition replaced the flintlock in the early 19th century.
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All submitted comments are subject to the rules set forth in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. from mosinman123 wrote 7 weeks 3 days ago yo man im 19 and im with you when i use a muzleloader i like that old style feel. of a flintlock or caplock muzleloader. if it was goog enough for elmer fud then its good enough for me.
Old tradional muzzelloaders or the new inlines
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It was actuated by stepping on it or by tripping a wire along the ground that released a flintlock igniter to fire the main charge.
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In my opinion flintlock is a lot more fun, but that flash of priming powder going off in the pan right in front of your face takes a little getting used to.
Okay muzzleloaders! I know NOTHING about these rifles, please inform and entertain me with your wisdom!
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In the firearms field, flintlock smoothbore muskets gave way to percussion-capped, rifled muskets.
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Decked in pitch-black garb, a flintlock pistol held tightly in each hand, Nathaniel watched as the dim curtain of midday crept over the autumn scarlet of the forest.
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His interest in the historical development of firearms motivated him to study, shoot and collect nearly every type of firearm from flintlocks to full-autos.
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I was interested in a flintlock smoothbore typical of the French and Indian War period.
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In Washington D.C., the cradle of freedom, you are allowed to own plugged muzzleloaders, fake flintlocks and dismantled cap-and-ball revolvers if the caps and balls are stashed in other jurisdictions.
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He met my gaze and took a couple of steps toward me, a hand moving toward the hilt of a flintlock.
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Imagine where we would be if gun makers believed the flintlock could not be improved.
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The rifle used by this actor-marksman is one of a pair of .54-caliber Lancaster County flintlocks, crafted in the early 1800's style by historian and master gun maker Mike Branson.
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As with the flintlock gun, the damage inflicted with a hit will be devastating.
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Aside from a few shotguns, most were flintlock rifles, kept more for hunting game than fighting.
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Clint is a true historian of personal arms, and has experienced and experimented with arms of all types, from flintlocks to belt-fed full auto.
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Thirteen individual steps were required to load and fire a historic reproduction flintlock musket.
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In one hand Liberty brandishes the tricolour and in the other she holds a flintlock, but otherwise she is in the classical costume of a goddess of victory, and her lemony chiton has slipped off both shoulders.
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Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a shadow walking towards Brad holding an old flintlock rifle.
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I'm sure that I have heard many gun rights supporters say that ‘every colonist had a flintlock over the mantle’ or words to that effect.
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Other items found were a scissors-shaped candle snuffer used to trim wick, parts of a flintlock pistol, flatware, a coat button, an ornamental andiron, and a drawknife that may be part of a set of cooper's tools listed in a 1732 inventory of the Madisons 'property.
Boyhood Home
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The Glock 9mm has about as much relationship to the flintlock pistol as a Ford Taurus does to a saddle horse.
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All Replies from mosinman123 wrote 7 weeks 3 days ago yo man im 19 and im with you when i use a muzleloader i like that old style feel. of a flintlock or caplock muzleloader. if it was goog enough for elmer fud then its good enough for me.
Old tradional muzzelloaders or the new inlines
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The flintlock and percussion are themselves evolutions of the wheellock and matchlock.
How many of you ladies and gents enjoy hunting with traditional blackpowder firearms?
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Modern-day pirates have traded in galleons and flintlocks for high-speed motor launches and semi-automatic rifles.
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Only that and the dull metallic sheen of the flintlock pistol clutched firmly in his hand.
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Muskets spanned the transition from matchlock, through wheel lock and flintlock, to percussion.
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By the late 17th century devices were being developed to fire grenades from the muzzles of flintlock muskets.
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It was an old flintlock pistol, with four barrels.
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‘When I saw the Mexican army up on the hill there and there I was in my full rig - with my flintlock rifle - it got kind of spooky,’ he added.
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In addition, most Rangers had one or more single-shot flintlock pistols of varied design and manufacture.
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What really happens once the episode concludes with its trite little ending is that the Klingons replace the flintlocks with Uzis, and the Federation ups the ante.
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From the other side of the duck pond, Pete draws his flintlock and fires at the boat.
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Like Minutemen equipped with flashlights instead of flintlocks, Smith's volunteers must be ready for action at short notice.
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Shiloh Sharps 45-70 with Montana Vintage Arms vernier tang sights and my Bingham Flintlock long rifle.
Investing in Rifles
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It tossed a foot-long wooden truncheon onto a table beside a flintlock pistol and flopped down into a chair, snarling all the while.
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Interestingly the term cocking a gun comes from flintlock muskets of 17th century, the hammer was very ornate and resembled a rooster (a cock).
Purplecigar Diary Entry
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To load and discharge a “firelock” flintlock musket required no less than twelve commands that set off eighteen distinct motions.
George Washington’s First War
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I've hunted game from rabbit to elk with flintlock rifles and smoothbores with great success and satisfaction.
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My very serious muzzle loader friend who shoots the flintlock is into the loading process immediately after the shot with the precise movements of a brain surgeon.
How many of you guys stick like religion to this ritual when hunting with a muzzleloader: First thing you do after you shoot you
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And in that society it was looked upon as the right to bear a flintlock rifle was a right that ought to be possessed.
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Side plates are decorative additions placed on the lateral margins of flintlock muskets opposite the lock plate.
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I used to muzzleload, had a TC Hawkin flintlock, as heavy as that barrel is it would take alot to burst it, dunno if "modern" muzzleloaders are as hefty or not, but I assume they are just for product liability reasons.
Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
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I always had the feeling the flintlock had a much slower lock time than the Colt cap and ball revolver.
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I love the way they arrange the swords and old flintlocks in criss-cross patterns up the wall.
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Loaded loosely, the lower barrel produces hang fires reminiscent of flintlock ignition.
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Then, to the surprise of the watchers, each man, keeping one leg wrapped about the saddletree, leaned far down on the right flank of his galloping horse, leaned under the neck and fired a salute from an old flintlock rifle.
Centennial
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MALI: US army begins anti-terrorist training Flintlock in nothern Mali
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The French Marine would show the students how to load and fire a flintlock, and how to make a fire with flint and steel.
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Guns November issue featured a review of two very fine smoothbore flintlocks by Caywood Gunmakers.
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The leader likewise finds a firearm, suddenly remembering the flintlock tucked into his sash.
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It was later differentiated from the ‘true’ flintlock by firearms scholars for whom the ‘true’ and original snaphaunce lock had a steel separate from the pan cover and a cock incapable of the half-cock safety position.
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The flintlock reigned supreme as a system throughout the 18th century and flintlock muskets, also referred to as ‘firelocks ', were the infantry's principal weapons in most European nations.
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The Special Warfare insignia consists of a golden eagle clutching a U.S. Navy anchor, trident, and flintlock style pistol.
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Recently he built a flintlock double rifle intended for dangerous game hunting in Africa.
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The jaeger was the creation of Central European gunsmiths: a flintlock with a heavy, octagonal, rifled barrel of .60 to .75 caliber; a set (double) trigger; and a walnut stock equipped with a distinctive "trap" in the side that was covered by a sliding plate.
Rifle That Made America
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I built a T/C Hawken flintlock from a kit years ago, and I am NOT a craftsman.
Finally my new gunkit for my senior project came in. its a st louis hawken muzzleloader kit.
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I yelled and he hurled himself to the side as the gun came up and I dodged frantically as the flintlock flared and filled the room with noise and smoke and something smashed splinters from the doorframe behind my head.