Loading a Flintlock with Bird Shot 

Glad someone thought of this a year ago. Now I know what a flintlock does to a birdshot

To the person asking about "smooth bore". That is a flintlock without rifling. Like a shotgun, as this flintlock is a fowler. It can shoot birds hot, buck shot, even round ball. Or variations of that theme.

I like your creative opening where the neatly arranged letters of the title are slowly randomized by

It gives you that feeling of yesteryear takes you back in time. I have a club butt fowler 62cal.

Was that a scrape under the tree

Hows it pattern?