Why You Should Own A Flintlock 

I would think from a survivalist pov, a flintlock is a must have. You aren't reliant on manufactured ammo, you can make your own black powder if you have the potassium nitrate, carbon, sulfur etc ingredients. if you know what to look for you can make your own flint, with a couple of tools and raw lead you can make your own bullets.

A lot of people tend to forget that having fun is always a good reason to do something, happy to see you mention that sometimes just having something cool is enough of a reason sometimes

Flintlock was Top of It's Game for literally 4 HUNDREDS YEARS!

Glad I have my flintlock too

We live for flintlock season here in PA. Our family really looks forward to Dec. 26th every year. We actually do better in flintlock because city folks stay home. It's actually pretty easy. Find what they are eating and set up down wind. They have to eat to stay warm.

The one thing about flintlocks, is that are great for "tinkering:! Yeah sure, there are "which percussion cap is the one of the week", but nothing beats a nice piece of chert, flint or the latest piece of rock! Caps CAN and HAVE fallen off, leaving you looking at your game's butt!! You can tell a flintlocker by his bare right hand compared to the hair on his other hand ...a badge of pride! Whether a Pennsylvania-school, a Hawken, a Jaeger, a Baker, a Brown Bess/Charleville,, or an English Fowler, there is "a load" yet untried, a "ball/patch combo" to noodle, a "different lock", always a little something! Maybe a "new bag"? a new powder charging tool? And it always brings a smile, a joy, an AH_HAH! And YOU figured it out! (my old load from the '80's fired out oh my DGW kit Pennsylvania rifle was 60 grains FFFg, 1/2 pan of FFFFg, a squared chisel English flint !/2 inch under leather, a .440 ball and .010 ticking patch with 'bear grease'.)

Absolute independence. With a little work you can even make your own potassium nitrate, charcoal is easy and some places you can even mine your own Sulphur. So long as there are rocks and you can find pee or chicken crap...

You can make your own black powder. You can make your own bullets. In most states no background checks, No registration, and you can mail order them.

I have several BP pistols and rifles all percussion though i just bought my first flinter the exact gun you have there .50 cal. T/C Hawkens i make my own powder so black powder is basically the cheapest way to shoot it only cost me $6.00 a pound so can shoot forever love black powder guns

Amen.

Well spoken 👌👍

Solid sub from me, one gun channel to another! Excellent points!

Nothing fun about powder flashing inches from your face.