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The flintlock ignition system reigned for two centuries, with virtually no alteration. The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was ...
Bill Harriman, firearms specialist on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow, told Making History that a flintlock is a mechanism ... It survived well into the 19th century and was often known as the French ...
Each year around the Fourth of July, in a vale in the Rocky Mountains, a scene from another century plays out ... best to trap beavers and load a flintlock rifle. Who are these guys?