Mastering a Flinter

[Sharp Shooter]

What should I do in bad weather with my flinter? I will be elk hunting the rocky mountains in September. What do you do to weatherproof it and make sure it will go off? I found a great link on it. I was thinking I could take sno-seal (beeswax based) and seal the pan with it. I am going to need some suggestions. I found good info on this site.
http://members.aye.net/~bspen/wetflints.html

[frontier gander]

I hunt in northern colorado and took my flintlock mule deer hunting, ran into some light rain on the way back to the truck. I simply dumped the priming pan and covered it over with my stocking cap. I think dumping the powder and finding something to cover the lock area is the best way. Im not sure about that snow seal stuff.

[cayugad]

On the two rifles I have the actual frizzen pan seals so tight that if I hold it up to the light, I can make out no light under the frizzen lid. Snow seal would only be messy in a case like that. If you want to smear snow seal, or candle wax along the edge, it should not hurt anything.

A friend of mine puts a simple baggie (for sandwiches) over the lock and frizzen and then tucks the how mess under his arm. When he is ready to shoot he pulls the baggie off and cuts loose.

If you want to stay traditional, as your signature suggests, I wouldperhaps look into a leather cow knee. Get it well oiled and it should keep the lock dry. Change your prime every sooften, and youshould be fine.

[lemoyne]

Tube of deck wax for crossbow its about the size and constructed like a tube of lip stick used very lightly it will seal a good fiting pan and frizzen and used lightly its not messy. Lee

[gleason.chapman]

ORIGINAL: cayugad

On the two rifles I have the actual frizzen pan seals so tight that if I hold it up to the light, I can make out no light under the frizzen lid. Snow seal would only be messy in a case like that. If you want to smear snow seal, or candle wax along the edge, it should not hurt anything.

A friend of mine puts a simple baggie (for sandwiches) over the lock and frizzen and then tucks the how mess under his arm. When he is ready to shoot he pulls the baggie off and cuts loose.

If you want to stay traditional, as your signature suggests, I wouldperhaps look into a leather cow knee. Get it well oiled and it should keep the lock dry. Change your prime every sooften, and youshould be fine.

I used the baggie before and it keeps coming off, so I am going to something like this:

http://rmcsports.com/catalog.htm

Chap Gleason Va

[mauser06]

i use a leather cows knee. i got a good seal but sno seal or wax or crisco or something could only help. but you still gotta worry about the flint and frizzen. one drop and your out of commission. i use a cows knee and some caution..try to keep it tucked under my arm out whatever else i can do. i also reprime pretty frequently gotta make sure you can reprime and not get it wet though..which can be tricky. i can honestly say in my 5 or so years of hunting with the flinter in rain and snow ive never had a misfire. days like that i go to the farm at the end of the day and fire the rifle just to see IF it would have went off. so far so good and for some reason we always get alot of rain during our flintlock season...wierd how that works out...