To be clear, I'm not a 'purist'...don't have expensive custom guns that are supposed to be "period specific" and all that...but I do use TC Hawken Flintlocks, realBP, black English flints, and patched round balls...hunting has never in my life been as rewarding as it has beenfor the past four years...first Flintlock squirrel was about as big a deal as the first Flintlock buck!