You know, I got to thinking about it and I used to shoot (just for fun) my grandads old squirrel shooter smokepoles. These things where about 5 ft. long and he used flint and/or match heads to fire them off. Those used to scare the crap out of me, squeeze trigger, count to 5 and usually somewhere between 2 and 4 the gun would go off and you would waite for the smoke to clear to see where you hit. But every once and awhile nothing would happen and it was scary putting a new match head of piece of flint on there to try it again lol. Now because of this I really dont want a flintlock lol. Otherwise I would just ask my grandad for one of his old ml's to hunt with lol.