"I think the shows are all about marketing and making money, andmost folks don't like to mess with FL or SideLock because they feel they are too complicated and unreliable."

I'm sure there are people who think this. I've certainly had my failures with flint and cap lock rifles. ButIN EVERY INSTANCE when this happened, I was able to trace what happened to something I had done wrong or had failed to do! Never was the fault of the design of the mechanism!