Bob1961

all that really isn't that head spinning as one might think once you find what your rifle likes to spit out....ticking is cotton cloth that's bout.018 thick that you can get at any sewing center in any store that sells fabric and is the stuff that has red or blue strips like an old pillow, hence "pillow ticking"....if your shooting a flintlock stay away from subs powders and go with real black powder, save yourself some trouble when your just starting out....the fun part bout flintlocks is spending time with them to find what they like....in my .50 T/C hawken flintlockishoot only PRB over 70 grains of goex black powder....one pound of powder has 7000 grains so thats 100 shots, a box of round ball has 100 in it, when i buy prelubed patches they come 100 to a pack....

100 shots of powder 10.00
100 round ball 7.00
100 patches 4.50

so for bout 22.00 i can shot 100 times compaired to an inline of bout maybe 20 times for the same cost....makes for alot more time to find what makes a flintlock shoot the 10 ring......................bob

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