I can only relate my very limited experience in my first hunt with a flintlock last weekend.

I loaded it Friday night and put a round toothpick in the touch hole. Saturday morning on the stand I pulled the toothpick and primed the pan. Mid-day I returned to camp, dumped the prime and reinserted the toothpick. That afternoon I pullet the pick again a primed the pan. At dark I dumped the prime and put the pick back in. Sunday morning I pulled the pick and primed the pan. After the Sunday morning hunt I walked out to the club's rifle range at 11 o'clockand put a .54 caliber hole in the center of the bull at 50 yards from the bench. Instant ignition with the same prime I put in at 6 o'clock that morning, and the same load that had been in the gun since Friday night.