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    Thumbs up How gun flints are made. - video

    That caps and primers are hard to find and expensive, the flintlock firearms are looking better and better as they're self-sustainable. One can make everything they need to shoot.


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    Neat!! I wish I had the skill to make it look that easy. I guess I'll have to keep buying mine at 2 bucks a pop.
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    He makes it look easy. I tried dressing a flint once and all I got was blood flowing out of my thumb. Them buggers is sharp!
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    Amazing how simple something can look, when there is a skilled professional doing it.

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    And………they are the best flints in the world!

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    I ain't sure about that. The French Amber flints have been the best I ever had. Having said that, I bought a bag of 50 of the black, British flints quite a few years ago and they've been excellent...and a lot less expensive than the French flints. For the life of me I don't remember from whom I bought them. Some place in West Virginia, I think. For all I know they might have been made buy this gentleman.
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    From what I understand, there is no true flint native to the U. S. I have heard you can find flint around ports where the old sailing ships use to put in. I understand it was used as ballast and then just dumped in the harbor when they took on their money cargo for the trip home.

    There are places you can buy the nodes from.
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    it is odd that he uses just metal tools to do it? all others use brass & deer antler.

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    copper & antler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GregLaROCHE View Post
    Amazing how simple something can look, when there is a skilled professional doing it.

    I've found out by trial & error that most things that look easy to do, aren't...……….
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasquatch-1 View Post
    From what I understand, there is no true flint native to the U. S. I have heard you can find flint around ports where the old sailing ships use to put in. I understand it was used as ballast and then just dumped in the harbor when they took on their money cargo for the trip home.

    There are places you can buy the nodes from.
    What is your source for true flints not being native to the US? I don't know much about flints, but that's the first I've read that. I have been want to try to go find some with my kid. He's a bit of a rock hound

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    Interesting video Thanks!
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    Back when I was a kid, The local Boy Scout troop was at the park , making Knives , arrowheads and spear points out of flints.
    It was fun to watch.
    And they let me try to Knapp some.
    It was fun , but not that easy.
    But then again , I was like 10 years old.
    They got the flint material from Arizona , which is where I live now.
    But , back then you could not find Flint in Southern California , even at most Rock Craft Stores.

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    So far when I have been out hunting in central to northern Az.
    The only thing I have found is Red Chert in areas where you find some kind of volcanic rock.

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    People tell me the chert will work for a fire starter.
    But it doesn't look like it will knap like Flint.
    Maybe I could Grind it to shape on my diamond saw blade.
    Good excuse to get out and find some again.

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    What was the material T/C used to make their cut flints from? GF

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    TC sold agate flints at one time .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasquatch-1 View Post
    From what I understand, there is no true flint native to the U. S. I have heard you can find flint around ports where the old sailing ships use to put in. I understand it was used as ballast and then just dumped in the harbor when they took on their money cargo for the trip home.

    There are places you can buy the nodes from.

    Grew up in the Panhandle of Texas. Flint is prolific in the area - found many flint arrowheads and flint knife blades in my youth. Flint from the area was traded between numerous Indian Tribes across the current US and Mexico for millennia - some say even down into South America. A part of the area has been turned into a National Park - Alibates National Monument (https://www.nps.gov/alfl/index.htm).

    In our youth - we learned to "Make Fire" with flint we found locally (Alibates Flint) so I know it sparks. I found the flooring link where some are discussing it's application in Flint Lock Rifles. http://muzzleloadermag.infopop.cc/ev...1/m/3274052928
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlippyRider View Post
    40 shots per flint? That means, at $2 per, a feller is paying 5 cents a spark!
    Googled them and the place I found was $4 per, minimum order 2, and the cheap shipping was $16.89. Gun broker primers are cheaper.
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    i'm trying french amber flints. i am still on my first one. i guess its been fired about 50 times.

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