#flintlocks

[iamthemaestro]

everyone look at this fuckass pistol I found on gunbroker. it's like if a star wars blaster was a flintlock. I hate it but I also kind of love it

[tallmadgeandtea]

My beautiful girls Elizabeth and Mary

(with a close up of the engravings cause they’re just so pretty)

[ltwilliammowett]

A pair of naval officer's flintlock pocket pistols by Nock, London, early 19th century

[curlypie]

A painting experiment I did a year or so ago to try out different ways to render one of my drawing. Yup, no watercolor.

[crownedstoat]

Flintlocks

[victusinveritas]

I tend to think sport hunting is barbaric, but give these guys a pass because that 18th C. drip is strong, plus flintlocks are fun.

Photos from Field and Stream:

" Pennsylvania’s flintlock-only deer season, begun in 1973, is the last of its kind in America.

While most of today’s hunters tote modern in-line muzzleloaders, each January, Keystone State traditionalists forgo the smokepole’s biggest technological advances of the past 200 years—from the percussion cap to the FireStick—and step into the woods with gear befitting a primitive season: flint, steel, powder, patch, and ball. In this way, they keep the past alive.

Read the full story - https://www.fieldandstream.com/hunting/photo-gallery-pennsylvania-flintlock-only-deer-season

"

[the-gun-licker]

Idk there's just somethign about a flintlock that is so irrevocably *sexy* like wdym you took 30 seconds to load a weapon with one shot and that one shot is for me and if you miss I get a chance to kill you, how is that NOT sexy

[karagin22]