I built a T/C Hawken flintlock from a kit years ago, and I am NOT a craftsman. From Wordnik.com. [finally my new gunkit for my senior project came in. its a st louis hawken muzzleloader kit.] Reference
And what was Justice Scalia THINKING when he called a flintlock a concealed weapon?. From Wordnik.com. [Bazookas, flintlocks & concealibility: The handgun's role in the coming hard times] Reference
They are called flintlock rifles and flintlock pistols. From Wordnik.com. [INAUGURATION OF THE IGNACIO AGRAMONTE WEAPONS] Reference
The move could therefore affect collectors and exhibitors of historic weapons such as flintlock pistols. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
A flintlock was a precarious thing. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Lizzie cocked the flintlock of her rifle silently. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
A flintlock kentucky rifle in .50 is the only way to go. From Wordnik.com. [Do you prefer in-lines or traditional? I own 2 in-lines, a traditional caplock and a flintlock longrifle.] Reference
How could Mae West have concealed a flintlock for instance?. From Wordnik.com. [Bazookas, flintlocks & concealibility: The handgun's role in the coming hard times] Reference
He cocked the flintlock and aimed at a tree across the lawn. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
Unfortunately, it still carried the old flintlock mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
Tastes like something Davy Crockett used to clean his flintlock. From Wordnik.com. [Brannon's Choice]
I own 2 in-lines, a traditional caplock and a flintlock longrifle. From Wordnik.com. [Do you prefer in-lines or traditional? I own 2 in-lines, a traditional caplock and a flintlock longrifle.] Reference
It also returned this -- The loading process of a flintlock musket. From Wordnik.com. [purplecigar Diary Entry] Reference
The powder-horn and the flintlock rifle are the only volunteer articles. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896] Reference
Here the deserter comes to sell his uniform and his ricketty old flintlock. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
I should have been alarmed when he got a flintlock out, but I was intrigued. From Wordnik.com. [How to talk right Chap12] Reference
Harper cocked the flintlock that was soldered onto the carronade's touchhole. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
What you saw on his wall is mostly old fowling pieces, flintlock stuff and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Speaker Of Mandarin]
There was an original British flintlock rifled carbine and an actual Scheutzen rifle. From Wordnik.com. [Do You Feel Lucky, Watermelon?] Reference
Clouter did not pull the carronade's flintlock lanyard when Chase ordered him to fire. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
The hammer striking the pan causes a spark, ignites the powder, and fires the flintlock. From Wordnik.com. [A Private Little War] Reference
I seemed to recall that flintlock pistols sometimes lacked a bit in the way of accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
After the flintlock, Ann took her on to more esoteric types like wheel-locks and even matchlocks. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
His fingernails were still ragged and black, though that, he said, was the result of firing a flintlock musket. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
A muzzle-loading flintlock rifle, it was made by Griffin of Bond Street and had a Spanish barrel with silver inlay. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
They carried rapiers and flintlock pistols, whose function the more worldly Simna had to explain to the astonished Ehomba. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
(The name comes from a weapon the 23rd no longer used -- the fusil, a lightweight musket with a flintlock firing mechanism.). From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Red] Reference
At Leavenworth full equipment was secured, including flintlock muskets, with a few caplock guns for sharpshooting and hunting. From Wordnik.com. [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference
They were armed defensively with a shield, and offensively with a curved sword, and a flintlock musket slung at the saddle-bow. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
Instead the guns had flintlocks, though, if the flintlock failed, a linstock was suspended in a nearby tub half-filled with water. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
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