The flintlock was used from 1640 or 50 until the cap lock was invented in 1840. Boone, Kenton, and Harrod, would have used a gun like the one I made for the history center.

Hobby muzzleloader rifle builders Bob and Gerry Rubbo of Summit Station display rifles they have for sale each year during the Gunmakers Fair at Kempton, which this year is Friday-Sunday, July 26 ...

To acknowledge their gallantry, for the first and only time, the U.S. Congress presented each of the 17 teens with a special firearm — a Hall Model 1819 breech loading flintlock rifle.

He kept the flintlock rifle, made in 1775 by gunsmith Johann Christian Oerter, in his barn for 47 years after he stole it from a display case at the Valley Forge State Park Museum, officials said.

Pennsylvania's flintlock deer hunting season started 50 years ago. Heritage is one reason new hunters take it up and others return year after year.