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Need 'em for reenactor muskets. Easy to put on it seems at first. Usually the (frizzen?) screw on the lock you use to attach most is long enough to do two jobs. But they often need two points of contact not to move -- some require a second little screw and a hole drilled and tapped in your lock, some come with a pre-cut tab you bend under the pan while part is above, and those without can be snipped with a wire cutter and the same bending done.
Brigade of the American Revolution has required flashguards forever it seems and with two points of contact for many years now.
Many of my flintlocks have them from mid 17th C. thru Rev. War. But not most. It would definitely be a courteous luxury for the range shooter to your right...
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