The two flinters I have are originals and I don't shoot them except on special occassions. I have an English 1761 New Land Pattern 'horse pistol', smoothbore 58/9 caliber with a Wilots tower stamped lock that was given to my great,great,great grandfather as a present at the end of the Revolutionary War. He was a quartermaster for Gen. Greene. The youngest male over seven gets to fire it on the 4th of July after reading the Declaration of Independence to the assembled family and guests. My other is a 1809 Prussian musket in 69 cal with the arsenal of the city of Philadelphia stamp on the breech. It belonged to my great grandfather. We used to shoot it as a fowling piece on the farm but I haven't fired it in years. My grandpa used to call it his 'punkin thrower'.