Mark,
Well, let's see, first off, I have been burning black powder for well in excess of 40 years, so this isn't just some new thing with me. For what that is worth.
I am not a convert to percussion from flint. I started out with cap guns and over the years I have honestly tried to convert over to flint. I have gone the route. Once I sold off all my percussion guns and bought a really nice flinter. That was a huge mistake which I will never forgive myself for. Then I have bought other flint rifles that I was just going to shoot occassionally. Yeah, right, they just sit in the closet, unused. My last forray into the world of flintlocks occured a couple of years ago when I bought one of Steve Zihn's full stock Hawkens. I went to two rendezvous, back to back. The first one had about 100 shooters and I fired my .62 English Sporting Rifle. Took 3rd place. A week later I went to another one which did not allow rifles over .58 caliber so I shot the Hawken. Out of a field of about 50 shooters, I took 23rd place. So, I sent the rifle back to Steve to have him convert it to percussion. Strangely enough, I cannot get excited enough about it to even take it out and try it. I ought to just sell the darn thing and be done with it.
So, I think I am just going to be done with trying to make flintlock guns get along with me and continue with my percussion guns. That's where I am happy and that's where I am going to stay.
I am not saying there is anything wrong with flinters, they're great. In someone else's hands. I just don't care for them, and they just don't seem to care for me.
John