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Protecting your flintlock on longer Treks

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Rasch Chronicles:
Fellows,

I was wondering how you protect your rifles on longer treks, if at all?

Best Regards,
Albert A Rasch
The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles™
We Build a Pirogue!

mario:
Protect from what?

Mario

Rasch Chronicles:
Mario,

As my trekking usually involved body armor, a pretty much weather proof rifle, and an eighty pound ruck, I am a little out of tune with Period Trekking.

If I was exploring the Ohio valley, or pushing into frontier Tennessee, how would I have kept my flintlock rifle from harm? Did they have oilcloth rifle socks? Was there a methodology that was common in those days, like bear fat?

Thanks!
Best regards,
Albert “The Afghan” Rasch
Real Men Hunt

rickevans:
To be honest...you'd be totin' that riflegun in your hands. Maybe a cows knee over the lock if it was raining or snowing...some kind of oil for the lock.

mario:
Yup. What Rick said.

I use bear oil for the lock and barrel.

In the areas you describe you have a fair chance of stumbling on the local tribes who do not want you poaching on their land. So you'd need that firelock to be easy to bring into action, just in case.

Mario

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