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Dec 7th, 2014 at 7:09am
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Does anybody have a drawing of how to make a leather cover for the hammer on a right hand muzzle loading rifle for a left hand shooter for eye protection? Thanks for your answer Hank45
  
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Re: muzzleloader hammer
Reply #1 - Dec 7th, 2014 at 10:53am
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Hank   you might try looking on the American Long rifle assoc website     I have found them to be really helpful, although they are somewhat flintlock oriented they do deal with Percussion arms as well.  A number of ASSRA website members also participate on the ALR site on occasion.

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A second thought:  check the Track of the wolf sight for "Flash Cups"  I spent years in the Rev and F&I War reenactment scene.  we were REQUIRED to have flash guards to protect fellow shooters when firing in close-order ranked groups as "line" troops.  I believe that the Civil War re-enactors do as well.  
  for flintlocks we used a brass deflector that mounted to the frizzen screw. 
I believe the percussion flash guards attach via the percussion cap nipple.  We have a number of site members who are active in the N/S Skirmish groups that probably have first had knowledge much more accurate than none when it comes to the percussion arms.   In any case its a pretty simple fix.

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Re: muzzleloader hammer
Reply #2 - Dec 9th, 2014 at 8:54pm
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FWIW I'm a lefty and have ?6? (Not sure!) or more RH flintlocks and 1 RH 'cap gun'. I have yet - thankfully - never noticed anything towards my shootiñg glasses from the flintersm but I do note I feel 'spray' (backpressure exiting the nipple?) from the percussion arms MORE than I do the flintlocks. 

But I am an eyeglass wearer daily, so I always have eye protection on. On a good year, I'll burn through 6-7 pounds of powdah, so I do a fair amount of BP shooting. And again, I personally have yet to have experienced any adverse effects of shooting a RH'd arm LH'd.

That said, I believe a flash guard will make the situation worse, if any exists for something to get or more towards the shooter, as it is re-directing and semi-containing the flash from the touch hole, instead of allowing it to 'exhaust' perpendicular to the barrel axis.
  

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Reply #3 - Dec 10th, 2014 at 6:59pm
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the angle of the Percussion nipple will direct any jetting back towards you.  Normally------- the mainspring will keep the hammer down on the spent cap, and the cupped nose of the hammer should keep it contained-------but with heavy loads and  worn parts or deliberately lightened springs in competition flint/perc arms can blow the hammer off the nipple and let some blow-by escape.   Glasses are always a good idea unless you are in a reenactment group the allows or mandates them.


With flinters the gas just jets straight out the touch hole and depending on the lock design (and quality) it should not be a danger on a flinter in good shape.   However the touch holes do erode and a lot of re-enactors made them a little oversize for better ignition with coarser paper cartridge powder as the prime in authentic shooting situations  (the original flint military muskets also had what we would consider "oversized" touch-holes.   they are much more a danger to the guy shooting on your right if you are doing "line drill" unit firing.    thats why the "flash guards" were made mandatory in most flintlock F&I, Rev War, and 1812 military reenactment groups.

  

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