Hey Cordite, I think I recognize the fellow in the picture, from a different forum perhaps. Maybe not. Flinters are indeed fun to shoot.

I followed the same path as you, with the moderns and cap-locks. I really had to bear down on the flinters and learn control.

My 'best' trail walk, rendezvous guns are now flintlocks.

That .75 will work well on bears! Good luck.