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Alexander John Forsyth: The Minister Who Ended the Flintlock Era

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A Scottish minister who got tired of ducks dodging his shot charge is responsible for every round you've ever loaded into a modern firearm. That's not a stretch — it's the actual chain of events. His percussion ignition system — patented in 1807 — eliminated the flintlock's exposed priming pan, its vulnerability to rain, and the visible flash that gave game birds just enough warning to be somewhere else by the time the shot arrived. Lock time is something modern shooters mostly take for gra...

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Alexander John Forsyth: The Minister Who Ended the Flintlock Era

Alexander John Forsyth (28 December 1768 – 11 June 1843) was a Church of Scotland minister from Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire who, in his spare time between sermons and parish visits, dismantled two centuries of firearms technology and replaced it with so

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