I used to be involved in muzzle-loading shooting primarily, and still have some of my favorite pieces, although I never seem to get around to shooting them of late.
My flintlock rifle (.... as distinct from the Brown Bess Short Land musket repro I also have ....) is a .50 cal. Dixie Gun Works Tennessee Mountain Rifle (long discontinued, unfortunately). Clean, "no nonsense" lines, simple browned iron furniture, excellent lock and accurate!
Two things I
didn't like about this model were its odd-looking (to my eye, anyway) original reddish orange finish (which I re-did) and the rather crude "grease hole" on the right side of the buttstock, although that was apparently a fairly common feature of such "poor boy" rifles. I installed a simple browned iron patch-box -