I was a bit leery about carrying a flintlock during Michigan's fickle, humid, early December weather. I did a little still hunting as well as from a blind. We had temperature swings from 19 degrees to 60 degrees. I loaded the rifle the day before the season opened and kept that load the entire nine days. I emptied the priming pan each time I came in and reprimed when I went out. While I was never hunting in a downpour, I was out in damp drizzle/light rain. I did my best to protect the lock with a "cows knee" but was fearful that I might have been carrying a dead stick.
As much as I would like to have had the shot on a deer it was not to be. The area I hunt has antler restrictions and I didn't see a legal buck. The evening of the last day I took the shot at a swinging 6" steel gong near camp. After 9 days in and out of the weather the charge went off with no hesitation and rang the gong at 50 yds. The Woodsrunner is a handful in the popup canvas blind. I am just able to move it around in there. The SMR would be too long.
I am anxiously waiting for next years season to get a chance to blood my Woodsrunner. It is a keeper for sure. I gained a lot of respect for flintlocks. They are not just quaint relics from the past but viable, accurate, and reliable hunting tools.
I just started on a 36cal. SMR. It is an addiction.