I´m not sold on the flintlock. I think a scout living by his rifle by the 1860s would be using a percussion weapon. We still have Hickok´s half-stocked plains rifle that he was carrying at that time. I would rather see something like that than a fully stocked late 18th century/early 19th century long rifle. I´m also not sold on those long leggings. They´re a hundred years out of date. Blanket or leather leggings I could justify, but the British ones are just too out of the time period. Scouts were often given obsolete or unusual uniform items to distinguish them: Hardee hats - sometimes with artillery brass, shell jackets. On the whole, his look has too much ¨I had these items and threw them together, then went looking for an impression that might justify them.¨ When you create an impression, you don´t want to borrow stuff too blatantly from you other impressions. You don´t want someone saying ¨So, you do French and Indian, too?¨ I´m not expressing it very well, but his impression seems more like cowboy cosplay than actual historical recreation.
Bringing the