Post by: greyhunter on December 12, 2012, 12:54:07 PM
I know they won't try that again! The Bic holder obviously didn't know a flinter throws fire through any port it comes to. If I had known that they weren't just adjusting the flint I woulda stopped em, but anyways it was a fine lesson for all who saw it, and esp the one who felt it! BTW, a looooong match will work just fine if the holder stands to the rear a bit!
Post by: gunmaker on December 12, 2012, 08:09:12 PM
Post by: Uncle Russ on December 12, 2012, 08:24:12 PM
I've never seen it tried but I can certainly imagine what might happen.
Here's a short story...........
I had a guy shooting one of my old flinters one time from the Bench, this was his first time behind a flinter and everything was going fine, he had instant ignition and was continually complimenting me on such a fine rifle, how accurate, and yada, yada, yada...load & shoot, load & shoot, and so on when I noticed his left hand come around under the rest to set on top of his right hand which was his trigger finger.....
I yelled no, no, no, and reached over to move his left hand from outside the touch hole when he touched one off!
The blow-back from the touch hole took his fourth finger nail off, not really off, but it actually raised it up from its bed and blood was flying everwhere! I thought he was going to faint from the pain, and I just knew he was going to shoot me as soon as he colud get his breath, because I suspect, actually I've always suspected, that he thought I had something to do with that because I started to reach over him.
I must have bought him a hundred beers after that, trying to convince him that what he did he did himself by putting his finger too close to that touch hole.
But, like I said, I honestly think that to this day he still believes it was me, and he has never shot another flinter......as far as I know.
Some lessons come really hard!
Uncle Russ...
Post by: Bigsmoke on December 12, 2012, 09:24:23 PM
Convert it to Percussion.
Don't get much simpler than that.
That's what I'd do, anyway.
John
Post by: Fletcher on December 13, 2012, 12:11:17 AM
I'm sure it wern't the gun
Post by: Captchee on December 14, 2012, 10:47:43 AM
here is one for ya .
i actually broke my frizzen off one time on an old CVA flintlock .
i was way the hell back and gone on a pack in elk hunt and im sitting there like a penny waiting for change .
i lit a cigarette and set down to think threw the situation .
When I got back to camp I showed a friend who had went with me .
He starts laughing and says ,; you didn’t pass up any shots on the way back did you .
Now im thinking ; SMART !@## . And lit another smoke .
that’s when he says , well I guess you will do this hunt with a match lock won’t you .
Sure enough , a stubby cig , pushed into the jaws , will set the pan off just fine . Corse you don’t have a smoke after words . But it does work
Post by: Two Steps on December 14, 2012, 04:27:14 PM
Post by: Uncle Russ on December 14, 2012, 04:39:49 PM
Quote from: "Two Steps"
Darn Cap...good thing you weren't smoking a pipe at the time :Doh! :rotf
If I remember right, Cap does indeed smoke a pipe.
Uncle Russ...
Post by: Captchee on December 14, 2012, 11:46:12 PM