Getting use to delay?

[vthompson]

I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my post. I got some good advise and some good idea'`s to try. The rifle that I am talking about is a Lyman 50cal. Plains rifle with a 1 in 66 twist.
Again, thanks a lot guy's.

[pathfinder]

Can flinter be dry balled? I see cap locks do it all the time,but NEVER a flinter!  :rotf  

[FlintSteel]

What Ive done and what I advise new shooters ofn flinters is to dry fire A LOT. Whilw watching TV or just sitting around,

Nothing wrong with doing this for practice, but I'd avise making a fake flint out of a piece of wood. No need to where out your flint or especially destroying your frizzen with dry fireing. No sparks no where and tear except maybe the springs. And no chance of an accicental discharge.

[FlintSteel]

I met a gent recently. He had been shooting cap lock for some time and wanted to know how you avoid or stop flinching, with all that fire in front of your nose. I told him I don't really know I've been doing it so long I don't even see the flash.

So I offered him a chance to shoot my flintlock. Of course he took me up on the offer. We went to the range yesterday, after one shot with my rifle he was hooked.

My rifle is very quick, my first flintlock rifle had the old pause, but this one has absolutely NONE. If there is one it is totally imperceptable, to the point that it is as fast as his cap lock rifle. His words not mine. I'm certain I made a convert to the flint side.

If anything can cause your followthrough to suffer it's the fact that after all that powder goes off, you can't see the target or for that matter the end of your rifle till the smoke clears. But I still never see the flash.