Flintlock speed

[ken]

Jerry another way that I look at pick and prime is that just before you fire you want the touch hole to be clear from the pan thur the touch hole to the power charge so the flash can set off the power charge without having to burn its way to the power charge,

[the Black Spot]

i have had only two flinters. one you had to put just a little prime in the corner farthest from the touch hole. the one i have now, it has to have prime all across the pan just below the touchhole. my 2 pennies.

[Minnesota Mike]

For my new (and first) long gun flinter - found that putting prime charge away from touch hole sparks the ignition vice fuzing the ignition if prime charge was laid against the touch hole.

Biggest shock to me has been the amount of fouling left in barrel after shooting a couple of shots. But understand that shooting it with shot is always more fouling that with patched round ball.

r/
MM

[SquirrelHeart]

For those of you not familiar with Larry Pletcher's work with priming powder placement in the pan, you should find this very interesting.

http://www.blackpowdermag.com/featured-articles/pan-vent-experiments.php

If you look on the right side of the page you will find all kinds of interesting links on lock ignition, high speed videos, etc.

http://www.blackpowdermag.com/featured-articles/ultra-high-speed-flintlock-movie.php

http://www.blackpowdermag.com/featured-articles/index.php

[Hawken]

There are three very important  things shooting a flintlock will teach one:

Trigger control

Follow through

Maintenance of sight picture and hold!

If these three things aren't adhered to....you may as well buy you a dart board!! :USA