Renegade Dan
50 Cal.
I just bought a book last month written by Eric Bye called Flintlocks-A practical guide for their use and appreciation. It's an outstanding book, there's Lots of interesting facts on flintlocks. I was always told that ignition was faster by banking the priming powder away from the touch hole. Experiments by larry Pletcher showed that ignition is faster when the priming powder is banked against the hole. the difference (I think it was thousandths of a second) was only minuscule so you wouldn't notice it, I just found it interesting. Anyone out their looking for a good flintlock book, this is it.