Kentucky45
36 Cal.
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Hi everyone. This is my first post. Great forum. I've had several cap lock rifles in the past, but I'm just getting back into BP after a 14 year dry spell due to a disabling injury. I had to sell all my BPs back then. In the past month I've bought three traditional rifles. I don't have much use for the modern types. It's good to see smoke again. I bought a TC Renegade 50 cal. cap.. Also a TC Hawken 54 cal. cap that I bought for someone who wanted one but then didn't want one, so I'll sell it to someone else, a rendezvous or reenactment rifle I guess. Because someone really put in some effort to make this rifle look old. Shoots great too. And last a Kentucky 45 cal. Flintlock. My very fist Flintlock. Not an expensive gun but I'm just as proud of it. After the time this rifle and I have spent together, we've become very close. It needed some love so I just finished about 60 hours on it. Not only were the two pieces of wood a different natural color, they are two completely different types of wood. So I had to make a dark walnut stock match a maple for-end. Never again, but I did it. I finished the rifle yesterday. Everything is working right and in good condition now except the trigger and hammer pull. It shoots fine but it's hard to keep from pulling right because of the stiff trigger. The hammer is stiff to pull back. The trigger is very heavy and I don't know how to correct it. I doubt it was used enough to loosen up. No ware. The rifle has no name and on the left side of the barrel "Japan F.R" with 3 broken circles with "S" inside them and then a serial number. On the right side "BLACK POWDER ONLY" Ultra-Hi. I'm pretty good on the cosmetics but I sure could use some suggestions on lightening the trigger pull. Thanks