Flintlock_bob
40 Cal.
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A friend of mine recently built one of the Pedersoli Kentucky in .32 cal. It is a very nice looking gun. His lock does fail to ignite the pan fairly often though.
Maybe if the misfire rate was 1 in 50-100 shots (or less). Much more than that, something is probably wrong - too small a touch-hole, soft frizzen, bad flint positioning, dull flint, loose flint, bad spring, cut agate flints (rather than knapped flints). First thing I'd do was check if the flint was loose/dull and then drill out the touch hole to ~1/16".CapPopper said:Im willing to accept a certain misfire rate....
Why?CapPopper said:Then there is .357 hollow base wadcutters.....
CapPopper said:Im willing to accept a certain misfire rate.... After all it happens with caplocks as well if proper care isn't taken in loading and if I can find any issue odds are I can fix it... Short of making springs theres not much I can't do... And I could probably make springs if I really tried. I know that's been my main concern with flint and the reason I asked here cause I don't want one that only bangs sometimes... I understand misfired will happen but they should be the exception not the norm
Please don't be offended - I had a difficult time following the logic of your post. Could you clarify? Perhaps punctuation would help....CapPopper said:More cause why not lol... Besides not that I will and not that its legal here a cast lead especially a hard cast swc paper patched would kill about anything reasonable at 1200 fps kills deer dead put of a pistol I just like options lol and I get bored
CapPopper said:im pretty sure buckshot is still an option with a 32
CapPopper said:More so cause why not? lol... Besides not that I will, and not that its legal here, but a cast lead bullet, especially a hard cast swc, paper patched, would kill about anything reasonable at 1200 fps. kills deer dead out of a pistol. I just like options lol and I get bored
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