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I was in exactly the same situation as the OP until last year. It was taking me about 3 hours to get off 10 shots, with LOTS of powder lost through flash-in-the-pan. Finally, a friend with more flint experience than I showed me what I was doing wrong, and it was the same thing Brokennock stated in his post #14 above: Plug the vent while loading. With that one small change, everything fell into place, and my flinter became as fast and reliable as my percussion, until I needed to trim the flint.
 
Lots of good advice given. Pay special attention to the priming suggestions. However, I do not agree with plugging the touch hole. Jillions of flint shots over the past 50 years, I never plugged the hole while loading. Nothing to be gained.
I'll only add: keep shooting and enjoy. Come back to the forum if you want assistance.
Bob does it and it works great for him, Jack doesn’t do it and has zero trouble. I don’t do it, and I prime from my horn.... works great for all those that do the same. Don’t work as well for some shooters that plug holes and uses 4f to prime. MLS are forgiving.
To make an pie top you cut three holes, one to let out the steam, two because mama did it that way.
 
If it has an agate on it, take it out, toss in garbage can, and install a black English flint.
 
Work your load & flint position, priming etc., then front sight, front sight, FRONT SIGHT .... then follow through ...

I'm a lefty and shoot right-handed flinders and I have NEVER seen a pan flash ... as all my attention is on that front sight when the trigger breaks.
 
I had a T/C flintlock 30 odd years ago as a teen, no one I knew shot flint locks so I filled the pan to the brim w/ ffffg. The hang fire was awful, i couldn't hit anything. So i sold it and stuck with percussion systems.

Now i have this LH flint 40 cal, and have read plenty of info about getting it to go bang. But again, no one I know shoots a rock lock.

If you could give ONE piece of advice for success with a flintlock... what would it be??

Let the Games begin...
Eterry,
Thanks for this question. I too am new to flint shooting. The answers you got are great!
 

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