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If your lock is sparking well and throwing good spark in the pan and your barrel is well vented not to small wich an awful lot of flintlocks have very small venting many are made that way and can cause the problem even if a gun with small venting fires it will not belong before it stops flintlocks are dirty fouling is a problem which you must deal with when shooting them .Some times the rifle or musket the vent is to high or to low to high a common problem dirty lock poor condtion frizzen or flint clogged vent very dirty priming pan and vent all or any oneof the problem can cause what you say is happening