“I like to have a flintlock I know is 100% reliable to fire, and fire fast every time I pull the trigger.”
This was posted on a different thread but it is interesting.
The answer is yes they are but with qualifiers and addendum if you please.
There is only one thing in the cosmos that is 100% and it isn’t man. Anything made by the hand of man can and will fail. Well how can you say flintlocks are 100% reliable?
If I take my favorite Thompson Center flintlock out right now, I would wager a large sum that it will fire 10 times out of ten. That is 100%.
If you change the scenario to 100 times, I would not wager as much but I also wouldn’t be surprised if it did fire 100 out of 100.
I have shot this gun over a thousand times now and I can’t remember very many misfires, maybe ten. (Since my initial start up woes.)
I have to agree with PaulV on this one, when you walk out and shoot it, it will go boom and if not 100% surely 99.9%.
What say you?
This was posted on a different thread but it is interesting.
The answer is yes they are but with qualifiers and addendum if you please.
There is only one thing in the cosmos that is 100% and it isn’t man. Anything made by the hand of man can and will fail. Well how can you say flintlocks are 100% reliable?
If I take my favorite Thompson Center flintlock out right now, I would wager a large sum that it will fire 10 times out of ten. That is 100%.
If you change the scenario to 100 times, I would not wager as much but I also wouldn’t be surprised if it did fire 100 out of 100.
I have shot this gun over a thousand times now and I can’t remember very many misfires, maybe ten. (Since my initial start up woes.)
I have to agree with PaulV on this one, when you walk out and shoot it, it will go boom and if not 100% surely 99.9%.
What say you?