robinghewitt
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I always forget when it's ML clay competition time, five stands, five shots on each stand.
You get two tries on consecutive months, once with flint and once with caplock. I'm currently second in percussion and have yet to shoot the flint.
Rick always beats me. He cheats using a "fill the sky with lead" trick. Large bore and leaning well in to the collosal recoil, he falls over if it misfires :hmm:
I cheat on flint by using a flinter that shoots like a caplock. If it were 12 gauge I might win, sadly it's only a 16
The secret is in the base of the frizzen which compacts the priming in to a vee shape that carries the flash to the touch. (The vee doesn't go quite to the touch because you don't want rain water wicking in).
I was a bit perturbed when Mick turned up today with a John Manton he got from Peter Jaques estate, but his was only 19 gauge and 16 years older so he lacks the vee pan :blah:
Have a pic taken from an unusual angle, explains it better than I can...
You get two tries on consecutive months, once with flint and once with caplock. I'm currently second in percussion and have yet to shoot the flint.
Rick always beats me. He cheats using a "fill the sky with lead" trick. Large bore and leaning well in to the collosal recoil, he falls over if it misfires :hmm:
I cheat on flint by using a flinter that shoots like a caplock. If it were 12 gauge I might win, sadly it's only a 16
The secret is in the base of the frizzen which compacts the priming in to a vee shape that carries the flash to the touch. (The vee doesn't go quite to the touch because you don't want rain water wicking in).
I was a bit perturbed when Mick turned up today with a John Manton he got from Peter Jaques estate, but his was only 19 gauge and 16 years older so he lacks the vee pan :blah:
Have a pic taken from an unusual angle, explains it better than I can...