New Flintlock

[BigSkyRambler]

Just received this as new .54 flintlock today. 35" barrel, Maple stock and some nice German Silver bling. Rifle was built by an L. Poole and A.W. Lenhart. What I have found out is that they were very active in 60s and 70s in the John Day, Oregon area. Anyone familiar with these two?

Really gorgeous rifle but has a jinky lock: triggers won't set. hammer not engaging sear. I have adjusted set screw to no avail and even out of stock cock won't engage. Being kind of out of my wheelhouse, any ideas on fix?

 

[deerstalkert]

bet its missing the fly. or the fly is stuck.
other than that, the sear may be sheared, or the sear spring may be broken/stuck/ collapsed.
take a pic of the inside of the lock and post it for the DR's to look at.
sweet rifle

 

[BigSkyRambler]

Nothing missing or broken. Looks really goopy around the works. grease could be 40 or more years old and sitting that long. Needs a good cleaning with screws loosened.

 

[BigSkyRambler]

Seems the interior screws have to be backed off a tad from tight to let everything move. Works fine now. I always assume the worst, as you can tell.

 

[rusticbob]

Are you selling it? If so, I might be interested.
Beautiful rifle!

 

[deerstalkert]

Seems the interior screws have to be backed off a tad from tight to let everything move. Works fine now. I always assume the worst, as you can tell.

a good polishing of internal parts will help that syndrome! i have one that drove me well..... nuttier by freezing up when the bridle screws were tightened. polished to crocus shine and now i could use my new impact wrench to tighten and everything would still move.
and i shoot BP guns for the simplicity!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Looks good.

 

[BigSkyRambler]

Looks good.

Now, I need to see how it shoots!

 

[david w]

Seems the interior screws have to be backed off a tad from tight to let everything move. Works fine now. I always assume the worst, as you can tell.

It may be an inletting problem. Get some inletting black and see if there is wood to metal contact that can cause interference.

 

[hanshi]

It may be an inletting problem. Get some inletting black and see if there is wood to metal contact that can cause interference.

I have a rifle that did the same thing until I removed the lock and carefully shaved out a tiny bit of wood from the inlet. Perfect after that.