Why is it?

[pripley]

Why is it that I have problems right at "Cease Fire Time"?
The "one minute warning sounds", and I get a flash with no bang. I didn't have a pick handy as I had not been having any problems.
No problem, I re-prime and this time I get nothing - "Cease Fire". I then notice that half of the flint is gone. :cursing:
I explain to the Range Officer that I need to work on my flint.
So the fellow announces to the whole Range, "put your hearing protection back on, we have to get a m-u-z-z-l-e-l-o-a-d-e-r to fire". :redface:
I slap in a new flint in quick-time and I get a flash with no bang. :redface: OK - Pick the vent, I have to leave the bench and get a pick out of my range bag.
Just as I am doing this, one of the Range Officers takes down the side screen and begins to stand just to my right as if getting ready to help me, :shocked2: so I have to tell him to stand back.
When I picked the vent I felt a crunch - a flint shard must have gotten lodged in the vent on the first misfire.
I finally get a bang with well over 50 people watching. The shot was on target after all of that!
You can't have enough possibles in your Possibles Bag.
(.50 cal GPR with L&R lock, vent opened to .070", Swiss 4Fg Prime, Goex 2Fg Charge)

 

[necchi]

Why is it that I have problems right at "Cease Fire Time"?

:haha:
That's a Murphy!

 

[Rifleman1776]

You should be embarrassed. :redface: You are the only person in the world that has ever happened to. :wink: :rotf:

 

[vern faulkner]

I'd be worried if stuff like that didn't happen to me. :redface: :redface:

Vern

 

[cowpoke1955]

Talk about bad luck :shake: I pick my vent on every shot. We learn from our mistakes. Good luck in the future :thumbsup:

 

[ricklandes]

Sounds to me like real world practice for hunting season! :rotf:

 

[Dphar]

For some perverse reason flintlocks are more failure prone when there are non-flintlock shooters watching OR when your rifle is being fired by someone new to MLing. I have noticed this numerous times over the years.

If the flint being broken in big chunks happens often then you may have a frizzen rebound problem. This can be checked by making leather pad long enough to cover most of the top of the flint. This will give a witness to frizzen rebound and also protect the flint.
Just a thought.

Dan