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Uploaded by on Jul 20, 2008

A flash in the pan followed by a big bang.

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  • If you read the comments at the bottom, it was all guess-work.

  • looked like too much pan powder...and flint might need sharpning

  • It was a first time with that pistol. The flint was very poor and the pan charge was just a guess. Since then have a new flint fitted and reduced the pan charge. It is a friends pistol who was kind enough to let me have a shoot. Tomorrow I am having a go on his 1851 colt pistol.

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  • drill that touchhole out bigger, flintlocks can be made to fire very fast!!

  • If there is such thing as reincarnation, I want to come back as a flintlock. That, or a car.

  • Is there a reason for the delay between the flash & the bang?

  • That would be a very bad start for a fresh graduate of some Prussian military school on his first cavalry charge. BP shooting is fun but I am so glad for the self contained cartridge.

  • @martindl99

    Ignition was a little slow, but nice recoil. What caliber is it? I shoot 0.316 RBs on about 15Gns FFFg, with about 3 Gns of FFFG in the pan. Ignition is always lightning fast. Ordinarily, I load the pan only about 1/2 full and tap the side of the pistol to feed it through the flash hole before closing the pan.

    Very nice

  • Very, very bad loading !!! You should not be able to distinguish between the first and second ignition...

  • Nice pistol i'm looking for shop with this true weapon, not only replica. Cheers ;).

  • yes you really need a fine napped flint for quick fire, make sure the frizzen's face is clean of any oil or it may not draw spark, and you can use a finer powder in the pan, FFFg or better FFFFg (really fine) the finer the powder the faster the burn. load with at least FFFg.

    Good shooting

  • ...GUN FAIL

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