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Yup, that was the problem. BTW, after closer inspection I know what the two metal pieces are....... Nail heads, one for the trigger guard and the other for the trigger......

No I'm careful not to over tighten em because I know it can cause binding and other problems. I'll triple check and clean up the mortise around there just in case. I used a needlenose and was able to bend it back down a smidge, took some effort.

I put it back together, tested the lock and it would not fire. Not binding anywhere so I looked at the sear, seems it may have not been hardened, looks to be bending upwards a little bit. Don't know if you all can see the sear and tell that it's angled upwards in these pictures.

I did get the mortise picture, forgot to do the whole fusil. I have no idea what those two metal pieces are for. I wasn't kidding about the miniature adze..........

I'll probably get those tomorrow but the lock mortise is rough to say the least but nothing appears to be binding. Looks like whoever did that mortise went at it with a miniature adze. I'll end up cleaning that up..........

Military Heritage. I meant to order it from Loyalist Arms but at the time I had forgotten about them.

The Bess should be going out on Monday and my fusil arrived today. Fit and finish looks good, not great but good, no complaints here. Took the lock off and the innards look okay to me but I'm not an expert. Put a flint in it and it sparks just fine. Here's the back side of the lock: I...

Only saw a deer hanging once as a kid, (I'm not a hunter). My dad and uncle went hunting in the UP, Michigan, the deer was hanging with the hide on. Later he had cooked up some of the deer for us to try, I took one bite and nearly spit it out. He loved his venison really gamy.

It's already set in a couple of times and I'm still working on the shipping box for it. But I remind myself that I'm too old and fat to play soldier any longer and the Fusil de Chasse was the first flintlock I wanted aside from the old Kentucky Longrifle. Also the Bess was a wall hanger the...

Well I sold the Bess + accessories and waiting on the Fusil.

You've probably been up there more often then I have. My mom was from Gladstone, my dad from Wisconsin. He was AF and stationed in Greenland at the time.

I knew there was a reason I didn't like minced meat pies.........

Welcome from the high desert. I lived in NoVA for 35 years before moving back out west in 2012. Born in Escanaba but raised all over, military brat.

The only way I would eat clams or oysters was in the form of Clams Casino & Oysters Rockefeller. Did try a raw oyster once on a dare, like swallowing a massive wad of snot, I turned green at the gills and almost blew it all back up. Never again.

If you read the links you find that the Dickerson is called both a squash and a pumpkin from a scientific point of view. There are four species of squash, all related and pumpkin is just one of those relations.

Yes, Libby's uses the Dickenson Squash but even pumpkins are part of the squash family, they're a winter squash. I fell for that "pumpkin is not a squash" urban myth back when it first came out. pumpkins are a squash - Google Search

I grew up all over (military brat) and I don't remember ever having mac & cheese at Thanksgiving.

I'm glade you enjoyed it.

And you're feeling adventurous here's Townsend's holiday meal series.

Highway over passes.........