I suspect that it depends on when it was made, and where. I've seen some that were pretty fair rifles. On the other hand, I came into possession of one last year that was anything but. A fellow was wanting to raise some quick cash, and so he offered me a new A&H flint mountain rifle, new in the box, that he had won on a drawing, for a fraction of the going price. Because of the amount he was asking, I didn't even bother examining the rifle very closely, I just gave him what he asked, and brought it home. This particular rifle was made in Spain. Nice lines, and fairly nice wood, but, much of the inletting looked like a first time builder's attempt. The front sight consisted of a blade with a round shaft driven into a square hole in the odd size base. Result was that you could easily pull the front sight out of the base, and even with it in place, it rocked back and forth with a little bit of pressure. The dovetail in the barrel was so shallow that the sight blade showed an eighth inch of space between the sight and barrel flat. The browning on the barrel was very thin, and uneven. It was impossible to run a patch down the barrel all the way to the breech, reason being that the touch hole liner was sticking into the bore. The touch hole also cut into the face of the breech plug. A significant gap existed between the barrel and the priming pan, reason being that one of the screws on the inside of the lock was cross threaded and all bunged up so that the lock couldn't be drawn tight against the barrel. It was also necessary to file the pan surface true to get a tight fit. The double set triggers are not. Trigger pull with the unset front trigger was atrocious, and the adjusting screw would not adjust the rear trigger to anything but a super unsafe hair trigger. I've corrected all the problems except that I still am not satisfied with the trigger. This gun is a loaner, or, up for trade....anybody interested?
