Rifleman1776 said:
Are you saying L&R locks are junk?
Me thinks they were implying that the CVA lock
could be junk. To me, at best they can be hit or miss.
Two examples ... my twin brother bought a cheap < ~$300 flint rifle and had sooooooooo much intermittent results w/ the lock, that he almost gave up on BP shooting! It would be fine for a few shots - or days - then wouldn’t spark or fire at all. He finally got some other guy to buy it (who wanted a ”˜project’ gun) and he put the $$ into a better rocklock - finally!
On the other hand, not 2 months ago a guy at work says he knows that I like BP toys that go bang and wanted to know if I wanted a ”˜used’ MZL’dr, from a friend of his, for $50?
Used? It looked like new! Not only that ... it came complete with not one, but two charges down the barrel. The bottom-most charge was 2 Pyrodex pellets; no small wonder the rocklock would not go off! He must’ve told his buddy, and his buddy said, hey let me try it. They put ~80-grns of loose BP on TOP of the 1st charge and added a patched ball ... DOH!
Not only did I get a ~$300 retail CVA Hawken for $50 ... but the next day he came in and gave me a box full of 2 boxes of 50-cal roundballs, box of mineballs, Pyrodex pellets, patches, a flint pan charger, short starter, and all the jags & tools one could ever use, plus a couple tubes of bore buttle lube -
for free!
And that CVA lock ... sparks like a house afire! Now I didn’t like the wood color, so I am refinishing it, then will give it to a youth for them to get into flintlock shooting and it looks like it will be reliable, or least a good intro.
