DementedMindOfJac
40 Cal
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For $600 I'd buy that Blue Ridge in a heartbeat. Pedersorries are great guns until you need parts from them and you get Elisa on the line.
I have a L&R Ketland on my What-Started-As-A-Pedersoli. I lose track of the number of strikes to the flint, but 50 does sound about right, maybe more. I had a white French flint in her once that I named "Methuselah."I haven't had much experience with T/C or Pedersoli flintlocks but the CVAs I've shot were rock eaters.
My Issac Haines rifle with a Siler lock has 75 shots and still sparking. My English Pitol with an L&R has 50 and still going.
Good Luck!
Walt
I agree with Brokenock. A flintlock is a complicated little machine and it's easy to get the geometry and physics wrong. In the old days one paid with one's life for poor quality and function, so they aimed to get it right the first time. People sometimes are amazed that the good locks work as well as they do. I always replied that if your life depends on the thing working, well it tends to focus the mind a bit more.Yup.
Now some poorly designed or built locks can be tuned and made good, some can't.
Seems the general consensus of your responders here would suggest the Pedersoli or TC locks are your safest bet.
It would seem that if you want to humt with it this year, you have a bit of a time crunch. No time to be messing with a sketchy lock.
Before this tall of difficulty with poor flintlocks turns you off from them let me say this. A lousy flintlock, (just talking about the lock here) either by design or assembly, will make one hate flintlocks and believe the old nonsense about how unreliable they are,,,,,, a good lock is a thing of beauty and precision. Personally, I can't speak for everyone or their experiences, I have found my flintlocks to be almost more reliable than my caplocks,,, when I do my part. And, when they do fail to fire, the flintlocks have been much easier to square away and get the shot off.
Just buy them all .Take out a loan and buy them all…
You can Thank me later.
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