Geten ready to shoot

[buckknife]

Ok fellers when i get my 45 flinter i have a good idea on how to make it work by readen all the good info on this hear board and good ways to clean a pinned longrifle.
With my 54 gpr i remove the storage oil with rubbing alkey and dry patch and snap a couple of caps.
With a flinter do i clean and then shoot off a load in the pan or just do a regular fouling shot or both?
Last thing i want is starting off the first day shooten with my new flinter and having a flash in the pan because the powder is a little wet down in the breech plug.
Also can i get by without too much of a delay by using goex 3f in the pan and barrel both?I know 4f would probably be best in the pan but is there a big noticable difference?

 

[musketman]

You can use FFg in the pan and it will still set the gun off, lots of us prime with the same powder we charge our firearms with...

I like FFFg because FFFFg atracts moisture faster...

The delay betweens the different powders is hardly noticable without proper measuring devices, unless you are using cannon grade powder in the pan on one shot and FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFg for the next... :winking:

Consististy is the key to proper ignition, keeping your variables to a minimum...

 

Buckknife,.... Unlike yore GPR, yore flinter might not have a "patten breech"! You'll know for sure, if you run the ramrod and jag (without patch) down the bore and take "note" of how much of yore rod sticks out of the muzzle, then pull the rod and lay it a'top yore barrel. If the end of the jag sit's behind the "vent", then you ain't got'a "patten breech". ::

If yore rifle ain't got a "patten breech", you can run a dry-patch all the way to the breech-face to dry'er out when clean'n!

I cain't tell any difference 'tween 3F Goex and 4F Goex fer prime'n,.... but, I use large locks, and large vent-holes, and knaped English flints!
If you got 3F powder, and no 4F,.... you can grind up some 3F in a wooden spoon to see if yore ignition is faster with the "finer" powder!

You'll jest have to find out what yore lock likes, thet also includes flint "bevel" up, or, down!!

 

[buckknife]

Rolling its gonna be a pedersoli penn rifle.Do they have pat breech plug?
Maybe i could run some compressed air through vent to dry it out good after removing the storage oil?
Right now all i have is goex 2f in real black powder,im gonna get some 3f when i get the flinter,right now i have about 3/4 of the money squrreled away for the rifle fund so it might be as much as a month yet before i order one.
Shot the jukar 45 cap pistol yesterday after doing some of the lock work you and Maxi told me about and got it to shoot decent groups with the 2f goex at 25 yards.A lighter trigger sure made a world of difference. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

Buck,.... I'm 99.9% sure (even tho I ain't never seen one in person), thet the Pedersoli Penn. flinter probably ain't got a "patten breech".

Maybe someone thet's got one, will give us an answer!