crockett said:
I have been thinking about a Deer Creek Flint pistol but I was wondering how well the lock worked? Any comments?
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, I've been recovering from a bad fall. Doing reasonably well, just trying to keep the Grim Reaper away for a few more decades, if possible...
Anyway, don't expect the lock quality to be outstanding on a pistol kit that just costs as much as the entire lock does of some guns.
I will tell you it does NOT have a fly, and it has SPAIN in big letters on the backside of the lockplate. I don't know if that means the lockplates only came from there or that the particular model that I have was actually a Spanish made gun.
It's on the smallish side, but has worked fine for infrequent use. I don't know how it would hold up to rough treatment or really heavy usage...? I s'pose the thickness of the hardening on the frizzen is a factor that would affect it, but have no way to measure that . Mine seems to spark fairly good anyway.
That's about all I can tell you. There ought to be someone else on here who can tell you I would think... maybe not?
You could always replace a bad lock I guess... that could happen with ANY gun kit.
Regards,
WV_Hillbilly
PS I'm not into rocklocks as much as most other people are, so I am no great authority on these devices, but I do like them and as I get older (read that SLOWER!), I am starting to prefer them more...