How far should touch hole be from bottom on the pan ?

[DuncNZ]

I've read a good flint gun will fire over 50 percent of the time without any priming powder in the pan. I've also read they will reliably fire upside down with a properly primed pan as well. Curiosity dictates that I've got to test these theories one of these days to find out for myself.

I think you are reading the wrong books , I would consider a flintlock which can fire with no prime in the pan every second shot to have a problem with flash hole which is too big and it is dribbling charge powder into the pan and slowly loosing its charge , this may be useful in a Military situation but not target shooting or hunting . A good shower of sparks may possibly set of an unprimed charge but I've never heard of, or seen this happening .All my flintlocks fire upside down .

 

[Grenadier1758]

@M. De Land, a flint lock will fire about 10% of the time when there is no powder in the pan if the lock is throwing a large quantity of sparks into the pan. It has happened to me following a failure to fire. I wiped the pan and lightly dressed the edge if the flint using the frizzen to flake off a dull lump along the edge. With the (smoothbored) gun pointing down range, I wanted to see if the lock would throw a reasonable amount of sparks. It did.

I seem to recall that @B P Maniac Shooter has a video demonstrating that his flintlock rifle will fire upside down. Accuracy on target is not improved.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

I seem to recall that @B P Maniac Shooter has a video demonstrating that his flintlock rifle will fire upside down. Accuracy on target is not improved.

Yep..I put 3 different flint guns to the test:

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Putting a Traditions kit together and the bottom of the hole is about level with the bottom of the pan . Is this okay ? All new to me . -Thanks

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What is the size of the touch hole liner?

 

[kyron4]

What is the size of the touch hole liner?

The hole is .0665" and the threads are M5x.8 . Not sure which you were asking about.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

The hole is .0665" and the threads are M5x.8 . Not sure which you were asking about.

The touch hole, my apologies. Thanks for the info.

 

[D.Summers]

Looks great!!