caionneach
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I've been able to do this before, but I have lost my touch. What is the technique many or most are using to be able to fire your flintlock after loading it for a 2d or follow up shot?
My performance at the range last week re-taught me a couple of things: first, don't ram a dry patch down the barrel to clean the fouling; 2d, don't use too much cleaning solution or you won't be able to fire the rifle.
I know you must break down and essentially clean the thing with some bore solvent and then dry the barrel with patches. At least that's what I've read, and that has worked ok for me at the range. Somehow I don't think that's what the old timers did in years of yore. A followup shot on the Lewis and Clark expedition with those flintlocks from the Springfield Armoury, maybe a few were made by the Hawken brothers too, was a necessary skill.
So I can make a dry flintlock fire just fine, maybe even a 2d and third shot. But when the barrel must be swabbed a little to remove fouling what is done to clean the fouling yet not make the barrel so wet that you can't fire it?
Newb question I know, but I need to go back to school on this one. :surrender:
My performance at the range last week re-taught me a couple of things: first, don't ram a dry patch down the barrel to clean the fouling; 2d, don't use too much cleaning solution or you won't be able to fire the rifle.
I know you must break down and essentially clean the thing with some bore solvent and then dry the barrel with patches. At least that's what I've read, and that has worked ok for me at the range. Somehow I don't think that's what the old timers did in years of yore. A followup shot on the Lewis and Clark expedition with those flintlocks from the Springfield Armoury, maybe a few were made by the Hawken brothers too, was a necessary skill.
So I can make a dry flintlock fire just fine, maybe even a 2d and third shot. But when the barrel must be swabbed a little to remove fouling what is done to clean the fouling yet not make the barrel so wet that you can't fire it?
Newb question I know, but I need to go back to school on this one. :surrender: