to everyone who offered advise on my problenm with lyman lock thanks I ended up bending the neck of the cock about a siixteenth of an in. the pan now closes and the flint clears at half cock using three quarter in. flints I also built a layer of JB weld around the flash pan and can no longer see daylight thru pan and frizzen the rifle now sparks and barks thanks again
weasel
weasel
