Pedersoli problems

[Silvertip8k]

I think the word to all of us is whatever you have had on your list to acquire....get it now or forever hold your peace...its only going to get worse...
Is slacked on 4f...do have plenty of black powder for my flinters...started getting some blackhorn to go in my percussion to shoot in a hawken thats percussion using a musket cap for xtra heat...saving the bp for flinters...
Saving my basic stores now for hunting and an occasional shoot.

Thanks for your comments...im going to get the pedersoli...its been a dream for quite a while...i may be coming back for more help...hope not!

 

[Dave Marsh]

Well I purchased the Pedersoli flintlock Kentucky pistol in kit form probably 10 years ago. It is the only Pedersoli I have purchased and based on my experience there will not be another. It would fire about three times in a shooting session and then had to be cleaned. Not swabbed but cleaned. I had to fix a metal issue in the barrel. Another member on the forum had the same issue with the barrel and instructed me how to fix it. The lock was hard on flints and lots of fail to fire incidents so I sent it off to Brad Emig and had it tuned. It now shoots great but was very frustrating. I know nothing about Lyman's. Good luck.

Dave

 

[Silvertip8k]

The only real options have a lot more$$ involved...and I really want walnut...I had a really nice 45 kentuck I got in 1980...it was stolen...and since then one thing when I had the resources was to get a similar replacement...i would picknup a trafitions and just live with staining the wood...except they are probably a year out...
Im just so grateful i have what i have...who would want to try and get into this new...

 

[Springerpanhead]

Don’t know why I’m posting this, but sometimes when involved in various forums and I mention that I live near one gun manufacturer after another and have access to their products or facilities, I begin to sound like a BS artist. For those who do not know and mainly for those who might care. Connecticut which is a very small state was once the gun manufacturing capital of America. It was and in some cases still is, home to Colt, Winchester, Ruger, Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing, Standard Manufacturing, Stag Arms, Hi Standard, Dardick, Charter Arms, US Patent Firearms, Zip, Hopkins & Allen, Volcanic, CVA, Traditions, Lyman, even Smith & Wesson got its start in Norwich. All of these are or were within 1 hr. driving of where I live. Most were accommodating to the local public in some form or other, some officially, some “on the side”.

 

[jps2486]

I find that most products produced in foreign countries, with a few exceptions, are lower in quality in terms of dimensional tolerances, consistent metallurgy and attention to detail.

 

[Springerpanhead]

I agree 100%. I have also felt for a long time that except in the case of true virgin material used where the application calls for it, no one knows what the makeup of the steel they are using is. When you have a mixture of old car chassis, fenders, old washing machines, used bicycles, left over re-bar and recycled cans. How in the hell can you determine the alloy of that steel. Sure you can test it for hardness and tensile strength but there are other characteristics imparted by a steel‘s alloying that come into play, and I doubt very much that most manufacturers get that involved In determining what they might be. We have reached a point where the only safe thing to do is over engineer everything to compensate for possible shortcomings in the base material. However, material costs and possibly weight concerns will surely not go unnoticed by the upper level bean counters, so you can betchabutt it ain’t gonna happen.

 

[Griz44Mag]

Thanks for that info about the L&R RPL. Is that lock compatible with a double set trigger? With 2 Ped locks having now been on this rifle, neither of which do I believe were acceptable as far as trigger pull or manufacturing QC is concerned. I would rather spend my time converting the rifle to accept a better quality lock than upgrading an inferior one.

Yes, it will work with a double set. It is configured to be an exact replacement.

 

[Springerpanhead]

Yes, it will work with a double set. It is configured to be an exact replacement.

Silt thrilly with that info. Gonna get on it right away. Thanks.

 

[Springerpanhead]

Took the little Ped to the range with the new lock installed. Misfires were the rule. Getting ignition of the main charge about 1 in 3 maybe. Swabbed and dry patched between each shot using a jag modified to work as described by one of the other forum members. Finally no ignition at all. Removing the vent liner I found a piece of patch cut in a perfect little circle as though cut with a punch. The jag was obviously passing into an area smaller than the bore and sometimes cutting that perfect little circle. When firing it also seemed that with a 25 grain load the powder did not seem packed when I would pick the vent hole. Checking, using my Titanium ram rod which measures .315 considerably larger than the reduced diameter cleaning jag, It would not enter the breech plug which for all indications was drilled smaller than the bore. Having used the factory ramrod as a pattern for the new one. The excess I had sticking out should have told me something but Duh.. Pulling the breech plug revealed that it was bored to a diameter of .310. With the light load and the length of the breech plug the ball would have had to at least partially enter the breech to pack the powder, which it could not do. Pulled the breech plug and bored it to .324 which is what the bore mics. Reinstalled it and also increased the hole in the vent liner to .070 as suggested elsewhere in these forums, and while I was at it disassembled the lock and reduced the trigger pull to 4 1/2 pounds. Result. A 15 shot string without a single misfire.
It’s been a bit of a challenge but I have to say that with the dependability it now demonstrates I really like this little rifle.

 

[Fly103]

My pedersoli Pennsylvania (same lock as kentucky) was hard on flints, i fix that by shimming the back of the flint up with a toothpick so it points at the flash hole with the cock down and delivers more of a scraping impact to the frizzen. I normally get 50-80 shots per flint running it lie this.

Chris

 

[Springerpanhead]

My pedersoli Pennsylvania (same lock as kentucky) was hard on flints, i fix that by shimming the back of the flint up with a toothpick so it points at the flash hole with the cock down and delivers more of a scraping impact to the frizzen. I normally get 50-80 shots per flint running it lie this.

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Makes sense. I’m gonna try that. Thanks

 

[FlinterNick]

I would just file down the burr and surface harden the sear, call it a day.