There are problems with every production gun. I have 2 pedersoli's a mortimer that is absolutely a work of art and a jaeger hunter that leaves you wanting. That being said I bought a new 4.25" colt snake unmentionable a few months ago for 1500 dollars that has to go back to colt because the chatter in the barrel left by bad tooling makes it keyhole at 25 yards.
Sorry I must have hit a nerve here. If you think charging alot for shoddy performance is normal that's fine whenever it's a gun I expect nothing less than good performance right out of the box like My Charliville from Access Heritage. A thousand rounds and never one misfire
No nerve hit at all. I was merely stating that all production guns will have a few lemons. Unfortunately that seems to be becoming more common. I agree with you if I spend 1.5k+ on a firearm I expect it to work ( that's why my colt python is going back) I wouldn't take an inferior product from any manufacturer.
I we find this an interesting discussion, So I would like to add to it. I have a Lyman flintlock from about 2005, (deer hunter, .50), and I don't know who made those, but it cost about $225. It was subject to a few hang fires and I had to do some tinkering to get it to work right, which I must admit I enjoyed doing, but the thing that opened my eyes was a friend I shoot with has a flintlock and it doesn't have a frizzen spring. Anyway, I took mine off and discovered that it would also work sufficiently without a spring but of course you couldn't do this in any kind of wind, so I discovered that a rubber band holding it down was plenty sufficient to get sparks. That made me thin my spring down to where it's about like a big rubber band. Then I raised the touch hole by shimming the back of the barrel just enough to put the touch hole above a straight line. Darn Old cheap gun shoots pretty good with hardly a misfire, even tried it out with Shockley's gold synthetic powder and it would shoot that too but it would Noticeably hang fire.
