Position of flash hole

[DanChamberlain]

My $650 Pedersoli Trade Musket Kit has a flash hole perfectly centered at the base of the flash pan. With a properly positioned flint, hot metal gets scraped into the pan and it goes boom.

A friend of mine has a lot of custom flinters and I admire them greatly. I love the look of the handwork that goes into them. I envy his ownership of them and respect his decision to go with custom over factory produced weapons.

In truth, for some, custom is just not an option. For me, well I have money I don't know what to do with, but normally once I decide what to do with it, it ends up being used for something that will benefit the family or one of my kids. So, I peruse the pages of various custom sites and drool a little, and then I go out and shoot my off the rack guns.

My comment about your use of "You get what you pay for" was not lost on you. You understand that its far easier telling a woman her butt is fat and her face is ugly on an internet forum, rather than across the fire from a total stranger. A man has an issue, and 90% of the members here would like to help him. But only a couple want to rub his nose in it.

Regards

Dan

 

[MikeChapin]

I am a believer in that you get what you pay for. The prices most builders charge for their work usually works out to a lousy hourly rate even if they are charging $2500 for a rifle.

Early on I knew that I could not afford to have someone else do it for me so I taught myself to build rifles. Luckily I like the plainer trade and plains type rifles so I haven't had the opportunity to screw up any fancy carving.

Word got around that I built rifles so I had a lot of people asking me to build for them. At that time I just didn't have the time to build rifles for other people but I did a lot Christmas kits and clean up of botched projects. Some you can't do anything with short of restocking. Some you can get in decent condition if they didn't goof up too bad.

I saw a lot of junk come through, this was in the eighties when there was a lot of junk on the market. I also saw some cheaper custom stuff come through that looked like it had been worked with a chain saw.

The trouble with mass produced guns is that, while most of them are fine, you always run the chance of getting a Friday gun that slips through quality control.

 

[Claude Mathis]

You are correct this has run it's coarse and needs to end.

As you wish.