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Buffalo Man

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This is my first, but I hope not last flintlock. It is a Pedersoli Frontier .45. When I received it from the dealer and opened the package, I saw this scratch on the frizzen. Looks like it has been gouged with a piece of metal. Should I not worry about it or does it need to be smoothed over? 616F5B27-1E90-4B36-9245-D623B9D9B333.jpeg
 
Thank you. I just wasn’t sure. I’ve had percussions for years, but hadn’t tried the flintlock. I’ll take it out and let ‘er spark away!
 
Somebody snapped it with a flint that wasn't in straight, and it only caught the far left edge.
 
The "suspicious scratch" on the frizzen is just as Stophel noted. Someone put a flint in the jaws to see if the lock would spark. Any flint rifle frizzen will look just like that and even worse in time.
 
Pedersoli proof fires their rifles at the factory, flint wasnt straight when they did it. My pennsylvania rifle had a horizontal impact mark high up on the frizzen from the same proof test only in my case the flint clearly wasnt angled correctly in the jaws.

Chris
 
Just wait until your flint takes a chunk out of your barrel! That will really make your day!

On the frizzen I wouldnt care one bit. Sacrificial component anyway.
 
This is my first, but I hope not last flintlock. It is a Pedersoli Frontier .45. When I received it from the dealer and opened the package, I saw this scratch on the frizzen. Looks like it has been gouged with a piece of metal. Should I not worry about it or does it need to be smoothed over?View attachment 67823
That's normal...on a new gun, the frizzens will be tested to see that they are hard and will spark.
 
The deep scratches/grooves come from the flint striking the frizzen face head-on 90 degrees. Mounted correctly the flint will only leave vertical scratches on the frizzen.
 
This is my first, but I hope not last flintlock. It is a Pedersoli Frontier .45. When I received it from the dealer and opened the package, I saw this scratch on the frizzen. Looks like it has been gouged with a piece of metal. Should I not worry about it or does it need to be smoothed over?View attachment 67823
it doesn't seem to be in the striking area of the flint. shoot it.
 
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