Are flintlocks reliable when it’s raining?
Simple question…..
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nchawkeye
58 Cal.
Yep, long as you keep it covered and dry before you pull the trigger...
So you must take extra precautions than with a percussion?
nchawkeye
58 Cal.
Don't know, been shooting flintlocks since 1977, never saw the need to use a percussion...Dry powder won't burn. so it's best to keep it dry...
In my experience, great care must be taken to get a flintlock to fire after hours out in the rain. 1) keep the lock area covered. 2) use 3F or 2F for priming. 3) consider not priming till you’re ready to shoot. 4) if you’re going to keep the pan primed, check it every hour.
Alternatively, prime it and drip candle wax all over the seams of the pan and pan cover.
I’m sure some have better luck than I do. Maybe they sit still or it doesn’t really pour down on them.
Alternatively, prime it and drip candle wax all over the seams of the pan and pan cover.
I’m sure some have better luck than I do. Maybe they sit still or it doesn’t really pour down on them.
I going to say no. My experience is 90% only during competition, even if it's not raining at the moment the dampness in the air can give negative results, I always carry a backup percussion for those times.
So you would rather someone do research going back hundreds of years than to ask a simple question on here from experienced flintlock shooters with today’s flintlocks.
Relax, you don’t have to be a miserable rude jerk every day of your life.
Thank you for the good reply
That’s what I was thinking. I often hunt in the rain with my percussions. Only one time did I have a misfire. But it was pouring down rain.
I’m looking into perhaps getting a SMR flintlock for hunting squirrels but as I have said, I sometimes hunt in the rain. This is a very humid climate here as well.
Thanks for the reply.
Thanks, Ron.
That shows it can be done for sure.
My concerns are more towards reliable ignition after being out in the rain for a while.
I would hate to be as rude and miserable as you are.
By the way, I didn’t post a YouTube link.
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oh, gosh, you only quoted a YouTube link,,? I apologize.
it is rude and miserable
it is rude and miserable
yeah, I got that part. So does everyone else.
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Still trying to dig yourself out of that hole rather than man up and admit you were rude and disrespectful again.
Have a good night, sir.
Not going in the fields or woods when it's miserable wet. That said, I will go in a marsh blind or boat for waterfowl. Would not take a flinter. Hiding under a poncho to reload a double is misery enough with percussion caps. Expecting reliability from a flinter in those circumstances is .....words fail me.
Rain? What rain?
Yah not exactly a monsoon, and not sitting in the rain for hours; but somewhat relevant or not
Not really @kyron4 ,, it's just that so many believe it is.
And you help share the concept.
I mean honest, if you can't or don't understand how to post a bias video that uses editing prior to the post/save to youtube.?
You can't grasp the sophomore concept of acquired viewing of paid youtube marketing that saturates "experience"??
I had striking a steel and getting flame in 2.2,, before www.
I have 1 youtube video. it show's how to R an R a T/C lock coil spring, in and out and back in 5.7
It has been posted here about 45 times.
But, after all that.
Others still share how to make a tool to remove that spring, how proud they are to have made that tool and how important it is to make and use a tool to remove that spring.
Doesn't matter doe's it? my vid wasn't "entertaining". it just showed a needle-nose pliers taking/doing the task in/out twice with full lock function in 5.7?
But you guy's all need your phone linked and notifications set. Just so when ya wake up to pee and look at it,, you can link another searched for share for benign response
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