Merry Christmas all and a Happy Prosperous New Year. Well I bought the Traditions made in Spain pirate pistol for my son for Christmas. He was estatic for a production gun it is a pretty good gun. Metal to wood fit is good and it even has a sear adjustment screw. It has strong solid frizzen not like the old CVA. We just finished cleaning it. We shot it today. We had a ball. I started out with 30 grains of 3f goex powder a .015 patch lubed with wonder lube and one of my cast .490 balls. I never changed the load. The pistol loaded smooth and not too tight. we were shooting at 15 yards. His first shot was 6" high and 6" to the right. second shot 3"high 4" to the right. I shot it. I put 4 balls in a 1 3/4" group 5" high windage is right on. One big ragged hole. I really had to look for the forth hole. All in all we shot 15 rounds until it started getting dark. I never cleaned the bore between shots. We just kept loading and shooting. Accuracy was the same and ease of loading was the same too. I am so pleased with this pistol I may buy me one. I think you are right Zoie there are some good ones
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Boy howdy that sounds like fun.
That sounds like a truly memorable Christmas present. Great to hear a CVA flinter is working trouble free.
I used a German grey cut flint. I could not get my black English flints to spark as well. I prefer the real flint but I think it is too long. I will use it on another gun until it shortens then knap it and try it. The small German flint sparks well. The flint aligns a little high with the pan at full uncock, but the sparks rain into the pan. No ignition problems. However the frizzen does not flip completely away. I will polish that area on the spring and maybe take a little metal off. I won't do this until it or if it becomes and issue. Both the frizzen spring and the hammer springs are substantial. All in all I am pleased with what it did first time out. No misfires and one hang fire. I would think it will shoot better after we put some more rounds through it. I could not get much response on the internet or the forum about the gun so I was a little concerned. It was Christmas and I took the plunge. I would buy another based on this one.
