Who Sees "The Flash"?

[majg1234]

flash?????? what flash????????? :grin:

 

[sc45-70]

If you want to see it, shoot in the dark sometime.
There is more flash from the pan than from the muzzle!
SC45-70

 

[Larry Pletcher]

SC 45-70,
Tell me more about the up-side-down flintlock pistol in your avatar.
Regards,
Pletch

 

[ebiggs1]

I suspect no one “sees” the flash. As a real flash that is. I suppose there might be that super individual with Ted Williams eyes that can but not the rest of us. Great photography and I never tire of watching it. Thanks again, for doing such work. My thoughts behind my conclusion is the eye is focused on the rear and front sight relatively.. This most likely puts the lock pan distance out of focus. Remember I am and old school still photographer! A person may notice something took place there but nothing more than something to flinch at.
You photography is at 1/15,000th second here it is at 1 second. This is what everybody is “missing!

Ernie

 

[Larry Pletcher]

Ernie,
Great shot. That same method without priming powder can be used to see the quanity of sparks and where they land. A good evacuation tool. (I just did that for friend. We discovered that his sparks were landing well in front of the pan.)

This kind of photography can be a fine tool to learn.
regards,
Pletch

 

[shortbow]

I see it, but I'm still new to flintlocks and as well I shoot with both eyes open, something I've been training myself to do over the last few years with cartridge guns. I quite enjoy it actually, feels a lot more "old timey" to me than the caplocks I've shot since the 'seventies.

 

[Ken Cormier]

Saw it in the brging but not so much any more

 

[smoothy]

I remember seeing the flash during a hunt towards the end of the day. I concentrate more when shooting at deer and I think that is why I saw it. Actually, I remember seeing a spec arching out of the pan and thinking that my priming powder may have gotten some moisture which caused this. And yes, I got the deer.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Same as most others, I don't see it or notice it at all.

 

[sc45-70]

It's an underhammer flintlock pistol I designed and built. Send me a PT and I will answer any questions you have.
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showpost.php?post/991825/

SC45-70

 

[Firelock937]

Never been bothered by the flash in the pan, even though I shoot lefty with mostly right hand guns. That's why I never bothered spending the extra money for lefty guns.

 

[bucktales]

I don't see the flash, but I do feel the heat from it.

 

[BrownBear]

I'm a lefty and I see it every time I fire a righthanded gun, never when I shoot a lefty. I can certainly shoot righties, but it's been a long, slow learning curve. Righties who tell me I should just shoot righties are rather startled when I hand them one of my lefties to shoot. Subject closed in their minds. They just don't want to go through the long, slow learning curve themselves.

 

[hanshi]

I've seen the slo-mo videos but never have seen the pan flash in all my years of shooting. I do see it when OTHERS are shooting, however.

 

[tiger955]

Get yourself a big ole' musket lock, pack as much 4f as you can in the pan, lots of flash! :rotf:

 

[ericb]

Roger on the musket Lock. My Charleville Pan probably holds enough to power a Squirrel Rifle!

E

 

[hanshi]

I have a smoothbore with a Chambers Colonial Va lock with a very large pan and it takes musket flints. It takes about two to three times the prime of a Large Siler. Are we talking about an even LARGER lock?!

 

[ericb]

I believe we are; musket locks are huge. Been meaning to measure just exactly how much pan holds - will do that soon and post results. I know I can go a whole range session without refilling my small priming Horn with the Harper's Ferry Rifle, but an average 40-50 shot session with Charleville easily takes at least 2 or 3 refills. It seems to work best with a full pan - so I put the priming powder to 'er....

 

[Joel/Calgary]

Righties who tell me I should just shoot righties are rather startled when I hand them one of my lefties to shoot. Subject closed in their minds. They just don't want to go through the long, slow learning curve themselves.

Man, they're gonna have a problem if their fantasies about a flint double ever come true. I may well have noticed the near-side lock more than the far-side one when I first got mine, but I honestly cannot recall doing so, and I certainly don't notice a difference now.

Regards,
Joel

 

[hoochiepapa]

Great videos!!