RattleSnake Jake
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All of my black powder shooting has been done with percussion rifles.
I bought a TC White Mountain Flint Lock about 12 years ago and put it over my cabin's fireplace as a decoration. We sold the cabin, so I thought that I'd bring it as a back up to my Hawkin rifle during an up coming elk hunt.
Long story short, I couldn't get it to fire while sighting it in at the range. It had the factory original flint, I was using Pyrodex P, a FFFg equivelent in the pan.
I had two problems that I'm aware of:
One, I wasn't getting much spark to ignite the powder in the pan.
Two, When the pan did ignit (only twice out of 25+ attempts), it wouldn't set off the main charge in the chamber.
The flash hole into the chamber charge was "picked" and as far as I could tell, unobstructed. No oil or cleaning fluids in the chamber either.
I'm stumped.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I bought a TC White Mountain Flint Lock about 12 years ago and put it over my cabin's fireplace as a decoration. We sold the cabin, so I thought that I'd bring it as a back up to my Hawkin rifle during an up coming elk hunt.
Long story short, I couldn't get it to fire while sighting it in at the range. It had the factory original flint, I was using Pyrodex P, a FFFg equivelent in the pan.
I had two problems that I'm aware of:
One, I wasn't getting much spark to ignite the powder in the pan.
Two, When the pan did ignit (only twice out of 25+ attempts), it wouldn't set off the main charge in the chamber.
The flash hole into the chamber charge was "picked" and as far as I could tell, unobstructed. No oil or cleaning fluids in the chamber either.
I'm stumped.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.