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Old September 13, 2002, 02:57 PM   #7
Ed Dixon
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Join Date: September 5, 2000
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If there's enough of a delay that you're flinching, I'm guessing there's too much delay. I shoot my Lyman flintlock as well as anything else I have (we won't go into how "well" that is) and haven't had a problem. I wipe my flint edge between shots, as well as pick the flash hole. Too much pan powder can actually contribute to the problem too, which I learned after a couple hundred shots. While compared to modern arms I'm sure eons go by between flint strike and discharge, it's always seemed "just about" instantaneous to me. If you're using 3F in your pan instead of 4F, the drop to the finer powder might help. Good luck.
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