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CptCurl
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Flintlock problem
07/01/08 01:34 AM

Hello frontstuffers,

Indulge me as I visit here from the Double Rifle forum.

Let me bother you with a technical question concerning my rifle.

I have a very nice .54 flintlock made by Warren Fitzgerald of Covington, VA about 20 years ago. It's a very traditional rifle of the German-American school ca. 1840. I think the lock is an off-the-shelf Siler.

My problem is the fit between the frizzen and pan. The last time I hunted with it I carried the rifle a good distance without a shot. At the end of the day I opened the frizzen to blow away the priming charge and found that the priming charge was already gone. My experiments reveal that there is sufficient gap between the frizzen and pan to allow GEOX 4F to slowly leak out.

I would like to have confidence that in the unlikely event of sneaking up on a whitetail, the rifle will fire. Can you suggest a remedy? My best idea is to smear a bit of bullet lube between the contact surfaces.

Thanks in advance.

Curl

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Flintlock problem	CptCurl	07/01/08 01:34 AM
Re: Flintlock problem	Dphariss	07/01/08 01:50 PM
Re: Flintlock problem	szihn	11/01/08 02:22 PM
Re: Flintlock problem	CptCurl	11/01/08 11:05 PM
Re: Flintlock problem	szihn	12/01/08 03:47 AM
Re: Flintlock problem	CptCurl	18/01/08 11:42 PM
Re: Flintlock problem	szihn	19/01/08 09:33 AM
Re: Flintlock problem	DarylS	07/01/08 03:32 AM

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