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11-18-2009, 05:19 PM
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Mr. 16 gauge,
Nice photos. The second picture shows a rough frizzen. I polish mine with crocus cloth so they look like a mirror. Yesterday, I shot my .54 Hawken flinter 26 times and never had a stutter. After I cleaned and oiled the rifle, I polished the frizzen and touched up the flint with the whetstone. I think I finally got it right. I only have 6 flinters and they are my favorite arms for target work and primitive deer hunting. I use my .45 flinter with ball and 50 grains of 2F Goex for squirrel. I have yet to see a squirrel this Fall, so I did not respond to your other thread. Be well, my friend. Adam
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11-18-2009, 05:59 PM
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11-18-2009, 11:22 PM
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Mr 16 if you look back a few threads under tc 54..I posted a problem I was having and included in my problem/fix was the missfire issue. That was one problem I never encountered with the TC in all the years I owned it other than one lend out to a trusted cousin that I warned..do not clean with anything other than the #9 I gave him to use when cleaning it....he didn't listen so I found out when I went to fire it and no spark..he said snuck in gun oil..and some must of gotten on the wrong parts..but if you read under that TC54 post about the mixing of cleaning solvents and the oily/gunk that ended up on the flint after only one or 2 shots that could be a place to look..I now am back to dry patches lubed with #9 only and pan is dry as popcorn stinker after every fire....I also keep my flint at least 1/16 inch from the frizen and an old cva I played with in the past would not spark and found it was a weak spring...not dropping the hammer fast enough to make hot spark..and it was a new gun...can look there also.
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