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Eric Krewson:
If you back the screw out too (or is it too far in?) far the trigger won't set, you can fire it off the front trigger as well unset just a higher poundage pull.

Pappy:
Ya I shot it off the front trigger Eric, it is pretty stiff but I think we got the set trigger working, very light pull then and I am not very good with a rifle and need all the help I can get. I can say my first shot with this one was just out of a 3 inch circle at about 40 yards , so not bad at all for me and that wasn't resting the gun on a bench. I think with a little work I can get pretty good with it. I do need to measure and find some more flint, Matt said he would tell me where to get it , he ordered a few things I need but didn't get the flint so I need to look into that.I talked to Jesse about making me some but he said that was a whole other skill. I told him he needed to learn it . :) :) :) :) :)
 Pappy

Mike Yancey:
You have the correct rifle for the part of the world that you live in Mark. You will find many hours of fun shooting that little rifle, no kick and cheap to shoot. Next thing you know you will be shooting one of these ground pounders that I shoot. The more of those rifles that you see and hold the more that you will see the simple beauty in them the same as a selfbow. These is so much more that goes into a selfbow and a flintlock that people don't realize until the dig in a little deeper.
That's the style of rifle that I killed my mountain lion with.

 Have fun!

Eric Krewson:
Broken arrowheads work great for flints, I tried one. Your knappers could easily make all you need. I can't make an arrow head but had no problem making a few gun flints out of some spalled off flakes, they don't have to be perfect like the pros make. Some chirt or flint sparks well some doesn't.

I have a file driven into piece of log to work gunflints on, I made a gun flint hammer out of a file as well like seen in the video. My problem is getting any good stuff to work so I end up buying gun flints.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzi9ksSn-ZQ&t=40s

Here is how they did it on a commercial level years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XPEoiY3NnI

Stoker:
Great story. Nice gesture from your friends. You will love that rifle as they are a lot of fun
Thanks Leroy

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