spyder1911
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Hello everyone, I have been lurking on this forum for a long time but most of it was spent in the rifles and shotgun sections. The story behind this is that I got it from a family member. The bore is all rusted and pitted from what I can see. I was hoping that it would at least make the familiar shower of sparks from a flintlock. Well the trigger is detached from the rest of the firing mechanism. So I disassembled the pistol and got the flintlock assembly out. Then I tried to fire it out of the rifle pressing up on the lever which disengages the sear allowing the "flint arm" to fall toward the pan. The "flint" (I have no clue if it really is flint or not) did not even hit the frizzen at first since the clamp holding it in would hit first. After I adjusted it so that the "flint" was hitting first there was still no sparks. Well I know next to nothing about flintlocks but I do know that the frizzen would need to be make of (high carbon) steel and it does not look like this to my naked untrained eye. So this leaves me with three questions. First, How can I make this weapon so that it will produce the familiar shower of sparks? Second, how can I reattach the trigger so that it can function normally? Finally, would it even be worth taking this to a gunsmith to have it professionally reconditioned?
p.s. The pictures don't like you if you have 56k
p.s. The pictures don't like you if you have 56k