Flintlock and patched roundball performance

[EdP]

New flintlocks from custom builders usually shoot low so that you can file down the front sight to bring it up to shoot where you want. You may need to file down the rear sight a bit if you can but try it without shooting bags first.

 

[HighUintas]

That's impressive. I will have to record my eye next time I go shoot mine. I am 100% certain I will be disappointed

As a helpful tool for curing that issue, from someone who told me, competes, and instructs flintlock shooting, you can work up stepwise dry firing until the blink and flinch is gone. Start with a wooden flint and dry fire every day until there is no blink and no movement. Then use a flint. Same thing. No cheating and moving on until there's no blink or flinch whatsoever, anytime you do it. Then prime the pan and do the same thing. Then shoot light loads and do the same thing.

I haven't stuck with it but did make improvements when I was doing it. I was mostly through the wooden flint not blinking, but couldn't do it 100% of the time every time I picked it up. Don't know why, but it's not the case with a suppressed center-fire. I think for me it's mostly the lock sound and flash.

 

[EdP]

I shot 5 wood flint dry fire shots every morning for two decades and it helped my shooting more than live fire shooting did.