Cool Ultra-Slow-Motion Video of Flintlock Firing
#1
Boone & Crockett
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
Posts: 10,918
![Default](https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/images/icons/icon1.gif)
#4
Boone & Crockett
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
Posts: 10,918
![Default](https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/images/icons/icon1.gif)
I don't think it's a hang fire. If you compare the relative time in slow motionfor the hammer to completely fall, to the time the spark took to achieve a pretty full bloom (about 1 : 3 ratio) you can figure that if the hammer fell in 1/10 of a second in real time, you had good fire in 3/10 of a second.
What do you rock swingers think?
What do you rock swingers think?
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
![Default](https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/images/icons/icon1.gif)
I give talks to the local schools and take my 2 flinters...I explain what a flint and steel are and then show them how a flinter throws sparks....Now this is with the lock held in my hands, off the rifle...While talking, I proceed to put a little powder in the pan, close the frizzen, bring her to full cock, by this time the kids are backing away from me...
I trip the sear and poof, she lights off, instantaneously....By this time, I have their full attention....That's when you can teach them something about history...
I trip the sear and poof, she lights off, instantaneously....By this time, I have their full attention....That's when you can teach them something about history...