Well I for one ain't sure he was being sarcastic but if he was you bit and replied in a way that was kinda uncool. I would think if he posted "Oh wow 6000 shots I'm cool" or something like that you would be right but I just didn't read that in his post. If I feel someone is dissing me I just ignore them.

Anyway back to the subject and yes you have way more experience than me with flinters for sure, is it normal for some of them to chip big time the first fall or two and then settle in to be great flints? I am still setting up bevel down like most people tell me to do and after they chip I flip them over dry shoot a few times then go back to bevel down and load up.

It seemed to work last weekend but if I am going to hunt with one of these rifles I need to know it's good to go without worrying about breaking in the flint, or need to know that I need to do that.

Does that make any sense?