ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
I have a Lyman GPR Flinlock and was wondering if there are pros and cons to the load in the flash pan??? I have never actually experimented with the pan load yet. Any help would be great!
I currently use the Xtra large pan Charger and put 2 or 3 charges of Goes ffff in the pan. Is this too much??
Thanks!
Use about half a panfull, up tothe
bottom edge of, BUT NOT COVERING, the touch hole. You want the flash from the pan powder to go up and into the touch-hole as quickly as possible, to give you the fastest flash-boom time you can get. Properly installed and loaded, a flintlock can have a lock time of 1/1000 of a second, or less!
The worst possible situation is when the powder actually covers the touch-hole and has to burn through before the main charge ignites. This is called a "fuse effect", and is to be avoided........ Just don't use that much powder.