Originally Posted by
MountainDevil54
French amber flints dont fall apart and chip like the black english flints do for me. Ive installed them in lyman guns and they'd shatter a chunk out of them. Not my favorites. Plus, a lot that I ordered did not have a flat top, but a nice pointy top to try and vice down on in the jaws.
Yes I get a few of the humpback black english flints. But with a channel lock and a dremel tool with a muzzy wheel, I can shape them to fit so sweet in the jaws of my rifles, and then they never move.
I agree Bronco, that humpback is the fault of the knapper. Its funny that MD felt the back english chipped off in chunks sometimes, because that is the one thing I remember the french flint doing. It was like the second strike on the frizzen and the entire side just broke. I remember it because I cursed the flint ... something about cheap what ever for the price.