flint size
 

Does anyone in here have a Pedersoli Blue Ridge rifle or Frontier rifle in flintlock and can tell me the size flints.
I downloaded the manual hoping it would be in there but it isn't. I want to be sure I have some on hand when my rifle gets here.

3/4" - Remember it's not the size of the flint but how you use it
 

Percussion caps bang better.

But also illegal in PA's primitive season!
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I looked on Cabela's Q&A and one question was ... what size flints does the Cabela's Blue Ridge rifle take. Most answered 3/4 in. One went into something about the french amber flints.

Thank you gentlemen.

My Hatfield by Pedersoli - basically the same gun - wants 3/4" width by 7/8" length. But 3/4" x 3/4" fits pretty well also.

Thanks - I just ordered a dozen Tom Fuller 3/4x3/4 black english flints from TOW.

french amber is better :P

Maybe next time. I heard a lot of good things about fuller flints so I figured I'd try them.
Only thing left to get now is a RB mould. I have .490 and .495 balls at home. I'll see what it likes before I go ordering a mould.

I disagree.

Bronko, my frontier .36 uses 3/4" rocks.

Everyone told me the same thing MD so when I ordered flints a long time ago, I ordered me some of the French Amber flints. They had an impressive long spark to them, but I really don't think they lasted any longer then a Black English Flint. Are finding a longer life in them?

Also being double the price of a Thomas Fuller Black English Flint, and never really having trouble with the spark from a Tom Fuller, I kind of figured you're getting twice the flint for the same price.

But again the five of them I purchased did throw a nice long spark, and seemed to work perfect in my Lyman Trade Rifle.

I'm on board with that Semi...

BPS

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.

Seems to me that would be the fault of the knapper and not the flint. We shall see when I get my order in

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.

Dave...

Was that some kind of magic wheel you used on your Dremel? I used to take flints in to work and shape them on a special wheel that was made for sharpening tungsten carbide tooling and even that was no walk in the park, flint is some pretty darn hard stuff!

BPS

Muzzy ... I swear I am getting as bad as my father for memory. Mizzy Wheels not Muzzy Wheels. Sorry .... :confused0024:

http://www.armstrongtoolsupply.com/a...zy-wheels.html

This is not the site where I purchased mine. And actually mine are much thicker then these shown. But it gives you an idea. A lot of Mizzy Wheels are used in jewelry making too.


This is more like what I got. They fit my Dremel Tool and they will take the hump off a flint in seconds. And they don't seem to heat up. I actually take the hump down so that the jaw of the lock will fit the channel I cut off. Then the flint don't slide around.

Well now that is a good thing to know. Boy I guess it's true - you learn something new every day.
Trouble is, these days I may learn it today and forget it tomorrow. And probably a lot of the new things I am learning I may have known 20 years ago!