[kwhi43@kc.rr.com]

Here's why I don't have any eyebrows!!
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o127/prizzel/Flash.gif

[scrat]

lol i do believe a flash pan may help a little. http://www.middlesexvillagetrading.com/installaflashguard.shtml

[Curator]

Too much priming powder in your pan! Experiment with lots less priming--you'll be surprised how little is needed if you position it properly. Most flinchlock shooters over-prime. With a clean pan, try this: slightly moisten the end of your little finger with saliva. Wipe the inside surface of the pan with your damp finger, keeping away from the flash-hole. Prime as usual, then dump the pan allowing only the powder that clings to remain. Close the frizzen and shoot. If your lock is half-way decent you will get very fast ignition with very little flash in your face. 'Hope your eyebrows grow back!

[Mike OTDP]

I use a different method - put 2-3 grains of powder in the pan, spread into a thin layer - but the point is 100% right. You don't need to overprime.

[Macmac]

I think he's kidding..

The guard is so just maybe you don't burn the guy to your right in a volly fire, standing shoulder to shoulder.

I agree that the prime should be well below the vent.

[kwhi43@kc.rr.com]

I really use 7 F for priming. This way I can cock the lock and fire and just the
top surface will flash. Then I reload and just cock and fire without re-priming.
Sometimes I can get three flashes on just one prime of the pan.

[Macmac]

Oh sure you can......

[kwhi43@kc.rr.com]

If you have ever used any 7 F, You would not dought me. Several guys at
our club have used it and have noticed this.

[Shultzhaus]

Didn't know there was such a thing as 7f. Or does that come out of a mortar and pestle?

[kwhi43@kc.rr.com]

No, I thought everybody was familar with the different sizes of Black Powder.
You can buy 1F 2F 3F 4F 7F . I bought a can of 7F about 5 years ago.
A little last a long time. The 7F came in a 1lb. can like everything else. It rea
lly is just a "Powder" The problem is that just the top surface will flash.
Leaving the rest in the pan ready for a second flast. Sometimes a third.

[Oldnamvet]

Sometimes I can get three flashes on just one prime of the pan.

Having a hard time with that. When I use 4F or 3F bp in the pan, it ALL goes if any goes. Why would only part of it burn and require another spark for the rest to go?

[mykeal]

7f burns very fast, so much so that it may not last long enough that the heat of combustion transfers to adjacent crystals. That can also be a disadvantage, in that you need a good shower of sparks to ignite a sizable amount of the powder and produce enough hot gas to ignite the main charge. 7f is a great flash powder option, but you need a good lock and flint; it's not very forgiving of junk.

kwhi43@kc.rr.com: many people are not aware of 1f and 7f; there are probably more who don't know of them than do. Even 4f is kind of an unknown granulation, although not as much as 7f. They don't make 1f, 4f and 7f substitutes, and the real black granulations are not displayed on the shelf, so many just getting into the sport, or even some who've been around awhile, haven't ever seen it. It's just us old, well, geezers, who have had experience with it.

[kwhi43@kc.rr.com]

Yes, You are right MyKeal. I mix the 7F and 4F for my priming. Works good
when mixed 50-50. I guess this gives me about 5 1/2 F

[Mike OTDP]

Swiss Null B. Accept no substitutes.

[moonax]

Sometimes this powder is called "meal". I agree with Ol
nam vet once it goes it all goes. the charge in the barrel venting out the touch hole would take care of that.