I have noticed that in the YouTubes even some 'cheap' flinters fire nicely when the operator is in gear, but many of the seasoned shooters with custom stuff seem to have negligible lock time. Then again.... no shortage of folks who explain that hang fire is inevitable then set on proving it... :/ On the "History" channel it bothers me even more now that I have a slight grip on how much I don't know about flint ignition.
Only know what we've read about Chamber's work, but there is something very clean about that frizzen spring thing of a doo hickey right there. It just looks like it works....