Glorious shooting weather, remembered everything except the stapler to pin up the targets,
couldn't find it.
Had a bucket of water, a lambswool mop and a thin bronze brush to hold a paper kitchen
towel for drying. I swabbed and dried between every shot to try and remove the fouling that
I thought was cutting the patches. Had a few pan flashes due to the extreme wet
but it seems to work. I recovered 6 patches and not a tear or trace of blowby on any
of them. Not easy finding patches in with the Autumn leaves. They were all round when
I cut them, think they sometimes stretch when I short start them..
first target, right up the top. Should have taken a spotting scope but I was a bit burdened
by water so I left it at home. I wound the foresight up (not enough) and got 10 out of 14 on
paper. The vertical stringing seems to be fixed, the horizontal is tricky
I think it may be the trigger pull, not easy to shoot when you have to pull quite that hard. I was
doing better than this with the rest before I went anal about the vertical component. The rest
doesn't help much with the vertical, think I may go back to it. Unfortunately it's just another thing
I have to carry from the carpark which is some distance away, puts you off taking unnecessary
items.
The sear spring looks okay, it's not lost it's tip, it's not exactly chunky, but it is very effective.
piece of the guns history and I love it. Green gunge has to stay even if it does make for a
bit of drag.
The springs may not be the way they used to be. Shooting buddy Nick has a Baker minus it's
frizzen spring, possibly dumped for having the same problem as mine, way too stiff for the main
spring, the frizzen hangs on a sharp flint. Lights okay just doesn't quite make it all the way down
the face.
Either the main has weakened or the frizzen has stiffened. makes me wonder if maybe the sear
spring could have stiffened to.