A shooter can get accustomed to most any degree of lock time. I have seen some fantastic shooting done with m/l with exremely slow lock time, as compared to today's standard. The key is in shooting a gun, or guns, with nearly the same lock time. A flintlock shotgun requires a much better follow through than a modern breechloader. A man that is good with a m/l will shoot your eyes out with a breechloader. Kinda like shooting snooker for a time, then going back to nine ball.
"Beware the man with one gun" is an old axiom with much basis in fact, lock time being a part, albeit a small part, of it.
SRH
Last edited by Stan; 04/27/14 03:19 PM.
