The speed of your lock as nothing to do with accuracy or how well you shoot. All of that stuff is up in our heads. It does not matter if your lock time is 2 full seconds. What matters is your ability to control your body to hold the rifle motionless during 2 explosions that occur near your face.
As in archery, poor results are the result of poor form. Poor form is always the issue. How I battle it is simple. I hold my rifle of choice shouldered for as long as I physically can focused on an imagined target on an almost daily basis. This aids in shoulder strength and steadiness.
Some of us are mere mortals and a fast lock time is vital to our shooting success. I guess we just aren't as perfect as you say you are. 
Actually Daryl, we are
all. mortals, and while I am not perfect, I do seek perfection as all men should. With that said, I simply said that lock ignition time has nothing to do accuracy from a physics standpoint. Something I thought most mature shooters understood. Provided a rifle has sound rifling, A patch that fills the rifling, and a snug ball and proper charge, the rifle will shoot in the same hole if shot from a mechanical bench, regardless if the lock time is 3 days long......While the flintlock on my rifle as been tuned by me (in that search for perfection) to be "fast", it is not as fast as say a good percussion lock on a Hawken rifle, but that in no way shape or form makes the Hawken more "accurate" or easier to shoot.
Perhaps it would be better to say that while fast locks don't make guns any more accurate, they do give those who suffer from flinching at the shot a little better chance of staying on the paper.
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