Hey why not, my daughter and I shoot competitively. Two of my son's , daughter and I hunt the PA flintlock Christmas season ( we hunt most ever day during this season, snow included , in fact we hope for snow). All the guns have white lightening touch hole liners. We never pick, the hole diameter that is in the liner is what we go with ( think it's something like .056), we never drill it out(bigger). We all have "brass pencil primers", one push is all the powder that goes in the pan. We never concern ourselves with banking powder one way or the other. The guns during hunting season get carried, leaned against a tree, picked up and fired. I don't want to jinks myself but the guns go off 99% of the time , fast. We do dump prime powder frequently (5,6,7 times a day ) while hunting. The touch hole placement is sun rise or sun set or even with top of pan what ever you call this location. My take from this thread is : don't get your panties in an uproar, just keep the hole close to the flash in the pan. Currently building a gun with a Chambers Early Germanic lock , the most challenging lock I've used to date to position "properly". This hole is going to be below the "Sunset " position, not going to sweat it. It's all good, thanks to all for your inputs. Steve
