Wow Joe, you're just too good to me!
If I had known that you would be so generous, I probably never would have started on the flat spring action with flat (now octagon) top that will be my BPCS rifle in .45-70.
Yes, I too take apart and shuffle parts of various 'walls as you well know, and I will be the very first to agree that assembly and disassembly of the flat springs is about 2 orders of magnitude easier than the coil spring actions. That's why I would never be satisfied with a BPC rifle with coil spring. What I DO contend, however, is that a coil spring .22 rf rifle (like my low-wall musket that has been "customized") is one I can just shoot 'til the cows come home (that's a looong time for you yankee readers!
) Meanwhile, if I am out shooting my flat spring .45-70 or even the old original .32-40 w/ smokeless, I will probably have a spare mainspring in my kit.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! Froggie
PS As our illustrius left coast ancestor would say, any rifle is fine as long as it's a 'wall! ttfn!