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Post by missionary on Feb 23, 2016 15:52:33 GMT -7
Greetings Why 5 ? There is no way to regulate such fun shooting firearms down to one... unless that is all you have ! Happily my dad shot 69's on a regular basis with his Navy buddy in SW Michigan. Many a Saturday or Sunday I got to tag along and watch, smell and wonder at the monster long muskets and fine flinters barking all around. Plus there was always some very kind ladies sitting with pots over fires that took pity on the skinny little boy. What days those were !
1 Replica caliber .60 trade rifle flintlock. My favorite crow gun and hunting river bottoms smoothbore rifle. 38 inch barrel maple stock. Siler lock (large size). 2 Replica double barrel .62 flintlock. Barrels were on a Belgium repro that got rebuilt with L&R locks. Barrels are very heavy for a muzzle loader so is well suited for a double round ball gun. 3 Original Model 1819 Harpers Ferry Hall caliber 54. Been out corn cruncher hunting twice with it and one day will get to pull that fine adjustable trigger on a bean robber. 4 Original 1816 caliber 69 flintlock musket. This was an attic piece found out in Massachusetts about 30 years ago. Been the nicest 69 I have owned, Dad would have liked it a bunch. 5 Replica 1863 caliber 58 Zouave Navy Arms. Have busted more white tails with this musket than I can remember. Never failed to harvest them and round ball always exited.
The originals are exibited at the Vermilion County War Museum. If ever in the Danville ILLinois area drop by. Vetrans are admitted free . Mike in Peru |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 16:52:58 GMT -7
Have a couple, just need to get out n' use 'em...
1. Caywood Wilson Trade Gun, 41" 20 ga, jug choke, very nice wood, mid-1700's style.
2. Northwest Trade gun, 24 ga, 30" barrel, flinch-lock, hand made by someone, about 20 years ago, light n' handy.
3. Leman style .58 caliber plains rifle, flinch-lock, iron hardware.
Really need to put these through their paces more than have over the past few years...
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Post by missionary on Feb 23, 2016 19:05:03 GMT -7
Howdy Outsidebear
I hear them jug chokes will throw a fine pattern.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 9:14:08 GMT -7
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Post by missionary on Feb 25, 2016 5:45:08 GMT -7
Good morning
There are some Turkey hunters who think very highly of Mr Caywood's barrels. You should give it a try.
I have immense amounts of fun trying to pop called crows with my .60 Trade gun. On a good day can connect solidly 50%.
It does nicely out to 50 yards with a patched .585 ball.
Mike
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Post by mike on Mar 2, 2016 9:55:47 GMT -7
Outsidebear, I'll bet that .58 Leman shoots real well. Shoot sharp, Mike
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 16:25:00 GMT -7
mike, Doesn't pay to rush into things ya know!  One of these days. Sometimes the traveling/wandering cuts into other doings we'd like to be attending to. |
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Post by missionary on Mar 3, 2016 15:41:20 GMT -7
Greetings Bear
I hear you on that "rushing in". One thing we do is drive a lot when up north there seeing family and supporting churches. It does cut into the range time. But there are those higher priority issues that need taken care of.
I di think you will enjoy it when you can get it loaded up. Maybe even a crow will dare to come along and caw at you.
Mike in Peru
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Post by mike on Mar 6, 2016 8:02:55 GMT -7
Let me think, my five favorite muzzleloaders... Well, to begin with there is Ol' Horsefeathers, the .52 caliber percussion Hawken my father built for me. That rifle took a passel of deer and one black bear. Then there is The Captain, a .54 caliber Leman style flintlock made by Jack Garner. That's the rifle I got my one and only caribou with while on a hunt in Quebec. Let me follow that with a rifle I call Ol' Uncle Dave, named after the builder, Dave Dolliver. This is another half-stock Hawken, a flintlock but in .54 caliber and the stock is so dense that this rifle weighs 11 pounds with its 35" barrel. That's the rifle I used to drop my one and only buffalo (so far) with a one-shot kill through the heart. The buff was a yearling bull and the ball went all the way through from about 80 yards. Little Tacky has to be mentioned in this line-up, that's my short 20 gauge NW gun with a 20" barrel. Don't let those short barrels kid you, they can really perform. This gun has only one duck to its credit but that is in addition to several prizes it has brought me at rendezvous and trade gun frolics. That's a lot of gun in a small package. And last I'll mention So Tacky, my latest Leman flintlock. This is another .52 caliber and that gets fed with .512" diameter balls, now available from custom molds. So Tacky uses a Burton barrel with a tapered bore, some doin's! There's my list of five muzzleloaders as I see things at this moment. Of course, one good shot from another gun could initiate changes in this line-up. Shoot sharp, Mike
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Post by Junior on Mar 10, 2016 23:26:57 GMT -7
Don't currently own a muzzle loader. Saw a pretty nice one a couple weeks back at a antique store for $200, but from what I could see at the muzzle it looked pitted, and he wouldn't let me point a bore light down it, so I passed.
Trying to get a AR15 right now, since I want to get into 3 gun competition, but thinking I need to solve this muzzle loader issue before too much longer.
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Post by missionary on Mar 12, 2016 14:37:21 GMT -7
Howdy Sierra
I remember well when my only smoke pole was a CVA caliber 45 kit found at the PX in Hiedelburg West Germany. Did a lot of the work on it with my Buck 101 3 blade till some 2nd Luey made me turn it into the arms room??
We all get to start some where. Keep your eagle eye open.. bound to be an affordable well hunted beast buster looking for a new home.
Mike in Peru
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Post by elmo on Jun 13, 2017 11:09:19 GMT -7
1. My long range muzzle loader. TC renegade converted. Green Mountain 36" octagon, 452 bore, 1 in 16 twist, custom Rapine mold 500 gr bullet. Shoots close to minute of angle. Longest shot so far 16" plate at 637 yards 5 shots in 7 1/2".
2. Lyman plains rifle 50 caliber
3. TC Hawken 50 caliber Lyman aperture sights on both ends. Killed more than I can remember. Fast twist barrel, Shoot a lee real bullet modified to hollow point, 65 grains Swiss 1 1/2. Lyman aperture both ends.
4. TC Renegade .50 caliber fast twist barrel. Shoot HP Real bullet. Lyman aperatures both ends.
5. TC Renegade converted to .58 caliber, flintlock round ball gun. Lyman aperture both ends.
my first muzzle loader was a 45 caliber H&R break open back in 1975.
Elmo
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Post by 54bore on Jun 29, 2017 0:18:49 GMT -7
I am a Thompson Center fan, i own 1 Lyman Great Plains Hunter .54 Cal 1:32 twist, the rifle is starting to grow on me, it shoots really well, 1 TC Hawken i call my 'Hotrod Hawken' it has a Green Mountain LRH (Long Range Hunter) .45 Cal barrel, i have 2 TC Renegades with Green Mountain LRH Barrels, a Stainless .50 Cal 1:28 twist, and my newest addition as of today is a Green Mountain LRH .54 Cal 1:28 Twist, i have had Custom molds built for each Rifle, i shoot Paper Patch bullets exclusively. I am shooting my .45 'Hotrod Hawken' out to 500 yards, my best group is 3 shots in 7" at 505 yards with peep sights, the bullets i use for the 500 yard stuff are from Buffalo Arms, they are .444-400, i use 2 wraps of 9# onion skin paper and run them through a .449 finish sizer (just to iron the paper) I have 3 TC Scout Rifles, 2 .54s and a .50 Cal, All of my rifles have Tang mounted peep sights (Except the Scouts, they are reciever mounted) i prefer either the Lyman 57SML or Williams FP Hawken, my 'Hotrod Hawken' .45 Cal has a Williams FP Hawken peep with TK (Target Knobs) all of my rifles also have Lyman Globe Front sights and i use bpcr inserts from Lee Shavers
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Post by elmo on Jul 14, 2017 14:28:13 GMT -7
I like Shavers inserts also. They are all that I use.
Elmo
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Post by Bullshop on Jul 14, 2017 18:18:29 GMT -7
I have two favorites because two ML is all I have. I have an Italian single barrel fouler 12 gauge percussion that is a nice gun. All I have ever shot from it is patched round ball and to 50 yards it does pretty good.
My rifle is a 54 cal custom slow twist long barrel on a Wesson pattern lock in what I will call a Hawken or frontier style. One unique feature of the Wesson pattern is that the barrel is threaded to what is more a receiver than just a lock. A very rigid arraignment. The Wesson pattern was used on long range sniper rifles to good affect by the Confederacy during that other troubled time in our country.
I no longer have but regret selling a 32 cal squirrel rifle. I enjoyed the little 32 percussion very much and given opportunity would have another. I thought it interesting that my little 32 using a 38 special case as a dipper for powder charge and a 40gn round ball got 2000 fps MV the same MV that a 22 WMR gets with a 40gn bullet. Ballistic twins at close range delivering about the same performance on small game. Kewl!!!
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One of these days.
