Shot the mountain rifle!

[frontier gander]

I finally finished up the rifle so i took her out and shot a 30 yard target. 6" low with 50 grains of PYRODEX! Yes thats right! Pyrodex is a flintlock works amazing for me in this rifle lol. Once i clear the vent hole, i push a tiny bit of 4g into there and then prime my rifle. So far after taking 2 shots and then adjusting the sights, i got 2 out of 3 shots into the same hole. Im now shooting 70 grains of pyrodex RS and so far got it sighted center. The only problem i am having is ive run out of flints, so i have to go chip some out and make a new supply of flint. The rifle shoots beautifully @ 30 yards. The hole is leaves is huuuge!

The pan also holds the powder away from the touchhole, like it should do and the powder is perfectly inline with the shower of sparks. I really love this rifle now

[cayugad]

I have shot some duplex loads with other powders and as long as I added a little black powder first, the delay was not as bad as one might expect...

You chip out your own flints.. that's cool.

[frontier gander]

Did a little testing today with the frizzen. I swapped it onto my traditions lock and put a flint on that wasnt sparking, Pulled the trigger and it just showered a stream of sparks. Put my traditions frizzen onto the cva lock, same flint, 1 tiny little spark. Seeing how both frizzens showered sparks with the same flint while on the traditions lock. i found that the cva frizzen spring was bent up and no good. No big deal, now i will have sure fire if i do my part. Just ordered a new spring off ebay. Good thing i have a back up flintlock its always good to have a spare to test parts on.