New Knight 45
 

Well it finally got here...
My first and last new ML for 2010...

The thing is new!!!




Hope I have it ready to shoot early next week...

Boy that's a nice looking ML Mike! where did you find it?
(BP)

That looks super nice Pete. I don't believe this first and last business though. It's only January.
Art

Bet that will shoot those long heavy conicals well!the guys with .45 calibers and 460 no excuse claim thier deadly accurate..

My first and last new ML for 2010...









Sorry Mike, Just had to do it !!!! ONE SWEET RIFLE !!!!!

Congrats on a fine looking ml. I bet you will find a way to shoot it as soon as possible.

Me too.Just could not resist. Lee
Also have a question, do you think the disk is the best knight? I have been looking at some of them but kind of leaning to the break open. Lee

Guys! it is aNew Years Resolution.... I am attending ML's anonymous in Mississippi with Tiger!

lemoyne

Do not get a break open Knight... I really do like the strength and accuracy of the DISC and if we get the breech fouling cleaned up -it would be awesome....

The only time I even thing about the breech fouling is at the range - hunting it is an unconcern...

Sharp gun. Hit the range...run us a report!

The Knight Vision is a great ML. Very clean and really easy to use. I do prefer the Bolt action Elite but the Vision is a great ML. The Visions do have a problem with primers. You stand a pretty good chance of having to send it back. A second one of mine has been sent back.

Sabotloader, i would keep that thing new in the box until and if you need it. :wink:

Grouse45

Whut! Are you saying don't drink it - I mean shoot it? Aint gonna happen didnt git fer the throphy case...

Gotta shoot it how will i ever know ifn it is a shooter if I don't shoot it?

Gotta shoot it... I have new scope mounts and everything for it.

Nice looking rifle, but I am not sure if I am sold on the .45 caliber. I have two of them and they are accurate, but I like a .50. Although, that is a nice rifle. I am sure it will be a shooter for you. And I agree.. Don't Shoot it? What the heck is that?

cayugad

Dave iwould only have the 45 after i had a great 50 that I could always rely on...

Good luck finding an Elite that doesn't shoot.:guiness:

Is that the "billyzink" gun that was listed on gunbroker? If so, I was waiting for the very last hour to come around of the auction and got called away at the last minute when I was going to bid. I pm'ed him afterward and he said it had already sold. After reading all the good things others have said about that model sooner or later I'm going to find one. Congrats on a beautiful gun.

deer655

No this did not come off Gun Broker... It was a private party in the midwest...

Yes Indeed!!!

...I predict boring sub MOA groups...Yawn..Over and over again:nonono2:

With tiresome projectiles like Lehigh 180's, 200g Shockwaves/SST's, 200g 10mm/40cal XTP's, and throw in some of dem Semisane---insufferable 210g .410 Gold Dots:s12: :sad:

On second thought, ya... just leave it all packed up, or send it to someone in Nebraska for storage:happy0001::D:cool15::barmy::woot: :happy0157: :groupwave:

LaneNebraska

Ya know Lane! think I will just hang on to it and enjoy some of those groups.... There are so many bullets to try....

Don't shoot? The only excuse not to shoot one is if it looks like this...

spaniel

What is that? Surely that is not he new one you are building!

HA, no, that thing will not handle Goex anymore much less smokeless. In fact my grandfather in a misguided attempt to make sure it was not attempted, corked the barrel about 30 years ago.

You can't read the plaque through the glass but this is a rifle that has been in my family AT LEAST since the 1860s. Probably earlier. From what I have learned over the years from people who know about such things, the gun as it sits today was probably put together in the 1820s-1840s. The barrel is probably a converted flintlock originally manufactured in the 1700s. My great-great-great grandfather carried this rifle in a little-known post-Civil War uprising called the Fienian Raids. A group of poorly coordinated Irish-American Civil War veterans decided to take control of Ontario and force the British to divert troops there from Ireland so that the Irish could force the rest of the Brits off the island. My g-g-g grandfather was most likely called up in the militia the first year of the Raids, when the Canadians basically carried whatever gun they had handy. A second Raid followed the next year, but by then the Canadians had re-armed with repeating weaponry and the US gov't decided they could not incite the Canadians (and British) by letting an invasion launch and be supplied across the US border so they cut the supply lines and the Raids ended.

Here are a few more pics. Not that at some point long ago the stock was cracked off and (sort of) repaired with metal strips. The lock is pretty corroded, for all I know the thing is still charged but I decided that, given its condition, I would leave the cork in and preserve as-is as trying to remove the cork and check for a load could severely damage the gun.

I built the case myself a couple Christmases ago so it can hang in house.


Belt from g-g-g grandfather's Canadian uniform:




Notice the detail on this boar's head, complete with glass eye:

PS - sorry for the highjack. :D

spaniel

Heck no I am a history teacher I love the information and the history of that great gun...

U know when we (they were writing the constitution) there were provision for Canada to become part of the Union... We really believed that Cananda really wanted to part ways with England just as we had. We were pretty bold with our thoughts in those days also.

Thanks for the information...

Good looking rifle SL, im sure it will be a dandy

If you ever get tired shooting it I'll buy it from you. Knights rule.:patriot:

I do fear our old buddy Sabotloader is stretching credibility a bit. Or maybe he's getting so old that he no longer remembers just how long a year actually is.