Just got confirmation!
 

She's going out today!

If I can get her sighted in fairly quickly and dead on at 100 yards, this will be my new hog gun for the hunt Falcon, my dad, brother and I are going on.

I'll be shooting patched round balls as usual in this but MAY try some conicals. I sold off most of my conical molds so right now all I have left is the 370gr Maxiball mold and a handful of round ball molds.

We'll see how she does. It looks like either steel or aluminum sights. Hopefully not the plastic ones or else I am going to have to tap some traditional sights into place in a big hurry.

Traditions Woodsman Hawken .50cal Percussion with 28" barrel and 1:48 twist. If she shoots like my traditions kentucky flinter, I'll be in good hands.

You don't have faith in the .58 PRB?

Full faith but I wanted something new to try out as well. I'll bring both and possibly swap out every other day or morning/afternoon deal.

I have that exact same rifle. 85 grains of Goex 2f and a .490 patched round ball. Very very accurate rifle. Nice shooter too. Except mine is a flintlock.

He could also be extending his range a little with those connies too Pete. If he is going sooner rather than later he may want to use those connies more than he thinks. That fat layer built up on top of that shield is a pretty hard pumpkin to pop. I'm far from against the use of PRB but I also know the limitations of them when it comes to penetration issues. Mid winter hogs of any substantial size will require pretty good penetration values. Summertime, shoot away, wintertime, use the best penetration you have available to you.

Maybe it's just me... but how many of you feel that a patch box is totally unnecessary on a common production rifle like the one MD has posted a pic.of? I used to keep a jag in the patchbox of my first T/C Hawken but that faded away. I never had a problem with not having one on the Renegades I own. I think they have their place on custom rifles that are supposed to look period correct, other than that I think they're a waste of materials and time and are unnecessary. Maybe they could lower their costs a bit if they weren't wasting time and materials on something the majority of ML shooters don't use. Just my thoughts...

BPS

I have numerous rifles with patch boxes. As far as I am concerned they are for looks only. I have never used them for what they "might have been intended for."

To me, they have the same value as a brass butt plate. Absolutely nothing but looks! Them brass butt plates are pretty but with heavy charges they hurt!

They mostly are a waste of space and extra weight. In my .58cal I carry a couple dry patches and a wad of TOW for swabbing the bore in the field after I shoot something.

Got her today!

I originally ordered a flinter as I previously stated and they said they were out.

Opened the box and read the label and figured they mislabeled it.

Its a flinter!

I got the lock cleaned up, lubed up with my anti rust lube and barricade on the insides.

She throws a great deal of sparks that sizzle in the pan.

Im still going through the rifle now cleaning it, but over all, I am very happy with the rifle to this point.

Next important step is to clean the bore and take a look with my camera.

Good deal Devil. Someone must have looked on a high shelf and said, "Hey, there's a flinter back here!"

Of course, we'll be looking for a range report.

Will do!

I have a hog hunt planned with Falcon. Will be headed his way on the 6th of march. I have some time to get this flinter sighted in and take it IF I feel comfortable with it. I think 75 yards may be my max range with it for now.

Just got her cleaned up, bore looks amazing, nice deep rifling, the breech is drilled at and angle so when you load the main charge, it funnels it into the touch hole liner area. I liked that, hopefully its an improvement.

Took some bore pics as well. All looks well except for some scratches here and there. The rifling is sharp, so I'll run about 20 shots through it with my shoot out lube to smooth out those imperfections.

I'll have more to come later on down the road.

More testing tomorrow in denver to see if my neck has nerve damage as the shots wore off less than 3 months after getting them. booo!

I cleaned the lock and removed the vasoline stuff on the frizzen spring, relubed with my anti rust lube, insides got a coating of barricade, installed a new french amber flint wrapped in leather.

At first, the frizzen wouldnt completely open. The flint was striking less than half way ( Wont fully open when striking half way on frizzen) on the frizzen, so I flipped it and it was almost hitting the top of the frizzen. Gave that a try and she threw a nice shower of sparks into the pan which sat down there sizzling for at least 1/2 a second before going out. I did it about a dozen more times with excellent results.

Overall, I am very happy with the rifle! Bore looks clean and feels super smooth. Some scratches in the rifling but I will take care of that easily. Nice clean trigger, great looking stock.

I'll have more pics and info later when I get to shooting her.