Westley Richards Rifle

Yesterday was opening day of early muzzleloader in
NJ.Used my 1830s vintage Westley Richards stalking rifle to take a decent 6 pointer.

16 bore percussion 30 inch barrel half stock
1.1" at the breech, tapered. 10 lands and grooves
1/60 twist
Weight-about 7 pounds
65 gr. 2F Swiss
16 ga cushion wad
.625 ball .022 mink oil patch

Duane

Grats on the buck! :thumbsup:
Now show us the pics! Of the deer AND the rifle!

Congratulations!

:hatsoff:

HD

Congratulations! Good job on the hunt.
I would really like to see that rifle, it sounds really interesting.
Idaho PRB

jethro224 said:

Grats on the buck! :thumbsup:
Now show us the pics! Of the deer AND the rifle!

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I'd love to show you some pics but I don't have a clue to posting them on this site. Yes, I am challanged. I can email them to someone if their willing to post them.

Duane

Congratulations! :thumbsup:

Congrats Duane! :thumbsup:
Photobucket t'ain't that hard to use. http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/223970/

sent ya a PT

Nice, grats Duane. :thumbsup:

Here's Duane's pix;













Nice gun Duane. :thumbsup: Looks like that dog'll hunt too. :wink:

absolutely fantastic rifle and thank god it has returned to the hunting field where it belongs. i have a Blanch and Son 20 bore (.62) sporting rifle from 1840's that i hunt with every year. congrats.

Jethro:

Thanks for posting them.

Merry Christmas

Duane

Great buck and nice rifle. :thumbsup: Can you tell us the story of the hunt?

One good looking gun and deer to go with it! Please tell us the story of the hunt.

wvbuckbuster said:

One good looking gun and deer to go with it! Please tell us the story of the hunt.

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There's not too much drama to it. I've been hunting the same land for 25 years on Schooley's Mountain, NJ. My stand has always been in the same general location. My office is located about 15 minutes away, so I'm able to sneak out in the afternoon for a couple of hours. I got into the woods around 2:30. There was a doe by my stand. She moved off without being spooked. About 20 minutes later another doe and a spike came by, and the spike bedded down about 25 yards in front of me. The buck I shot came in from the opposite direction, behind me and to my right. I don't like to take moving shots so I let him keep going until I was able to stop him by sort of bleating at him. When he stopped I let him have it. He ran about 50 yards and folded. After checking him out, I went back to my truck to get rid of the rifle and my parka. When I came back, I jumped several more deer in front of my stand but I don't know if any had horns.

Duane

Duane said:

Jethro:

Thanks for posting them.

Merry Christmas

Duane

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No problem Duane. Glad to help. If you get a photobucket account I'll help you figger out how to do it yourself. You'd be amazed how easy it is.

Sounds like you had a pretty great hunt. :thumbsup:

Merry Christmas to you too,
Jethro

Good stuff right there. :thumbsup:

Hi all !!!

Sweet !!! You can tell quality when all the Screw's are "clocked" !!!.. :thumbsup:

Wow! How did I miss this thread? That's got to be a wonderful feeling to make meat with a rifle from such a legendary maker.

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That is one fine looking original! What a great hunt :thumbsup: :thumbsup: