My New Old Rifle

[Gene Perryman]

Shot my New Old Rifle today for the first time after she'd been worked on by a friend. He went thru the lock, almost completely rebuilding it and enlarged the touch hole to 1/16th. The rifle was originally built by Jackie Brown.
The difference is night and day. Instead of measuring the lock time with a stop watch, it's now in milla-seconds. I can actually shoot the flint more than 3 or 4 times before I knap it!
It had been over a year since I'd shot it. Now she'll be shot probably a couple times a week.

 

[Jaegermeister]

Nice! Always a good feeling shooting with a noticeable improvement. Inspires me to get my flintlock out and do some shooting!

 

[Gene Perryman]

I shot it some this morning until the heat got to me. It shoots so good, I can't hardly wait till Monday morning to go burn some powder!!!

 

[MSW]

congrats - another happy rock banger

 

[SgtErv]

Outstanding good sir!

Flint placement is tricky, but once you get it in the sweet spot you'll be getting at least 25-30 shots out of your flint.

Good to see another happy flintlock shooter. There is something about them that's just awesome. You'll see that a bunch of us are rather hooked.

 

[Gene Perryman]

I forgot that my buddy rehardened and tempered the frizzen. It throws the sparks right to the middle of the pan...And it has an old large Siler which has a shorter throw than the new large Silers!
Now I got to find some lead to make some more balls

 

[SgtErv]

Sounds like you're in good shape. Siler locks will spoil a fella lol.

Good stuff! :hatsoff: