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    My favorite flintn rifle

    Steve Losey build this rifle. It is a Southern Mountain that was used for the fur trades.
    I wanted a rifle that looked like it was made in the back room shop with hand forged iron furniture, just like you would find for a 18/19 century working rifle. This rifle has a 44" 54cal rice barrel with chambers ketland lock with the lock plate reworked a little. The mating of the iron are joined with riveted coper wire. It has everything I looked for in my working rifle.
    When I took the rifle out to set the sights for 50 yards I put up a X target and took the first shot on the right side to get as close to the inside of the X and not cut the line. I shot with the barrel resting on cross sticks sitting on a stool. The sights did not need moving with the round ball and load of 2F OE powder. The rifle shoots!! and ignition is very fast. The vent cuts center with the top of the pan and is centered.
    The wind was up some that morning but the rifle put 5 balls one inch outside to out side of the group measurement.
    Last edited by Lead pot; 12-07-2016 at 12:46 AM.

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    Absolutely lovely rifle!!!! Love that patch box and obviously it is a shooter...well done, sir!
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    Nice!
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    Thank you.

    Please don't get me wrong when I say this. I like to look at rifles with silver inlays and fine fitting inlayed parts, but for me for a working rifle I feel comfortable with the poor boy or what most of that time period look like.

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    Nice lookin rifle lead pot, your gun has nice curl in it, I like it! What make Lock is that?
    My favorite Flintlock is a plain 45 cal. Pennsylvania rifle. It fits like a glove and it's my go to rifle for hunting.
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    The lock is a chambers ketland

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    I like it; very nice.
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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
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