Shot my 1884 Trapdoor yesterday.

[koger]

I have had this trapdoor for over a year. It has nice blue fading to patina, a very nice bright bore with sharp rifling. It shot a good group, but I had to raise the Buffington sight up to get it to shoot to point of aim. The guy I got if off of had removed the pin in the front sight post, and put in a piece of copper with a tiny bead on it, to shoot 500+gr bullets with. I shoot mostly 350 HPs and 405's I mold myself. I decided I wanted get the regular sights shooting to point of aim. It was shooting about 8 inches low at 100yds. I looked at the sight in relation to point of impact, and buzzed off what I thought was right with a Dremel tool, and went back out to shoot it. Was about 2" low. A few strokes with a file, and it was shooting dead on. After dressing the side of the front sight, I took a brass hammer, and with a couple of taps, made a bead on the top of the front sight face. I then cold blued the copper, and put a drop of bright orange paint on the bead, followed by some clear coat when it dried. I later shot 3 shots, sandbagged at 100yds, into 1 3/4" group. Not too shabby for a 135 year old rifle, and 57 year old eyes.I am a happy camper. I plan to take a deer, or two with this rifle this year here in KY, limit myself to about 150-200yds. Just thought I would share.

[tbx-4]

Photos or it didn't happen. :wink:

[Frank V]

Great those old rifles still work. Are you shooting Black?

[koger]

15 grains of Unique, with a 350 gr Lyman/Goulds HP I mold myself. I sorted them by weight, did not size them, sprayed with Moly coating to completely eliminate leading.

[Gray Fox]

What kind of moly coating are you using? I might want to try that. GF

[bigted]

I also would like to hear about your spray moly. Method. And pictures ...

[koger]

I have about 3 large cans made by Lyman, not sure they still make it or not. I sit my bullets up on a cheap plastic lazy susan in cross pattern, that way I can spray one side and rotate them around, then switch my position and spray the back side as I rotate them around. Quick and easy, only takes a couple of minutes. It seems like all my rifles like the unsized bullets just a little better than the sized and lubed ones. No need to lube, the moly takes care of that.

[415m3]

Is this the stuff?

https://www.lymanproducts.com/super-moly-spray

[koger]

Yep, that is the stuff!

[bigted]

Boy, not cheap ... how many boolits will a 13 oz can do?

[koger]

1000 or more

[bigted]

Oh woww