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I'm not sold on big name barrels. The most accurate muzzleloader i have or have ever had is a Pedersoli flintlock, an off the shelf .50. From the bench rested fore and after, groups stay within dime size at 50 yards. I've never fired it at further distance. The downsides are that it has a patent breech and a 1:48 twist. That tiny group is with only 60 grains of 3F. A heavier charge opens the group too much for my liking so it will remain a 60 grain gun. Such is often the trouble with the 1:48s.
 
What's up with the rear sight on the Rocky Mt. model? Was that a sight that might have been used in the Hawken era. A very good looking rifle, but I've wondered about that sight since they came out.
And do you reckon it has a patent breech?
 
I wonder how much Mr. Kibler has cut in to the Pedersoli market.
Not a lot. Kibs makes specific types; Peder has lots of military stuff. Kib's genius is in engineering CNC with authenticity, coupled with easy assembly, a winning combination. Not to mention great service, reasonable price for what you get, and continuing innovation, e.g., the carving.
 
Pedersoli never makes a percussion REVOLVER, do they??

I recall many years ago, being all up for driving to Hamburg Cabela's when they had a sale for about $600! But it was Winter, cold, nasty, and I didn't want to drive up.
Yeah, mind puts on a little weight, too! I have an old Jack Garner SMR .45 flint that is light as a feather!
 
The interesting Lorenz was offered way too late; many Civil War enactor guys were retiring, and the greatest demand for them was ten years before they appeared. Some recreated regiments would have loved to have them, as their original units carried them in the actual Civil War.
I was disappointed that their Lorenz had a non-historically-correct patent breech, as well as a 90-degree fire channel with a hidden and inaccessible cleanout screw, rather than the direct vent channel it had historically.

I wish Pedersoli would stop monkeying with the fire channels and chambers in these muskets!
 
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