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  1. GAHUNTER60

    My 3rd muzzleloader Bull Elk

    Colorado elk must be tougher than those in Idaho. The Colorado division of Wildlife says their elk can not be killed with a .50 caliber round ball -- legally, that is!
  2. GAHUNTER60

    What have you done to further the muzzleloading hobby?

    I do a lot of shooting at a public DNR range in North Georgia. This range is dominated by black rifle fanatics with a few sporting rifles and reloaders thrown in for good measure. Every time I show up with a flintlock or even one of my Hawken rifles, I quickly become the center of...
  3. GAHUNTER60

    Somebody please make a video.....

    ....of shooting 777 in their flintlock! I only bring this up because we have a couple of guys in our club who shoot matches using straight 777 (no duplex loads) in their flinters, and very seldom have a misfire. (Of course, they use 4f black in their pans) I'm sure individual results would...
  4. GAHUNTER60

    I just received this from Estes Rockets about the GOEX plant!!!!!!!!!

    Are we still looking at next year before any of their powder hits the market? (I have more immediate needs)
  5. GAHUNTER60

    Kibler Locks

    It's a round-faced, English lock, according to the invoice (I wouldn't know the difference). When I bought it, I ordered two dozen black English flints off the internet, along with two extra of the French amber flints carried by Kibler. So far, I'm on my second of the amber flints, however...
  6. GAHUNTER60

    Kibler Locks

    Dang they`re Good! I've got about 250-300 shots behind me now without a single failure to ignite the powder in the pan -- and I'm only on my second flint! The only flash in the pan I've had was due to a goop buildup on the plug in a long duration match -- easily remedied with a plug scraper...
  7. GAHUNTER60

    Had a problem with my Kibler Colonial (operative word "had")

    I seem to have fixed it by doing something folks here say wouldn't work. Well, it worked! The problem was, every since I completed my .54-caliber Kibler and started shooting it, it was one-and-done if I didn't clean the barrel between shots. Seriously, one shot was all you could get. Shot...
  8. GAHUNTER60

    If I was a man living on the frontier during the revolution what would I have carried?

    In the long-running blog Frontier Partisans, author Jim Cornelius states (with no documentation) that most of Shelby`s men that crossed the mountains carried rifles made by Jacob Dickert in Pennsylvania. Like I said, no documentation. I did read somewhere that at least one "Deckhert" rifle was...
  9. GAHUNTER60

    What can I use to increase moisture resistance of my stock?

    Thanks guys, as always! I just orders some Renaissance paste wax off Amazon for $17.50 with free shipping. I've got a few guns that could use a coat of it! Larry Potterfield's moisture test video with it on Youtube is pretty impressive!
  10. GAHUNTER60

    What can I use to increase moisture resistance of my stock?

    I used Minwax Antique oil to finish my Kibler Colonial stock. I really like the look, as it is very low-luster, as a woods rifle should be. However, I just read a woodworker's review of the product where he listed the moisture resistance of wood finished with it as "poor." That's not really...
  11. GAHUNTER60

    How to stop misfires?

    I was getting only two shots without hammering my .530 ball surrounded with a .018 pillow ticking patch, lubed with mink oil. But I did notice the other day that the second shot was going down the unswabbed bore much easier than it was just a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it's getting "seasoned"...
  12. GAHUNTER60

    How to stop misfires?

    Shot my first match with my Kibler Colonial yesterday. Everything was going swimmingly, until shot number 28. That`s when things went to Hades! Started with a single flash in the pan. So I picked the flash hole and tried again -- another flash. Pick again, another flash! By now, everyone...
  13. GAHUNTER60

    Preparing to brown the barrel

    It says in the directions to apply lightly in one long motion without excessive rubbing. Believe them: DO NOT RUB THE SOLUTION ON THE BARREL! If you do, the areas you rubbed will look like a shiny new copper penny! Don`t ask me how I know this. :doh: BTW, I left the lock on my Kibler in the...
  14. GAHUNTER60

    The Timothy Murphy shot.

    That "miscalculation" probably cost Britain its American colonies. BTW, it was George Bernard Shaw insinuating incompetence, not me. It's a fascinating subject, but, I fear, not one suited for this particular thread on Timothy Murphy's rifle. But while we are circling back to Murphy's shot...
  15. GAHUNTER60

    The Timothy Murphy shot.

    The "incompetence" General Bergoyne (and Shaw) was referring to was the fact that the battle plan called for Bergoyne to move his army from Quebec south towards Albany, and General William Howe was to move his Army from New York, north along the Hudson, crushing the rebels in a pincer, and thus...
  16. GAHUNTER60

    The Timothy Murphy shot.

    All my life I have heard about the Timothy Murphy shot at Saratoga reported as iron-clad, historical fact. I never had any reason to doubt the story, especially considering the great detail included in the account of "the shot that saved America!" Now I find out that what I've been told ain't...
  17. GAHUNTER60

    The heavier my load....

    It's a 43.5" Green Mountain barrel with 1-66", square bottom, rifling. I don't consider 100 grains to be a particularly heavy load (for hunting), as this is what I have used in my percussion guns for years. Yes, it's heavy for a match load, but match shooting is something I only do...
  18. GAHUNTER60

    Another Stupid Human Trick.....

    Last week I put two dry loads down the barrel in four shots. (Do you know how long it takes to get enough powder through the touch hole to punch a 225-grain ball out the muzzle?) :doh: Both times the rangemaster had come over to ask me about my rifle while I was running wet patches down the...
  19. GAHUNTER60

    How many shots can you get?

    I retired the amber flint that came with my Kibler Colonial rifle today after 80 shots. I had knapped it twice and might could have gotten away with one more, but most of the bevel was gone, so I bit the bullet and put in a new one. Hopefully, this new one will last as long as the original.
  20. GAHUNTER60

    The heavier my load....

    The more my new Kibler Colonial .54 likes it! This is a five shot group at 75 yards with 100 grains of FFg, .530 ball, .018 patch lubed with TOTW mink oil. I got the POI up by using what I call a "heavy" sight picture (where I let the front sight completely cover the target). I think this...
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