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getting ready for this one who else will be there? 🎯 :thumb:

flints can be sized with a pr of pliers nibble the back (can notch)the flint w safety glasses on

try 65 grns of 3f swiss with #40 drill cloth lubed with mutton lube 100 yrds off the bench sight in shots to the right then move front sight

tallow mutton🐑

have fun with the build (the lock is the weakest part of the gun I replaced it with the L&R, and a trigger pinned through the stock)100 yrd sight in 65grns swiss 3f 490 ball #40 drill cloth tallow lube

green mtn .50 36inch barrel w small siler

took 5 min. in my drill press ( hand drill would also work) with files

the British used mutton tallow for 200 yrs and would have used something else if it was better here are 3 different barrels makers , Green mtn, getz ,2 Bobby Hoyt use a double boiler dip patching squeeze out extra then wrap tight, should feel waxy (less need to wipe between shots ) but when...

making your own can be fun but be ready for a lot of waist and band aids

with easter near contact a butcher for lamb/sheep tallow the shop near dixon's keeps it in their freezer(just make sure it's salt free)

yup peep sights work

But this pig can shoot almost as good as my B Hoyt barrels at 100 yrds ,the 3 to the right before moving sight(sight in ) this was with old lock the new one is Much faster 🐖🐖 and being that this rifle was a gift from my son , I just have the cost of the lock and my time, well worth it to give my...

I was given a Kentucky kit traditions as a covid project from my son in CO I put it together for my grandson🎯 who likes red . So I tried to dress it up, tuning the lock and trigger(repinned through the stock) but never very happy with the lock:doh:well a trip to the gun makers fair and talked...

you can make a good rifle ( my son sent this as a covid project kit) not what I would have bought, have fun and tune (or replace the lock) weaken the frizen spring reshape the frizen foot (to open wider) the rifle is now waiting till grandson is older, he likes red. shoots good with65 grns 3f...

just remember you have about 80-60% waist

If you want to find out about Iron barrels call Brad at Cabin Creek he forges iron barrels from a lot of iron he has salvaged from (I Believe an old ship) he finds the barrel harmonics much more forgiving of loads

for the berks guys ,we now live in Berks , moved from and hunted in Lycoming (flintlock season there was only flintlock) do you wear hunter orange in the mixed season(rifle doe)

Here in the USA we don't have flint , we have chert (flint only forms in chalk deposits , like the cliffs of dover england and chert forms in limestone & we have lots of limestone in USA) both are silica (glass like) so unless other impurities are present it will not absorb water /oil. some...