I modified a .54 caliber Caywood rifle to include the features I couldn't otherwise get. I reduced the barrel to 39" to clear the coning the bore previously had. I crowned the muzzle and dovetailed a taller front sight to replace the low sight that had previously been soldered on the barrel. I...
Well, they’re not making anymore of these. Here’s a nice original P53 Enfield with clear barrel stamps and barely visible stock cartouche. Sale includes Whitacre match barrel, Rich Cross sights as well as original barrel and bayonet. The stock is in very good shape with no cracks or breaks just...
Component packages have long been the cradle of craftsmanship. I had several of Kit Ravenshear's guns and he often used pre-carved stocks with machine inlet barrels, locks and buttplates. Jim Chambers has been making outstanding "kits" for a generation, with the price of a finished gun being...
I've never been able to afford a cheap rifle. I can't afford to spend several hundred dollars on an unsatisfactory gun, then lose a few hundred more when I cut my losses to get out of it...and spend hundreds more on another gun that still doesn't match my expectations. Too much math. Too much...
I just wanted to thank the future purchaser of this rifle for allowing me to take a young buck with it offhand today at 86 yards using 75 grains of Goex FFG2 behind a .530 round ball wrapped in .015 greased patch.
Because this rifle is new, and unfired, I can't supply any load data. My wife drives tacks with her .45 caliber longrifle, and she shoots 46 grains of Goex 3F behind a .430 ball wrapped in a thin .010 greased patch. Loads easy. Shoots well. I'd think a comparable load would be a good starting...
I'm an inch high at 50 yards, which allows me to cut the X by holding at the base of the 10 ring. I'm 3" low at 100 yards. The doe I took with it last season, was about 65 yards away, and I held on her heart and hit point of aim.
I purchased a rifle last spring with a coned barrel, and wasn't able to achieve acceptable accuracy. I cut the barrel and stock back 2" to clear the coning and the groups immediately improved as indicated by the targets below.
The hole that appears in the frizzen screw is for insertion of a hardened steel rod to loosen and tighten the flint jaws. I don't like to carry a screwdriver in my hunting bag, and frankly don't like to change a flint with a screw driver while the lock is attached to the gun. The hole allows me...
The length of pull is 13 3/4" with a 43 1/4" swamped octagon barrel with a twist 1/66. I've always believed everyone can afford a nice rifle. They might not be able to afford a car, or expensive home, but what's a ride or address compared to a nice rifle?
Here's your chance to purchase a .54 caliber longrifle, beautifully finished from a Jim Kibler kit by the very talented and well known gunmaker Tim Williams
Tim's work is in such high demand he's no longer accepting orders. I picked this rifle up from him in 2018 at Dixon's Gunmaker's Fair and...
Thank you very much. As I recall, it was a Type C fusil that pointed very well and had an interesting demonic thumbpiece. Spoke birdshot and roundball fluently.