.45cal Late Lancaster on the way.....(sort of)

[Stumpkiller]

Play nice, guys.

Though I do ask you to look in the upper left corner to the byline "Keeping Tradition Alive" which is our mission statement here and note the lack of words like "innovation" or "improvement" in that simple guide.

Just please remember we each keep differing amounts of tradition alive at any given time. :hatsoff:

 

[Zonie]

Roundball:

We all have heard you championing the cause of the patent breech many times but I must ask:

As all of your 14,000 round experience seems to be with patent breeched guns, how can you begin to know anything at all about guns which use a simple side vent?

You've never walked a yard in the moccasins of the thousands of people who happily shoot non-patent breeched guns and yet you refuse to even give them a try?

IMO, until you have shot 1000+ rounds using a non-patent breech flintlock you are in no position to give lectures to those of us who have.

Have a good one!

 

[tg]

That is just to logical Zonie, and I was playing nice you should have heard what I was thinking :rotf: I must find another lead box now as I do not want to see posts that might cause me to suggest a more traditional path, I do not want to stand in the way of ML progress...bye RB

 

[rr11]

Roundball, Good luck it "only" took 9 months for my rifle but I felt like it was 3 years. Very good people to do business with. Also a good high quality rifle. :thumbsup:

 

[roundball]

Roundball, Good luck it "only" took 9 months for my rifle but I felt like it was 3 years. Very good people to do business with. Also a good high quality rifle. :thumbsup:

They do a great job for sure...and a significant characteristic of Matt and TVM in general is that they never get all wrapped up in themselves.
They always maintain an awareness of who the most important part of the formula is...the customer...and in addition to the quality of Matt's work, that customer attitude is what guarantees getting them repeat business.

 

[rr11]

Have to agree with you on repreat busness. They have built me a pistol and a Early Virginia rifle. Am saving up now for a southern .36 for tree rats.

 

[rudy parnell]

Hey Roundball,

While looking over the spec's of your newly ordered gun.......I simply realize that I have no idea ..."What are round bottom grooves" ? I could perhaps make a joke out of this observation....but the joke would be on me. What gives with the grooves is that inside the barrel ?
Please elaborate. Thanks. Good Hunt Ting !

 

[roundball]

Instead of a bore having .012" deep square bottom grooves like I've normally had over the years, I first tried a so called 'round bottom groove' barrel in a Rice .58cal three years ago.

They are .016" deep and instead of grooves with a sharp 90* design they are slightly radiused (rounded). They're advertised as being much easier to clean with a simple wipe of a patch, easier to seat a tignt fitting PRB, etc, and I found that to be the case...as a result, after that first one, every rifle I've gotten since I've specified round bottom grooves.

 

[Leatherbark]

Well now you'll have that perfect offhand rifle. Find a local club and enter some matches and offhand shooting will become second nature.

Bob

 

[roundball]

Well now you'll have that perfect offhand rifle. Find a local club and enter some matches and offhand shooting will become second nature.
Bob

It would be a good one for that...after this year's hunting seasons are over I'll start practicing offhand with a nice .50cal Dickert I have...use up the supply of .490"s as I'll probably sell it after the .45 gets here in the spring.

 

[bob4st]

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