The big brown box showed up Friday and she's already filed and dialed! :thumbsup:
First off I apologize that the post is a little picture heavy but I can't help but show her off a bit....plus the pics on TVM's site are a little lacking and I haven't seen many decent ones of a nicely built Lancaster.
This is their "Early" Lancaster pattern and they built it around the parts and carving that I wanted and to fit me properly.
Main Components:
-.54 "C" weight Rice 44" "Dickert/ Lancaster" Heritage swamped barrel. (Radius groove rifling)
- Chambers "Golden Age" lock
- Davis triggers
- SP Maple
It's obviously not a copy of any particular existing or known "Lancaster" rifle but I think a good representation of that style.
As good as I think it looks, it SHOOTS twice as good. :shocked2: Right out of the box I started at 25 yards, cut a notch and figured what the heck lets start with a potential hunting load.
So I started at a pretty hot, 90grs of 3F , .530 ball and a patch of 40# cotton drill lubed with Hoppes 9+.
First shot was the expected 8" low or so based upon the height of that front blade, and the filing began.......when I was done filing shot after shot ,you could draw a straight line from the first shot to the center of the bullseye. It never required even the slightest windage adjustment.
Off to 50yds for the fine tuning and it was pounding out the middle of the middle of the 3" bull with a 6 o'clock hold in no time. PERFECT.
The real shocker was 100 yards! using those little 3" stick on orange dots and a center hold it put the first 4 ON THE DOT. The last 3 shots of that group were a perfect triangle low in the bull measuring a hair over 1 INCH center to center........1 INCH!? :shocked2:
I have good scoped cartridge guns that can't do that! LOL
Of course they weren't ALL quite that tight at 100 but they were all either touching or flirting with the 3" bull. INCREDIBLE and quite simply as good as I will EVER physically shoot iron sights at that range.
Sighting in was to put it mildly...a BREEZE, and I probably got lucky that it loved the load right out of the gate. (It also shot the 40# drill with Mink Oil to the exact same POI)
So to finish the sighting in process, I marked the barrel well with masking tape and alignment marks, tapped out the front sight to grind it's final profile and also the base to match the barrel flats and reinstalled. (The final sight profile is smaller and nicer than what you see in the pics before I finished)
I reconfirmed it was still dead on and good to go.
All told I put 70 rounds through her this weekend and boy it sure is fun when it goes like that!
So without further inflicted boredom here are the pics.
I also had to add that the actual experience that I had with Toni and Matt and TVM was second to none.....I'm shortchanging Toni with the description but to sum it up it was a pleasure.
First off I apologize that the post is a little picture heavy but I can't help but show her off a bit....plus the pics on TVM's site are a little lacking and I haven't seen many decent ones of a nicely built Lancaster.
This is their "Early" Lancaster pattern and they built it around the parts and carving that I wanted and to fit me properly.
Main Components:
-.54 "C" weight Rice 44" "Dickert/ Lancaster" Heritage swamped barrel. (Radius groove rifling)
- Chambers "Golden Age" lock
- Davis triggers
- SP Maple
It's obviously not a copy of any particular existing or known "Lancaster" rifle but I think a good representation of that style.
As good as I think it looks, it SHOOTS twice as good. :shocked2: Right out of the box I started at 25 yards, cut a notch and figured what the heck lets start with a potential hunting load.
So I started at a pretty hot, 90grs of 3F , .530 ball and a patch of 40# cotton drill lubed with Hoppes 9+.
First shot was the expected 8" low or so based upon the height of that front blade, and the filing began.......when I was done filing shot after shot ,you could draw a straight line from the first shot to the center of the bullseye. It never required even the slightest windage adjustment.
Off to 50yds for the fine tuning and it was pounding out the middle of the middle of the 3" bull with a 6 o'clock hold in no time. PERFECT.
The real shocker was 100 yards! using those little 3" stick on orange dots and a center hold it put the first 4 ON THE DOT. The last 3 shots of that group were a perfect triangle low in the bull measuring a hair over 1 INCH center to center........1 INCH!? :shocked2:
I have good scoped cartridge guns that can't do that! LOL
Of course they weren't ALL quite that tight at 100 but they were all either touching or flirting with the 3" bull. INCREDIBLE and quite simply as good as I will EVER physically shoot iron sights at that range.
Sighting in was to put it mildly...a BREEZE, and I probably got lucky that it loved the load right out of the gate. (It also shot the 40# drill with Mink Oil to the exact same POI)
So to finish the sighting in process, I marked the barrel well with masking tape and alignment marks, tapped out the front sight to grind it's final profile and also the base to match the barrel flats and reinstalled. (The final sight profile is smaller and nicer than what you see in the pics before I finished)
I reconfirmed it was still dead on and good to go.
All told I put 70 rounds through her this weekend and boy it sure is fun when it goes like that!
So without further inflicted boredom here are the pics.
I also had to add that the actual experience that I had with Toni and Matt and TVM was second to none.....I'm shortchanging Toni with the description but to sum it up it was a pleasure.
