In my old age I'm not remembering well, but at least I remember that I'm not remembering so there is still hope. Your're right. The breech on the Hall's is straight down.
Nothing fancy trying to seal the breech. I got real lucky yesterday evening, and the third video I picked up had written on the box "shooting Hall rifle". Right next to it was a 1985 rondy video that I took, and I remembered that there was a flintlock Hall in it. So it took me longer to snap the photos off the video than it did to find the tapes and I sure figured that it wasn't going to be that easy. Because this thread started when cjmouser was wanting to find out about rifles available mid 1800's I want to let it be known that I'm going to start two new threads. One for the flint Hall, and one for a precussion Hall, so if further information on that style rifle is desired, one will be under flintlock, and one under percussion. Just a side note, I see that the Track of the Wolf's Hall's is priced at just under 4 grand. In 1985 I could have bought an original percussion for $350 and the flinter in the photo on the new thread was priced at $650. Bummer, why didn't I buy them both. Probably because I didn't have the money, but then again, they aren't neat looking, in fact ugly, and they didn't fit my collection and any number of things. I should have bought the precussion at least, and I've been kicking myself ever sense.
Nothing fancy trying to seal the breech. I got real lucky yesterday evening, and the third video I picked up had written on the box "shooting Hall rifle". Right next to it was a 1985 rondy video that I took, and I remembered that there was a flintlock Hall in it. So it took me longer to snap the photos off the video than it did to find the tapes and I sure figured that it wasn't going to be that easy. Because this thread started when cjmouser was wanting to find out about rifles available mid 1800's I want to let it be known that I'm going to start two new threads. One for the flint Hall, and one for a precussion Hall, so if further information on that style rifle is desired, one will be under flintlock, and one under percussion. Just a side note, I see that the Track of the Wolf's Hall's is priced at just under 4 grand. In 1985 I could have bought an original percussion for $350 and the flinter in the photo on the new thread was priced at $650. Bummer, why didn't I buy them both. Probably because I didn't have the money, but then again, they aren't neat looking, in fact ugly, and they didn't fit my collection and any number of things. I should have bought the precussion at least, and I've been kicking myself ever sense.
