It just followed me home!

[pulaskius]

Your rifle looks fantastic ... recently I visited a Cabelas store and saw an Austin and Halleck for the first time and I was a bit shocked at the poor fit and finish on that one ... probably just one bad one out of many many good ones but it was the only one in the store so I couldn't compare it to other Austin and Halleck rifles that day.

That experience made me gun shy about buying one sight unseen ie an internet auction or something ... congrats on the beauty you got there

 

[wilded]

I was told the ones made when the company was going out of business had terrible fitting of wood to metal. I was also told those made in Missouri were better than the Utah models. This one seems pretty good but not like a custom. The stock looks like a fine piece of expensive furniture and the browning is very consistent. The triggers feel about like most production double triggers. For the money it will should teach me to shoot flinters and then maybe I can get the custom .40 flinter I really want.

 

[pulaskius]

I was told the ones made when the company was going out of business had terrible fitting of wood to metal. I was also told those made in Missouri were better than the Utah models. This one seems pretty good but not like a custom. The stock looks like a fine piece of expensive furniture and the browning is very consistent. The triggers feel about like most production double triggers. For the money it will should teach me to shoot flinters and then maybe I can get the custom .40 flinter I really want.

It looks great I would be proud to own it ... the one I saw seemed to me like it was a returned item ... it just had that "not exactly new" look to it.

 

If you are anything like me, you will start selling off your percussions. Once bit by the flint bug, you are hooked for life :surrender:

Seriously, you will really enjoy shooting flintlocks. I do not understand the mystique -- I came to it late in life -- but it is definitely there.

 

[MSW]

great looking rifle!

40Flint and MuleBrain have good advice.

When shooting flint, remember that patience is, indeed, a virtue. (and take close notes: there will be a test, the results of which will go on your permanent record.)

go slow, have fun, and make good smoke!