Most accurate flintlock rifle you own

[Eric Krewson]

What started me building was the gun my friend gave me with a Bill Large barrel and a Roller lock that had been made in the early 70s, it will shoot cloverleafs all day long with any load.

I built a Beck type rifle with a Rice barrel; it is very accurate but fussy about what you put in it.

Next, I built a TN rifle with a GM barrel, another rifle that shoots cloverleafs no matter what load I stuff down it.

Lastly, I made an Issaac Haines with a Hoyt rebored barrel, it was a poor shooter until I finally found out what it liked, like the Rice barrel mentioned above, it is really fussy about what it likes but a tack driver with the right load.

I have to give the overall nod to the rifle with the Bill Large barrel and Roller lock.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Only have one, home built. At 100 yards I hit the 1 inch rebar target on the trail walk.
Right thru the 6 inch hole in a bear at 150 yards.
Good enough for me.

 

[Snydly]

Southern Poor boy by TVM. Absolute tack driver. .36 caliber with deluxe curly maple(I know it should have been plain...couldn't help myself).

 

[Muddly]

My .50 caliber T/C Renegade. She wears a T/C aperture sight and, at 50 yards, hangs right around an inch for 3 shots.
Shot a 5/8ths group 'tuther day.
Will be doing 100 yard work soon Had a couple custom flinters, but this silly Renegade shoots rings around 'em

 

[Sidney Smith]

My .32 caliber that I piecemeal built from various parts. I can keep 5 shots in a ping-pong ball at 25 yards. I'm sure the gun is capable of better than I can give it.

 

[FlinterNick]

1817 common rifle, 7 groove rifling, .54 caliber.

 

[garypl]

.40 flintlock with Douglas barrel and large Siler lock - been shooting it for @42 years now and it has won me a lot of contests in the past. Now that my vision is not so good I don’t shoot it much - been playing with new Kibler toys

 

[akroguy]

I scored a tie for first honors at our club Woodswalk a couple weeks ago using my Pecatonica build Verner style .45 flintlock. Split a ball on an axe head at twenty yards (and breaking both clays on either side) and followed that by hitting the dinner triangle at the same distance. Missed two targets in all but it was fun. That rifle was out preforming me!

MAN, what a beautiful rifle! Splitting a .45 ain't easy. I've never tried it and doubt I could even do it with the ball in a vice and a hacksaw in my hand.

 

[Hermit Tim]

I scored a tie for first honors at our club Woodswalk a couple weeks ago using my Pecatonica build Verner style .45 flintlock. Split a ball on an axe head at twenty yards (and breaking both clays on either side) and followed that by hitting the dinner triangle at the same distance. Missed two targets in all but it was fun. That rifle was out preforming me!

Tis quite a beautiful rifle.

 

[SDSmlf]

Have 32 caliber Pedersoli that stays well under an inch at squirrel busting range, 25 yards or so with 1-1/2 buck over 12-15 grains of 3F or 4F Swiss. I also have a Hoyt 58 caliber radius bottom 1-60 barrel that will shoot consistently shoot better than I can see, but when the sights and I and I are on the same page really shoots outstanding.

Here is a 100 yard ‘sight-in’ target (5-1/2” bull) for new sights I walked in on a flintlock 26” barrel (already had the load figured out). It was one of those good days. Mr Hoyt’s barrels are more accurate than me any day. Disregard the ‘little’ holes on the target. Shot off of my elbows on a bench with no rest for the gun. I know I can not shoot regularly any better than this with iron sights. Difficult enough to shoot this well every so often when all conditions are perfect.

 

[Art Caputo]

While I have a few flintlocks that I would consider to be superbly accurate, I would have to give top spot to my 58 cal Kibler Colonial rifle. The performance is quite a consistent MOA to 100 yards with easy loading and minimal swabbing. On a windless day I have been able to ring a 10” gong with high consistency at 200 yards even with its primitive sights.

 

[Dphar1950]

4.08” string measure 10 shots 60 yards plank rest. McLemore gain twist 50 cal. Match at Cody Wyoming a few years ago and there is always a “breeze” on the Eastern slope and of course nut behind the butt errors. I have several rifles that shoot really well but this is the only dedicated match rifle. Styled after the rev-war era Dickert. I have never shot it past 60 yards that I recall. Matches ended 5-8 years ago. 100 gr of FFF Swiss, .500 RB, WS oil patch lube 5 or 7 to 1 then air dried. Water is just a carrier. Wiped, damp patch both sides dry patch both sides. Dale Johnson model Siler, shop made breech plug and vent liner. Jim would not tell us the rifling twist or the gain.

 

[hanshi]

A TVM Virginia was in the running for first place but I let it get away from me. A traditions "Crockett" .32 was so accurate that I ended up using it as the standard for accuracy when comparing any other rifle. While both these rifles ran away from home I have this TVM .36 SMR that does as well as anything I've ever owned.
The .50 Va.

The Crockett.

 

[Dphar1950]

ALR site April match. First shot was almost a pinwheel then I put the next one out

 

[Jaegermeister]

I only have one, my .61 cal Jaeger. I’m no marksman but throwing a bowling ball sized piece of lead downrange is bound to clip something.

 

[roundballman]

I have an old 45 caliber Yorktown built by Brad Emig at Cabin Creek. Large Siler lock, throws a shower of sparks and not fussy about the load you use.

 

[wattlebuster]

This one. A 62 cal that happens to be my newest. Target is 50 yards while propped solid against a tree. 5 shot group

 

[Stumpkiller]

I have one flintlock rifle and one flintlock smoothbore. The rifle is a Jon Donelson Lehigh with L.C. Rice 44" barrel in .54. It's suitaby accurate.

25 & 50 yards elbows on knees.

50 & 85 yards offhand.

 

[Uncle Miltie]

This .32 caliber Soddy built in 1972 is pretty accurate.

 

[rickpa]

I have 2 about equal . In 1977 I built a Southern poor boy with a Douglas 13/16 .45 barrel I cut to 36", an L&R English lock, walnut stock I bought from Freddie Harrison at Friendship and iron mounts. I've taken more deer with it than I have with a modern bolt gun and when younger did well in shoots. It's last win was in 2017 when I won a ham at our Easter shoot. The other one is the last gun I finished in 2021. I bought a Colerain 38" B weight .50 round bottom rifling from Pecatonica and had them inlet the barrel and ramrod in a grade 3 maple stock. I did the lock inlet myself using a Chambers late Ketland lock. It's styled after late VA. rifles with a modest amount of carving. At 75 with cancer I haven't had it hunting and my eyes aren't too good either but it is accurate. These 2 do the job better than I can anymore.