Greg Blackburn
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Here is what I would get.
www.trackofthewolf.com has about everything you'd need.....but MidwayUSA, etc. will have other things also.
1). Buy yourself some balls and patches, you'll mostly practice with balls and they'll kill most everything you'll hunt anyway.
2). Hornady Great Plains Bullets are quite effective in .50 and are still made. You can cast your own later if you want, plenty to choose from bullet-wise, but I like Hornady GPB.
3). Get a ball stater. This is what you'll use to get the projectile, be it patched round ball or bullet into the barrel the first few inches.
4). You may want to replace your wooden ramrod (if it came with wood) with a carbon fiber one.....less likely to break it.
5). Get another carbon fiber rod for cleaning.
6). Cleaning jag.....you should get a "worm" which removes patches although I never had one and never needed one. However, when I do need one I won't have it.
7). Capper....since you have percussion, a "capper" is nice to cap that nipple. Mine is from Thompson Center.
8). Others have suggested powder measures and flasks, yes get those.
9). I never used a bore brush.
10). For cleaning.....remove the barrel from the stock and get a bucket. Put in the hottest water you can stand. Use a cleaning patch and your CARBON FIBER ROD (not your wooden rod, it will warp) and put the breach end into the water. Put a patch onto the rod with cleaning jag affixed and turn that thing into the "heaviest water gun" ever. This is how I clean my rifle.
I'd start with some soap in the water, do that with nipple affixed, then remove nipple and do without. Later, dump out the water, replace with clean (no soap) water and do it again.
Finally, rinse it out, and dry the bore with dry patches.
Then set it down on a towel and heat it up with a blow dryer....do same with the nipple and drum screw (if you have one). This vaporizes and gets out any remaining water.
For years I kept my barrel soaking in oil in a plastic bag separate from the stock but later I used Thompson Center Bore Butter and wiped it down inside and out (all blued metal) with that. Seemed to work fine keeping rust at bay.
Before you shoot, repeat process with hot (no soap) water and dry again.
For shooting I swabbed my barrel between shots....one or two wet patches then a couple of dry patches. I would shoot for hours at the range doing this.
You are about to embark on a great hobby.....one that will teach you a great many things, like "patience."
www.trackofthewolf.com has about everything you'd need.....but MidwayUSA, etc. will have other things also.
1). Buy yourself some balls and patches, you'll mostly practice with balls and they'll kill most everything you'll hunt anyway.
2). Hornady Great Plains Bullets are quite effective in .50 and are still made. You can cast your own later if you want, plenty to choose from bullet-wise, but I like Hornady GPB.
3). Get a ball stater. This is what you'll use to get the projectile, be it patched round ball or bullet into the barrel the first few inches.
4). You may want to replace your wooden ramrod (if it came with wood) with a carbon fiber one.....less likely to break it.
5). Get another carbon fiber rod for cleaning.
6). Cleaning jag.....you should get a "worm" which removes patches although I never had one and never needed one. However, when I do need one I won't have it.
7). Capper....since you have percussion, a "capper" is nice to cap that nipple. Mine is from Thompson Center.
8). Others have suggested powder measures and flasks, yes get those.
9). I never used a bore brush.
10). For cleaning.....remove the barrel from the stock and get a bucket. Put in the hottest water you can stand. Use a cleaning patch and your CARBON FIBER ROD (not your wooden rod, it will warp) and put the breach end into the water. Put a patch onto the rod with cleaning jag affixed and turn that thing into the "heaviest water gun" ever. This is how I clean my rifle.
I'd start with some soap in the water, do that with nipple affixed, then remove nipple and do without. Later, dump out the water, replace with clean (no soap) water and do it again.
Finally, rinse it out, and dry the bore with dry patches.
Then set it down on a towel and heat it up with a blow dryer....do same with the nipple and drum screw (if you have one). This vaporizes and gets out any remaining water.
For years I kept my barrel soaking in oil in a plastic bag separate from the stock but later I used Thompson Center Bore Butter and wiped it down inside and out (all blued metal) with that. Seemed to work fine keeping rust at bay.
Before you shoot, repeat process with hot (no soap) water and dry again.
For shooting I swabbed my barrel between shots....one or two wet patches then a couple of dry patches. I would shoot for hours at the range doing this.
You are about to embark on a great hobby.....one that will teach you a great many things, like "patience."
