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Ran a box and half of .54s thru the woodsrunner today, 250ish rounds total so far. Finished and sighted it in a couple of days ago, managed to line up two pigs that afternoon.
Stock fits me good, its an easy to put together kit, everything just works. Nice to have a flinter with a flat breachface and a touchhole liner flush with the inside of the barrel. Nothing for fowling to grow on. Burned Goex, Swiss and Schutzen. Ran all of those balls both days with wet patches without swabbing, even with an hour break for lunch. Had to pick the touchhole once, made all those shots on three flints with some left over. Sweet.
 

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Ran a box and half of .54s thru the woodsrunner today, 250ish rounds total so far. Finished and sighted it in a couple of days ago, managed to line up two pigs that afternoon.
Stock fits me good, its an easy to put together kit, everything just works. Nice to have a flinter with a flat breachface and a touchhole liner flush with the inside of the barrel. Nothing for fowling to grow on. Burned Goex, Swiss and Schutzen. Ran all of those balls both days with wet patches without swabbing, even with an hour break for lunch. Had to pick the touchhole once, made all those shots on three flints with some left over. Sweet.
Looks great, well done on the rifle. I love the bright steel.
 
Ran a box and half of .54s thru the woodsrunner today, 250ish rounds total so far. Finished and sighted it in a couple of days ago, managed to line up two pigs that afternoon.
Stock fits me good, its an easy to put together kit, everything just works. Nice to have a flinter with a flat breachface and a touchhole liner flush with the inside of the barrel. Nothing for fowling to grow on. Burned Goex, Swiss and Schutzen. Ran all of those balls both days with wet patches without swabbing, even with an hour break for lunch. Had to pick the touchhole once, made all those shots on three flints with some left over. Sweet.
Well done on your Woodsrunner. And the tasty looking pigs too!
 
My Parker 7 “ tall sight arrived . EBay uk £125. around 1911. It’s off an unmentisble and back position , ie fits by butt plate. I’ll change all that when I can get a ml target rifle. I hesitated but thought it a good buy. We shall see


Hi Gordon. Many thanks for purchasing the Match Rifle back position sight. I hope you like it. It came from the estate of Alistair and Malcolm Brown. Both shot Match Rifle for Scotland in the Elcho. Alistair the father also shot in the Commonwealth Games in Target Rifle. Alistair shot through the 1950-70s and Malcolm into the 1980's.
I friend who knows these things is of the opinion the sight was probably made by Fraser's in Scotland around 1911 as he has seen advertisements from the period. As indicated it has a few old rust marks where it was not oiled before storage, but hopefully these do not detract from the item.
Regards Nick. PS I will post today or Friday on 24 hour signed for because of the value.



I collected 24 rifles but my ladder sight only goes with one. A bit of fun. A swiss action set triggers 1885 , modern stock by others a heavy barrel 1/24 twist , muzzle loading with primers in martini action , rifled .500 bore, I think it’s ok for the forum

EBay mould just arrived on doorstep
 

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It’s a cold, wet, windy day here in East Tennessee so I took the Kentucky rifle (my favorite muzzleloader) up on the mountain and shot some cardboard. Off hand at 50 yards.
50 grains of Wano 3f
.490 home cast lead round ball
spit lubed cotton patch
CCI #11

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Then at 75 yards, off hand
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Wasn’t happy with the plastic looking coating on my S&B and two Remingtons so I stripped the factory junk off. The grips looked black after stripping them so I used some wood bleach to pop the grain detail and worked like a charm. The gorgeous wood grain is now visible with a couple of coats of Danish oil.

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Took delivery of another Kibler kit. The "above grade" maple is impressive. I tried to get a couple pics with some water on the wood. The curl is consistent from end to end. Once again, Kibler products show up better than expected.
 

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Took delivery of another Kibler kit. The "above grade" maple is impressive. I tried to get a couple pics with some water on the wood. The curl is consistent from end to end. Once again, Kibler products show up better than expected.
Is that one of the special ones he emailed about a short time ago? Very nice
 
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