Shooting ole sparkie.

[Kurt]

Kurt I'd love to see more pics of your rifle. Love the southern mountain rifles. I've been considering building myself a Bean style rifle.

Steve made all the furniture for this rifle and it looks like it it was made back in 1820 the look I wanted for this rifle.
I will take some pictures and get them posted for you.
I have build some rifles in the past and still working on one Hawken I started in the 80's the barrel still needs browning, sort pf hoped it would do it on its own but the darn thing still looks like I put it in the wood 30 some years ago
Right now I'm getting a barrel and lock for a 40. I still have a fine sugar maple plank left over from the Hawken. When It warms up wood chips will be flying again

I will see if I can find some balls I shot in the pile and get them posted also. supposed to warm up in the morning.

Kurt

[Kurt]

Kurt I'd love to see more pics of your rifle. Love the southern mountain rifles. I've been considering building myself a Bean style rifle.

Here you go. Nasty day today!!
The barrel is a 44" Rice swamped in 54 cal.
I think Steve made this to look like an original as close as possible short of banged up wood. The iron to iron mating he used bronz rivits and solder. The lock is a classic ketland lock. Not sure how he aged the metal sort of looks like he might have used Naval Jelly ??

[Old Jim]

Nice, Kurt.

When I first read the title, I had visions of you puttin' a slug in the neighbor's tom-cat !

[Kurt]

HI Jim, well that's been done before

[J.B.]

I had visions of you puttin' a slug in the neighbor's tom-cat !

"So... that's a bad thing.. right ? "

[Wislnwings]

Thanks for the additional pics. Beautiful rifle. I've got an L & R Durs Egg lock sitting here on the desk that wants to become a Southern Mountain rifle. One of these days I'm going to have to just sit down and get her started.......maybe after deer season closes.

[Kurt]

I was digging through my box and found a L&R lock and trigger after posting those pictures and I found enough parts for a late Hawken screws and all minus the barrel.

I like the Durs Egg lock. I think the pan design is a better one than the lock on mine but mine does cover the prime well and the notched jaws hold the flint better than the smooth once on mine.

Kurt

[Kurt]

The more I shoot this rifle the better it shoots.
It has warmed up here to 31 his morning but winds where a full left factor @ 30 mph and it didn't take long to get the fingers cold.

I went out and set up a box on the snow bank 50 yards and shot 6 rounds at the X. The first round from a clean oiled bore went just to the right and the following 5 shots went 2.5" high. Yes there are 5 shots in that hole 1/2"CtoC hole I have it marked O to O but it is C to C
The load was 80 gr of the Olde Eynsfort 2 f with 4 f prim and a .021" thick Teflon lubed patch and a .530 cast ball tumbled in the tumbler to work down the cut sprue. They look like a swaged ball when this done.
The patches are a little tight and they took some persuading get them seated. I will find out what they look like when the snow melts and they didn't get smashed by the following ball.
I used the bench with sand bags this morning, not off hand.

Kurt

[Wislnwings]

Looks like some good shooting right there.

[rhbrink]

That's some great shooting! But don't you know that a square patch won't shoot? If you were to shoot round patches cut off at the muzzle you could cut that group in half?

RB