Author Topic: Another unlucky ruffy  (Read 2180 times)

northmn

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Another unlucky ruffy
« on: October 19, 2010, 01:50:35 AM »


Second one I got this year with a flintlock.  Would like to embellish a story, but basically it was a younger stupid one I got off of my own place and ground swatted.  The gun is my 20 bore smooth rifle which is in progress for the build.  Want to put a wood patch box on it and do a little carving.  The stock is very plain walnut.  I had to cut it out of a plank with a chain saw just to rough cut it on the band saw.  That was too many years ago.  While I rarely name a gun this one is going to be old slabsides as I started it a couple of years ago when I got back into ML and messed up a bit on the web thickness.  Still works for me.  75 grains of 2f and a powder measure set at 80 gr for shot.  My 12 bore still has some choke and could use a little more relief maybe.  This one is definitely cylinder bore.  Still is fun to get game with a flintlock.

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Re: Another unlucky ruffy
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2010, 10:38:16 PM »
Congrats. I cant see the smokepole very good but it looks pretty good to me. :)
Nothing beats the feel of a handmade southern iron mounted flintlock on a cold frosty morning