I posted the rifle elsewhere after finishing it around the Holidays. For various reasons, I didn't get to shoot it other than 3 test rounds. But yesterday I took it out for a pleasant walk in the rolling hills near my home in southern AZ. It was warm, bright, and calm. Perfect winter weather.
I was very impressed with the Kibler lock. It fires fast and reliably. No hang fires or flash in the pans. After about 5 clean shots, I decided to forego picking the vent to see if that caused some. It did not, every shot fired immediately. I picked up a feather and used that in the vent the last few rounds. This is much better than my other flintlock, which for some reason is more picky.
Just shooting offhand at about 35 yds, but it seems my windage "eyeballed" sights were installed pretty straight to the bore. As expected, shooting low, I marked my aim points above the shots with a red "X". Will need to file the sight down when I get an accurate load. This was 43 grains of FFF Goex (old), sometimes used in the pan too, sometimes I used 4F. Used .389 balls and a thin .018 patch of pillow ticking, tried mink oil lube. That allowed it to be loaded moderately easily. Didn't retrieve any patches...
I'm very happy with my first rifle build, and with the Kibler excellent customer service. They helped me out a couple times, even tuning a lock for me.
