Sparking Spoons

[tabs]

Long after you all have shot off all your ammo shooting at Zombies..I will still be picking off marauders and other assorted villains. I kin shoot the eye out of a nat at 200 yards...

[flatbutt]

oh man! I'm droolin'!

[tabs]

They are all contemporary.

From the top:

1. Don Henry Brown. an English style Gibbs LR Percussion in 451..a 1000 yd Creedmore Match. completed in late 2008

2. GL Jones. a Lancaster, PA LR in 40 cal, wt wood patch box 1984

3. Jerry Kirklin, Lancaster in 45 cal, 1975

4. Leroy Fleenor TN LR in 50 cal circa 1970's

5. GL Jones Lancaster in 54 cal 1985

6 GL Jones Swivel Breech in 45 caliber circa 1989

7 Don Kammerer of Kendallville In Jagger in 58 cal circa 1990's

[Mericet]

I think I should stop looking at these threads. I like the top one best.

[gtc]

How are you supposed to mount an EOTech holosight to one of those?

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by tabs

I kin shoot the eye out of a nat at 200 yards...

When the gnats start to take over the world I know who to call now.

[kaisen]

Originally Posted by Rick V

When the gnats start to take over the world I know who to call now.

They already have!

[Rick V]

Then Tabs needs to step up.

[Henry Schmidt]

I found one hiding in the vault:

[ODDJOB UNO]

what the hell happens if theres (1) BILL-YON GNATS all attacking at the same time!



where the hell is the "rapid fire re-loader kit" from ACME mfg!

[vash]

i say BS on the 200 yard shot. unless you are channeling davy crockett.

i hope the zombie invasion doesnt happen during a rainstorm..i'll leave myself one round to put into my own head to prevent my last days spent as an "undead".

cool collection tabby. i love em!

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by vash

i say BS on the 200 yard shot. unless you are channeling davy crockett.

i hope the zombie invasion doesnt happen during a rainstorm..i'll leave myself one round to put into my own head to prevent my last days spent as an "undead".

cool collection tabby. i love em!

no poo there.................



it was a dark rainy windy night...............and TABS was on a mission. and the last thing EVERYONE said to TABS..................."WAS KEEP YER POWDER DRY!"

[tabs]

Originally Posted by vash

i say BS on the 200 yard shot. unless you are channeling davy crockett.

i hope the zombie invasion doesnt happen during a rainstorm..i'll leave myself one round to put into my own head to prevent my last days spent as an "undead".

cool collection tabby. i love em!

The rifle is good enough, but I am not, as I need a 33 round clip to hit the target once.

[tabs]

Very nice Henry...didja ever shoot it?

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by vash

i say BS on the 200 yard shot. unless you are channeling davy crockett.

i hope the zombie invasion doesnt happen during a rainstorm..i'll leave myself one round to put into my own head to prevent my last days spent as an "undead".

cool collection tabby. i love em!

Maybe not the eye of a gnat at 200 yards, but my flintlock Tennessee Mountain Rifle will stay on a standard clay bird all day long at that range. My standard load is 100 grains of Goex FFg under a .495" diameter round ball with a .015" thick pillow ticking patch lubed with T/C Natural Lube 1000+. That's one hell of a tight patch and ball combination, and requires swabbing the bore every shot, but it's as accurate as many modern center fire rifles. Going with a .490" diameter ball and a .012" patch eases loading considerably, and it's still an honest two minute of angle rifle.

Very cool rifles, tabby. You too, Henry.

Built from a kit when I was about 19 years old, this rifle has accounted for a number of deer since:

[Mericet]

Very nice Jeff, I think I should put one of those on my to build list.

[sca037]

I only have one, but it's an original 1863 U.S. Springfield caplock conversion.
It's been in the family for a while and is in very shootable condition, but I've never tried it........

Brian

[Jeff Higgins]

Cool musket, Brian. It doesn't look like any kind of conversion, however. '63's were originally caplock, and it doesn't look like a Trapdoor conversion. It's still a .58 caliber front-stuffer, isn't it?

[Drdogface]

Yes, looks all original to me. We did shoot these when I was in High School as a part of a re-enactment group. There were not repro's at the time. I'd love to own a nice original

[cbush]

Speaking of 1863 Springfields- I have one that seems to have a different stock design. Any ideas what it is? Also I am missing the ramrod for it. Suggestions on where to find one?

Thanks-