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42 Inch Barrel, 50 Caliber
Built from a collection of parts and a LOT of wood work. Tiger maple, 50 caliber Colrain barrel. If the rain holds off tomorrow I'll give a try....probably 80gn of FFG Goex!
  
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Nice! I need to get out and shoot my smoke stick....
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is it bedded?
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Man that's a LONG stick of wood. Nice! Good luck with the test fire, don't shoot yer eye out kid.
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That is a very pretty target gun! Let us know how accurate it is!
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Cool!
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50 to 70 grains o double F ought to do er jis rite...
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wid dat gun you ought to be able to cut the first letter of yer las name in the size of a half dollar at 220 yards..
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Where does the magazine go?
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Excellent work.
Here is my 50 cailber with a 36 inch barrel  
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Jeez that puppy is long! Reloading it will be a lot of fun! Cleaning it even more!
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whose "broad side of the barn" are you going to shoot that thing at?
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Here's mine. .50 caliber flintlock, cherry stock. Built it from a Dixie Gun Works kit when I was about 19. While I haven't hunted with it much over the years, it's still taken a handful of Washington mulies. The hunting load is 90 grains of FFFg under a .490" dia ball with .015" pillow ticking patches lubed with Wonder Lube. Match load drops to 70 grains, everything else the same. It's amazing how effective that little round ball can be on even big deer; if you hit them where you need to, it kills them about as dead as anything else.
 
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Very nice Jeff! You do not see many flint-locks these days, most people switch over to the cap-lock!
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Damn you Americans.
 Seriously nice... and I bet you have to be disciplined to fire that thing.
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19 years and 17k posts...
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Very cool!!!
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Wow Tabs that thing is awesome
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