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Originally posted by tabs
I've had an interest in MLR and BPC rifles going back more than 25 years....here is my latest addition to the collection
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I know how you feel. I have been actively competing with BPCR's since long before the big silhouette boom of the last ten years. Before that I shot a lot of muzzle loader matches, and have always hunted with them. It has been very difficult to find any "hunting grade" front stuffers in the larger bores with suitable round ball twists. While I dearly love the ornate Lancaster style rifles, I have found them to be better target and plinking than hunting arms. I have hunted extensively with a "poor boy" Southern Appalachian long rifle and have found it to be less than handy. The Western Plains rifles are too club-like for my taste. Too bad there really are no readily available rifles of a British pattern; they seemed to have the weight-to-caliber equation down better than our own, much better balance, and just better all-around usefulness. This Zephyr comes as close to that as I have seen lately.