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Offline KING

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« on: November 16, 2003, 07:22:44 AM »
:D  :D   Well......Yesterday I got to find out how my new rifle works........................and it works just fine.  It is not all finished yet and the metal parts are all in the white as of yet.  It is a full stocked 1830s longrifle.  Caliber is a .58 with a Green mountian bbl which inturn has a 1:72 inch twist in it,and is 44 inches in length.  Yes......................it is a heavy rifle to lug around but it is also steady on the hold.  I have open sights on it and was using 100 grns of Swiss 2ff with a Hornady .570 rb with a .020 pillow ticking patch.  Lube is pure neetsfoot oil.  A nice 5 point came out at a little over 80 yards so I decided to take the shot.  Ball went through both shoulders and kept on going.....................deer did not( weighed in at 168,dressed).  I will attempt to post some photos of it when it gets all finished but that is going to be a couple of weeks .  Stay safe.....................King 8)  8)
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2003, 04:58:15 PM »
Thank God, someone who shoots a REAL rifle! Been wading through some of the posts on in-lines, and wondering...why? Blow back, stuck breech plugs, plastic stocks, "miss-aligned" bolts...!!! Just kidding, to each his own.

I love the .58, I have a .58 slug gun.

Right now my new toy is a Brown Bess, took it out Turkey hunting this spring but did not get a shot. Tried for Elk during early Elk BP season, but didn't get a shot.

This fall I got three grouse with it, and on the 20th I'll be chasing Elk around with it again. I've got rifle sights on it, and with FFg Swiss, a .735" ball, and thick ticking I'm keeping my shots in a 6" circle at 75 yards, and on a paper plate at 85. 3-4" at 50 yards is no problem.

Well congrats, and I'm assuming your rifle is a flinter? My next rifle will be a .62 Calibre Jaeger kit from Track of the Woof.
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2003, 06:12:21 PM »
King,.... "Congrats" on yore new .58 fullstock!!

When I lived in Alaska, I built myself a riflegun much like yore's. Mine was an "Early Hawken" fullstock .58 with 42" Green Mountain barrel,... and thet thing was a real shooter, however a friend bought it from me 'fore I moved back to Wyoming,... this summer I built anuther "Early Hawken" fullstock .58 with 36" Green Mountain barrel,... and it's a "shooter" to.

I'm git'n REAL "fond" of them Green Mountain .58's. :grin:
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2003, 02:51:06 PM »
Rollingb,

Where in Wyoming are you at?  I've kicked around Alaska off and on over 30 years now, and one of the "off" periods was went in Pinedale.  I had an underhammer .45 (Hopkins & Allen, by Numrich Arms) at the time.  Still have it, for that matter.  One of these days I'm going to go after deer with it.  It has taken its share of bunnies, though.  Takes a lot less lead than the .54.  I can't even imagine feeding one of those .75s!

-Kees-
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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2003, 03:53:34 PM »
Kees,.... I now live 'tween Greybull and Worland, 'long tha Big Horn River. Before I moved to Tok Alaska in 1990,... I lived in Ft. Bridger Wyoming.
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