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Dphariss
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Heavy Flintlock Match rifle
      #203957 - 28/02/12 03:56 AM

This rifle had a 1 1/4 x 44 x 50 caliber McLemore barrel.
Weighs about 18 pounds. Its a match winner in two outings before the stock was finished the longest 10 shot string was 10.3". Where I shoot with the usual wind strings under 12" are "good". With me and my son shooting it at the first match we attended the rifle one 7 of ten shots and the aggregate for me.
Its styled after a Dickert Kentucky. #48 in Rifle of Colonial America Vol. 1
There are 2 heavy FL rifles with carving, engraving etc in Kindigs book and there are others.
Rifles of this type were used in Germany probably before the FL era.













Not all heavy barreled ML target rifles were made in Applachia.


We use a HC plank rest and shoot a turkey target for closest to center.



Now I need to engrave it... and cut the patchbox release down some more.

Dan

Edited by CptCurl (19/03/12 11:33 AM)

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Re: Heavy Flintlock Match rifle [Re: Dphariss]
      #203962 - 28/02/12 07:27 AM

Very cool Dan!





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Re: Heavy Flintlock Match rifle [Re: tinker]
      #203981 - 28/02/12 11:40 AM

Dan - nice job on the carving and finish. Is the barrel straight octagonal, or straight taper?

I can just about make out the rear sights, when they situatied at the entry pipe, now.

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Re: Heavy Flintlock Match rifle [Re: DarylS]
      #203995 - 28/02/12 01:46 PM

Very Nice.

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Re: Heavy Flintlock Match rifle [Re: CowboyCS]
      #204052 - 29/02/12 07:07 AM

Just re-looking over the rifle, Dan. The architecture is very nice. It doesn't LOOK as if it weighs 18 pounds - that's hard to do. Even with the straight barrel, it looks like a normal 10 pound longrifle.

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Re: Heavy Flintlock Match rifle [Re: DarylS]
      #204132 - 01/03/12 05:54 AM


I like the original Dickert a lot.
My barrel weight calculator says the barrel weighs about 13.5 pounds.
I drew it out and found that it would come out about as deep at the lock as my 1" barreled Don King Flint Hawken.
With a 1 1/4 barrel, 3/16" web, a 3/8" rod hole and about 1/8" to cover the rod hole it was about 2" deep at the front of the lock as sawed out.
I have not measured it now that its shaped however I sawed it very close to size.
I cheated with the stock pattern by enlarging a photo of RCA 48. The original seems to have about a 12.5" pull. But it has a little more drop from the line of sight. It does cheek well in its intended use though.
I am thinking of putting my 15x target scope on it for load development


Dan

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Re: Heavy Flintlock Match rifle [Re: Dphariss]
      #210051 - 04/06/12 02:01 PM

I shot a 10 shot string measure match at Cody in early May.
String was 4.087" of .4087" average distance from center.
Its even more interesting when its understood that shot #5 was out 2.2" from center when I misread the wind.
Distance 60 yards. Open sights, plank rest.
This is a composite drawn using all 10 targets on the back of an identical target drawing the bullet holes with a pen so the marked circles are under 50 caliber. The x is the center of the target that the string in measured from.




Took home most of the prize money.

100 yard 20 shot match on the 31st was not as good, worse wind. Blew from all points of the compass during the match. Shot on the 100 yard 25 ring Schuetzen target 5 shots on each target.
Winning string, shot with a 45 caliber percussion rifle with a globe front sight and "lollipop" tang sight beat my open sighted flintlock for first place by .069". The shortest two strings were shot with round balls Steve's 32.508 and my 32.577. Third place was using a cloth patched picket bullet and I think a scope at 34.261. But the wind really got him on 3-4 shots and he shot a 9"+ string on target 4.
11 competitors.

Dan

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Re: Heavy Flintlock Match rifle [Re: Dphariss]
      #210103 - 05/06/12 01:54 AM

We're planning on having a plank shoot at our local Rendezvous June 30th long weekend, Dan. Plans made yesteday are to set up 4 planks - it will be the Sunday 'in camp' shoot. Normally, all the shooting is on the bush trail, with a novelty in camp rifle and trap shoot on Sunday.

I've got to find those turkey targets that Steven mailed to me so I can takwe them down to the print shop for copying.

Every time I see that rifle of yours, Dan, I want to make one for myself.

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