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I keep thinking about upgrading my left handed Lyman but I want a flintlock with a faster 1:28 twist to shoot lead free sabot bullets. I wish PA would swap the late season flintlock to October and allow an inline season after Xmas. 40 years of freezing my butt off after Xmas and most of the nice bucks are dropping their antlers. I love 2 weeks in the fall with a flintlock. Have you actually tried sabots? ALL of my 1:48's shoot 240-250gr XTP's very well with between 70 and 100gr loose 777. One does ok with 300's, as well. This includes my Lyman Deerstalker. Because of the barrel length, I keep that one at 90gr of powder. I think a longer barrel is better for larger charges. Now, slower than a 1:48 will almost certainly present issues. I am in Pa too. The late season is good for finding them in their beds, but otherwise just stinks. I agree that the early season should include bucks, too. I get the idea that the game commission guys must not hunt....
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Very nice! Hope you get to burn some powder during hunting season!
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Very nice
Never had any inlines myself. Sidelocks only. I was thinking about having a one-and-only rifle built some years ago after I'd been using and hunting with B.P. guns for a few years, but even back then all the buildings I'd talked to only wanted to turn out really nice top end highly embellished and artistic masterpieces. Nobody wanted to build a rifle to drag through the briars and creek bottoms with a plain stock with no figure and no inlays and such. Used to could buy a suitable factory made job that would work fine with maybe the smallest of tweaking and clean up. All that stuff is fairly rare these days. Seemed to start after Turner Kirkland left the building
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Very nice
Never had any inlines myself. Sidelocks only. I was thinking about having a one-and-only rifle built some years ago after I'd been using and hunting with B.P. guns for a few years, but even back then all the builders I'd talked to only wanted to turn out really nice top end highly embellished and artistic masterpieces. Nobody wanted to build a rifle to drag through the briars and creek bottoms with a plain stock with no figure and no inlays and such. Used to could buy a suitable factory made job that would work fine with maybe the smallest of tweaking and clean up. All that stuff is fairly rare these days. Seemed to start after Turner Kirkland left the building
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Very nice
Never had any inlines myself. Sidelocks only. I was thinking about having a one-and-only rifle built some years ago after I'd been using and hunting with B.P. guns for a few years, but even back then all the builders I'd talked to only wanted to turn out really nice top end highly embellished and artistic masterpieces. Nobody wanted to build a rifle to drag through the briars and creek bottoms with a plain stock with no figure and no inlays and such. Used to could buy a suitable factory made job that would work fine with maybe the smallest of tweaking and clean up. All that stuff is fairly rare these days. Seemed to start after Turner Kirkland left the building A "poor boy" is a common build these days, and you can even get semi finished kits in that style from some of the upper end kit makers. No bells and whistles, just pure function. I like building a plain rifle myself. Iron mountings, semi fancy or plain wood. Something the common man would have had built back in the day.
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children may live in peace. ~~ Thomas Paine
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