DHY

I have hunted for 30+ yrs. with a 45cal. long rifle cap & patch ball.
Does anyone else hunt with one? I put together many years ago 2 hawken style one left handed and one right handed , shot about 50 rds.through both then this idiot sold them. I have put over 5000 rounds through this one, still hits 3" bull at 150yds. open sights.
Thinking of building another one but the cast of a good barrel I can buy a completed fact. rifle. <img src=icon_smile_blush.gif border=0 align=middle>

1950KID

Have you ever shot a deer at 150 yards with a 45 rifle?

LARRY338

You can get a danged good barrel for less than $100 from several barrel makers. Look in the want adds in the back of Muzzleblasts. I am building a rifle right now and all the parts cost just slightly over $300. Look at the parts available from Jim Chambers, Track of the Wolf, October Country, and Green Mountain, Ed Rayle, Colerain, and some other makers of parts. Its cheaper than you might think. Siler lock kit is about $55, a good barrel is about $100, Davis triggers about $35, precarved stock about $125 a butplate, sideplate, ramrod pipes and a set of sights around $40 and youre in business.

cyclone

I shoot a replica long rifle..pedersoli's &quot;frontier rifle&quot;, found in Cabelas catalog as a &quot;Blue Ridge Rifle&quot;..I have two of them one in .36 cal for squirrels and one in .50 cal for deer. Both of them are percussions and shoot very good. I would never trade them. I can pop a target the size of a clay pidgeon at 100 yds with the 50...

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