Wondering what i need for cleaning and shooting a .50 caliber Renegade Hunter?

[isaacdavis1214]

Sorry for sending the pictures so late,they were too large and i finally figured out how to resize them.And if you are wondering,yes that is a washer to the right lol.One thing i was surprised about and i guess i shouldn't have been is how LARGE the opening to the Barrel is.The picture doesn't do it justice in my opinion,now i'm not sure how big or small the opening to the barrel of a .50 caliber muzzleloader is to most people,but compared to a .22 and 9mm it seems huge,i think it was a little more than 0.5 an inch wide,that doesn't sound like much but it is.More pictures to come.

[isaacdavis1214]

Some more pictures,one more after this.That is until i get to shoot the gun 

[isaacdavis1214]

And the last of the pictures for now.There is no way i am going to store this gun in the closet fearing it might get scratched up.So for now it's laying in the cardboard box it came in with some of the paper arounf it just in case .

[William]

It looks great, you should have fun with it.  Wait until you see the bore on someone's .62 caliber smoothbore, or look down the maw of a .72 musket, they dwarf my .54 and hurl great meteors of lead downrange.  Of course even those don't come close to this monster;
http://stolzergunsmithing.webs.com/finished2boreboxlock.htm, a 2 bore rifle!  This shoots a 1.275" round ball propelled by a 330-500 grain charge of FFg black powder.

But don't worry, there aren't many critters that can stand up to a well placed 50 caliber RB and it is also one of the more popular ML calibers so if your local gun shop carries any black powder supplies it will likely be in .50.

[isaacdavis1214]

I can imagine a .62 or .72 cal  and that rifle with the double barrel  ,if i like bp firearms and i am assuming i will.I would love to eventually have a flintlock,as they were used in the Revolutionary War and are just as cool as Caplocks.

[Rev]

Cooler. Way cooler...

[pilgrim]

        Flintlocks Rule 

[William]

I can imagine a .62 or .72 cal  and that rifle with the double barrel  ,if i like bp firearms and i am assuming i will.I would love to eventually have a flintlock,as they were used in the Revolutionary War and are just as cool as Caplocks.

Yep, you are hooked already!

[Renegade]

That is one fine lookin rifle ya got there Isaac.

[Dogshirt]

Stay away from them rocklock thingies unless yer old enuff ta drink! They are the devil's invention
and will only lead to drink and insanity! If you feel the need to use a rock to hunt, get a sling!

[pilgrim]

     Flintlocks only aggravate impatient Norwegians        

[isaacdavis1214]

Thanks Renegade i agree  .And i also agree with Flintlocks being cool,i think they look great and the way they shoot is neat.I love this caplock though hppefully i will get to shoot it sometime next week when i'm off.

[mongrel]

This has been posted elsewhere, but it entertains me if nothing else....

Another one of Colin Stolzer's 2-bore creations, and what happens when you touch it off with a "plinking" load of 350 grains of 2F under that golf-ball-sized chunk of lead.

Just wish it had been possible to fire a full five-round group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gAE6tac_k

[isaacdavis1214]

  I have never saw a gun push someone that far back lol.

[mongrel]

Like I said, that was the plinking load. Colin says a charge of roughly 500 grains of 2F is what's used for hunting. Having done the 350 grain load I'd be up for shooting the full charge -- OFFHAND -- but I wasn't going to try that to start with, not knowing what I was getting into.

Guns like that, though, aren't for normal people, and I mean that in a variety of ways. Number one, I'm not sure it's normal to enjoy being bounced around like that mini-cannon did me. Two, a more-or-less normal income could be budgeted to include a gun like that, but you don't buy one with a few extra bucks you picked up working several weeks' worth of overtime -- in other words, they don't come cheap. And, three, unless you plan to hunt the dangerous game of Africa or India there's really no earthly purpose for a rifle like that, considering the cost of just buying it to start with and then having to pay to shoot it.

Shooting someone else's, though, was a ton of fun. I may never shoot another one and I'm fine with that, but I enjoyed it just the once.