My new Mongrel .40

[woody]

Got to shoot the .40 cal. today that Mike built for me.  Again I was  pressed for time, but at least I was able to see it's a shooter! 40 grs. 3f, .390 cast balls with .010 prelude OX-YOKE patches. I want to shoot it several more times before trying to work on the sights to make sure it's the shooter, not the rifle that needs adjusting. I do know it is shooting low as I was holding at the very top edge to get this grouping. I flinch really bad on the sixth shot. After 5 no fires on the seventh, cold fingers and  replacing the used flint I had been using, I jerked number 7 really bad.  Overall I'd say it's a great rifle.

[gunmaker]

Looks like my rifle's brother.  Fine work mongrel.............Tom

[Hanshi]

That's a fine looking little rifle.  Mongrel does excellent work.

[mtnmike]

Another great looking flintlock,you guys are killing me

[Black Jack]

Great looking rifle. Very clean, simple, uncluttered design. I want to ask what the name (or school) would be for that general style of rifle? Also, what size of barrel (distance between the flats and length) did you use?

[mongrel]

It's a generic southern rifle with a 42" x 3/4" .40 caliber barrel -- a Montana, I was told, but it's unmarked and for the price I got it the fact that it was of visibly premium quality was enough.

I'm aware that iron-mounted southern rifles are sometimes, at least loosely, categorized into schools, but the details of these particular individual schools are something I'm not up to speed on. What I build is a general representation of the type, roughly post-1830, and depending on who might be evaluating it, and how strictly, it would fit in pretty much everywhere or pretty much nowhere.