Interesting Photos

Hanshi · June 22, 2019, 08:26:11 PM

Whoooo, I'm on a roll today. I'll go first with two photos taken 35 years apart. Left one was taken by a friend of a target we'd been shooting alternating shots. We were pretty much on the same group. Rifle is my .45 L. Lancaster flintlock. This was about 15 years ago. The B&W on the right was taken about 1969 with an H&A .45 Minuteman flintlock - a pretty good rifle, actually. I'd owned it for quite a while. Forgive picture quality, please. So what have you got to share?

Left click on the pic to enbiggun it.

Patocazador · June 23, 2019, 01:57:48 PM

The underhammer looks like it's carrying you instead of the other way around.

Patocazador · June 23, 2019, 01:58:46 PM

Double post

Hanshi · June 23, 2019, 07:45:55 PM

Both, of course, are flintlock longrifles with the Minuteman being rather nose heavy with a 39" X 15/16" barrel. The longrifle on the left is my shortest flintlock. The .45 barrel is 36" X 13/16" with just enough "hang" to feel good. It's light, though, and has been my favorite deer rifle for many, many years.

In recent years I've become very, very fond of my .62 X 38" smoothbore; a deer killer of note. My newest is a TVM totally custom longrifle. It's a .50 X 38" X "B" wgt Rice rb barrel. The lock is a Chambers GA lock. I had this one built with a 12.5" lop and it feels so good on the shoulder that I could sleep with it in my bed. This rifle is based on an early Lancaster/York styling with the hardware from a late Lancaster. Many would call it a youth's rifle but I'm that size and it fits just sooooo sweetly. The stock is, unbelievably, only 2 grades up from plain. A daddy has to love his children, right?

.62 smoothbore.