Post by Savagefan on Apr 23, 2005 10:57:09 GMT -5
For those of you who might be interested in a blend of traditional styling and modern performance, you might want to take a look at the old half-stock I just pulled out of retirement. (I'll try to post a photo here...but if it doesn't work...go to my website at www.hpmuzzleloading.com and you'll find a photo about mid-way down on the home page.)
This was my first true "bullet rifle". I built the rifle back in 1982, first installing a .45 factory T/C "Hawken" barrel. But I was never truly happy with the accuracy, even after I had installed a modern 3-9x40mm scope. So, I convinced a custom barrel maker to take that barrel, ream and polish it to .50 caliber and re-rifle it with a snappy turn-in-24 inches. The resulting rifle was deadly accurate with a variety of big, heavy conical bullets. On my first hunt with the re-rifled half-stock, I bowled over a 15 1/2-inch horned pronghorn buck at 220 yards with a 385-grain Buffalo Bullet. (at that time the rifle had been fitted with a 4x Redfield long eye relief pistol scope.)
Well, the rig now features a 28-inch long Green Mountain .50 caliber "LRH" drop in barrel with turn-in-28 inches rifling twist. And with the loooooong "old-style" Leatherwood 6x "Wm. Malcolm" telescopic rifle sight, I can keep most groups at about 1 1/2 inches across at a hundred yards - shooting a 100 grain charge of FFFg Triple Seven behind one of the 260-grain saboted .40 caliber Precision rifle "Dead Center" bullets (using an MMP sub-base between t![]()
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he powder and sabot).
I think I am going to really enjoy shooting this rifle...and hunting some with it this fall.
Toby Bridges
Well, I couldn't insert the photo.
This was my first true "bullet rifle". I built the rifle back in 1982, first installing a .45 factory T/C "Hawken" barrel. But I was never truly happy with the accuracy, even after I had installed a modern 3-9x40mm scope. So, I convinced a custom barrel maker to take that barrel, ream and polish it to .50 caliber and re-rifle it with a snappy turn-in-24 inches. The resulting rifle was deadly accurate with a variety of big, heavy conical bullets. On my first hunt with the re-rifled half-stock, I bowled over a 15 1/2-inch horned pronghorn buck at 220 yards with a 385-grain Buffalo Bullet. (at that time the rifle had been fitted with a 4x Redfield long eye relief pistol scope.)
Well, the rig now features a 28-inch long Green Mountain .50 caliber "LRH" drop in barrel with turn-in-28 inches rifling twist. And with the loooooong "old-style" Leatherwood 6x "Wm. Malcolm" telescopic rifle sight, I can keep most groups at about 1 1/2 inches across at a hundred yards - shooting a 100 grain charge of FFFg Triple Seven behind one of the 260-grain saboted .40 caliber Precision rifle "Dead Center" bullets (using an MMP sub-base between t
I think I am going to really enjoy shooting this rifle...and hunting some with it this fall.
Toby Bridges
Well, I couldn't insert the photo.