Thread: 140 year old Consecutive pair of rifles. What are the chances?

Revisiting this old friend to get it hunting ready

Made a pass through sizer to get the bullets to the perfect size for the fired cases and no resizing with BP loads

Tapped and fitted a Parker Hale sight eye cup

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Been doing some testing with grease cookies and wads to be able to shoot multiple shots without BP fouling being a problem.
Seem to have it pretty well sorted.

First few shots at 60m were low.
Wound the staff up two turns and fired last 4 shots.

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So cleaned my 8 in use cases to reload this evening.
Get another 50 from Gunworks and load some of those and this rifle can go for a wander