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muzzle loader question

7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2002 in General Discussion
want a muzzle loader, but i know there is one that i know of and maybe others, but you can change the caliber from .45 to .50. what makes allow you to do this? just plan on deer hunting cause a shotgun is not that great at a distance of 100yrds, and only being able to use slugs. next year i want to be able to hunt in Ohio, and this would have me covered.
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a Thompson Center Renegade. I have 2 breechplugs and 2 locks for both percussion and flitlock. I can change from one to the other in 15 minutes. The barrel is worn out. I am trying to find a replacement barrel for this and all I can find is thru Thompson Custom. They are telling me that I should not have interchangable breechplugs and I cannot buy another barrel to accept them. The barrels they have have non removeable plugs and I will have to buy 2 barrels. Is there anyplace that will sell a barrel to accept my plugs? Should I buy a new gun? Am I wasting my time with this? I like the dual trigger setup and as far as the new guns it is hard or expensive to find flintlock guns like this. PA muzzleloader season is flintlock only but I still want percussion for when I go to Ohio to hunt. What would you do?
    when all else fails........................
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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    7mm, I don't know if they are still in business but Sharon Barrel Co used to make a drop in replacement for T/C.
    "Audemus jura nostra defendere"- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Don't let yer mouth write a check yer body can't cash!
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    How on earth did you wear out a BP barrel? So long as you clean it after every shooting and oil it, soft lead bullets- even harder jacketed sabots, etc.- shouldn't wear it out. Pressure and velocity just ain't there.
    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    7mm, I bow down before you, no one has ever worn out a barrel on a muzzle loader before, except for those guys I hang with, but they shoot A LOT, how did you do that? You must be a reenactor or something eh? If not, my hats off to you. Now you got a problem, that will teach you to pollute the world with your evil lead balls, he he! Found it, try this, no its not a web address, remember how to dial a phone, ha, its the phone number for Dixie Gun Works, out of Tenn. tell them your problem, they can probably help, I think they're the largest muzzle loader supplier on earth. 1-800-238-6785
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC[This message has been edited by robsguns (edited 01-21-2002).]
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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Rob, did old Turner Kirkland ever die?
    "Audemus jura nostra defendere"- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Don't let yer mouth write a check yer body can't cash!
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Turner Kirkland? My memory isnt all that good, but I'm not sure I know him, refresh my memory please.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Turner Kirkland of DGW died at least a few years ago. I believe his heirs sold off at least some of the gun and auto collection.
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  • BUCK/91/92BUCK/91/92 Member Posts: 35 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    7mm I have a T.C. Renegade with double set triggers that just might need a new home.
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  • BufflerBuffler Member Posts: 821 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Check with these folks,they make drop inbarrels for it. GREEN MOUNTAIN RIFLE BARREL CO.INC. 1-603-447-1095. They should be ableto help you! BE SAFE!! Buffler
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    v35...I went down to Dixie Gunworks this summer and they still had the car collection on display in their new building. $2.00 got you into the car side of the building. I don't know if it was a reduced collection but it was still pretty impressive. Most impressive thing I saw, though, was the incredible collection of original Confederate pistols. That collection was mind boggling. I'm not sure how much they would now be worth but what got me was how so many of them had been found stashed away in old people's homes over the years. Beach
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Beach and robs guns, thanks for the tips. I will definately check into it. As far as wearing it out, I bought the gun used and it went thru some abuse, I have had it for awhile now and I put an awfull lot of powder and lead thru it, I just cant get it to shoot right anymore and the balls need to be double or tripple patched now to get them to go snug in the barrel. if I use one patch a newborn baby can seat it. Let me know buck if it needs adopted, I have a boy who will be needing a smoke pole for next season. I have a rule in my house, new hunters do not get a rifle untill they kill with a muzzle loader and a bow.(makes them respect hunting more)
    when all else fails........................
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