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[Kenl]

New member here. Nice to find a forum that you can discuss BP bench and slug guns.
I am not new to BP guns but I am new slug guns. I was looking for a barrel maker to make a bench slug gun barrel. A gentleman was nice enough to sell me a slug gun he had made in the 80's that he hadn't shot very much. Richard Hoch made the barrel, false cross patch muzzle, ball starter and two moulds that came with it. I am going to re breech it, make a new under hammer action and change it over to a close ignition. It is 38 cal. (.365 bore) 30 inch barrel, 1 5/8 across flats. Now if I can figure out out shoot this thing! LOL any help would be appreciated.

[Don McDowell]

Welcome aboard Kenl. This isn't the busiest place on the net, but it is the friendliest, and best to get solid information from folks with more experience than post counts. I got a feeling you're going to fit right in.

[rhbrink]

Great! Welcome Kenl another muzzleloader I'm just getting started in the bench rest muzzleloading game although I have shot muzzleloaders for 46 years mostly offhand. I am looking to find someone to build a slug gun barrel too.

RB

[Kenl]

Great! Welcome Kenl another muzzleloader I'm just getting started in the bench rest muzzleloading game although I have shot muzzleloaders for 46 years mostly offhand. I am looking to find someone to build a slug gun barrel too.

RB

The only people that I have found so far to make a slug barrel is Rice Barrel Company. One - two year weight and $750.00. Price does include false muzzle. I am glad I found a complete gun with all accessories. Like I said I am going to re breech it and make a new action for it. But I feel I got a great deal on it. I am in the same time frame as you. Shot BP guns for years but just now getting into chunk, table, and bench shooting. This slug gun shooting is quite involved. Should be a great fun learning curve. Keep me posted on your journey into bench shooting. Are you going to shoot RB and slug bench. Where are you located.

[rhbrink]

Nice to have some muzzleloader conversation. I knew that Rice made some slug barrels I do have a couple of Rice round ball barrels and they shoot well. I wonder how the Rice barrels match up with Bresien and Large barrels never heard of anyone shooting one. At my home club we are planning on getting some bench shooting going again. There was at one time there were quite a few bench shooters in the area but the club slowly moved away from that and more into offhand animal targets and a lot of the bang and clang stuff. But there is getting to be some interest back into bench shooting and it will all be round ball for now as that are club rules Round Ball Only which is OK to me. I also plan on getting a Table Shoot going this Spring and maybe even a Turkey Plank Match too guess we'll see what happens with that.

I live south of Kansas City and belong to Fort Osage Muzzleloaders and also Pioneer Gun Club. Pretty handy they are both within 20 miles of the house and only about 5 miles apart.

Richard

[Kenl]

Our local club only has 25yd and 5o yd range. But we are going to try the 30yd table shoot and maybe 50 yd RB bench this year. Have your club thought about chunk shooting?

[rhbrink]

Our local club only has 25yd and 5o yd range. But we are going to try the 30yd table shoot and maybe 50 yd RB bench this year. Have your club thought about chunk shooting?

At Fort Osage we have 25, 50, and 100 over the hill at Pioneer we can shoot out to 200. The Chunk gun shooting has never done well at Fort Osage probably because the people running the club in the past just didn't want to do it. Not far from us about 100 miles there is a big Chunk gun shoot every year that the Bevel brothers put on and it draws quite a crowd as I understand. I 've never been there.

We just have elected a new president and a couple of new officers and
hopefully there will some changes in the shooting matches. But changes come slowly it takes a lot of convincing to get some people to try something different. It's kind of a Catch 22 a lot of people say they want to try to draw in some new shooters but then don't want to change anything to attract them and the old stuff seems to have run out of steam? The only thing that you can do is try and that's were we are at right now.

Richard

[Kenl]

Sounds like our club. Stuck in old ways.
I have been out in the shop working on the action for the slug gun.

[Old Jim]

KenL,

Welcome. I don't shoot your venue but this place has room for us all. My way is the Black Powder Cartridge Rifle way, rollers, etc. , not right, but not wrong either .

Make smoke,

Jim

[rhbrink]

I think it's great and appreciate the effort that the owner has put into this. I used to shoot BPCR but drifted away from that now into single shot rifles, Schuetzen and also shoot a lot of CastBulletassoc matches mostly plain base and military issue, and muzzleloaders. Here you can talk target rifles and underhammers some other forums even if you are talking about a rifle that fits in the time frame but it isn't the right shape you get lamblasted. But it's OK to talk TC Hawkens and spaghetti and taco Hawkins I don't get it and probably never will.

All accurate rifles are interesting to me.

RB