Green_Frog wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2009 at 10:19am:



Is it a secret discontinued mold you cant share with the rest of us?  

It must be perty rare and hard to find huh?  

Is it a special adjustable two part bore riding reverse taper thick skirt percussion rifle money bullet with a bidirectional dirt scraper?    


                         Joe.  

Well then would you mind telling us the number of the mold?

 I'll put it as plain as possible.  Will you DW or Green_Frog post on this thread the number of the Lee discontinued mold that DW is trying to obtain?  I'm not going to "move along" GF. I am interested in this thread and the rifles being discussed. 

          Joe.

DW, 
Check Dixie Gun Works, they have all sorts of nipples. I didn't know they made that "modern minnie" in .45. I found a '96 catalog with only .50 & .54. I have the "improved minnie" moulds in .451 & .454 and some bullets cast in the .454 mould if that might help.

Man where were you guy's a few weeks ago when I was asking about a ML Suetzen rifle. All I got was beat up for asking about such a thing.  

Hay that's OK as you can see there are more of us out there that love these great target rifles.

I ordered my 35 cal. Bristlen Morges two weeks ago, which is very similar to the rifle DW has shown us. Pedersoli makes these in small quantities so it will take about six months to get here. They also make a mould for this same rifle that throws a .447 GG bullet that might be what DW needs for his beauty. If mine doesn't turn out I will be forced to build from scratch.


Shoot more Schuetzen,

James

You didnt get beat up James, lol.  The thread did get a "red " period that seemed to kill the thread.  Ah but now we're rolling along with DWs help!

Six Months for a Pedersoli? Much too long a wait. 
 
I really think we should post and post about percussion Schutzen rifles till we take over the forum. Everyone will sell their cartridge rifles. Just think, no more brass problems, no primer shortage problems, no more smokeless powder problems. And the best part is it's okay to consume sausages and drink beer while shooting percussion Schutzen rifles. Thats how they did it in the old days. We could take all the money we get from our cartridge guns to build a Schutzen house with a big dance hall and a library a brewery and rooms upstairs for rent. Too much beer you go upstairs and crash. The possibility's are endless. I would like to be in charge of the trout ponds.

                 Joe.  

                                        

'nother ???  for you schuetzen gurus.   I'm puzzled by the front sight.  first of all it was installed backwards. Ken Meyer pointed it out to me. the sight base has a little pointer dead center and the tic-mark in the barrel is in front of the sight.  the tic mark was on the back the way it was installed.  so I drove it out and reversed it.  also the cut out in the hood now is positioned to back light the fine pin so it is in sharper relief.

but what about the pins on the side of the hood?

here's the 1st of 2 pics

obviously taken before I turned the sight around

Westerner/Joe, I didn't mean to put you off with my answer... I simply responded to what I thought was an attempt at humor.  DW had asked for help finding a specific bullet with a rather cryptic (to me, anyway) description earlier in the thread and on the WTB board.  I used my connections on the N-SSA board to try and locate one for him and apparently succeeded.  I still don't have more than a vague notion of what the bullet looks like because its very name seems to negate the description I have.  For more details, you'll have to ask our bold experimentalist DW, who found the design somewhere in his stash of old and varied memories and decided to try it for this application.

James, I'm sorry if you felt I was trying to discourage your interest in percussion schuetzen rifles in general or that one in particular... I think they are cool firearms and I'm shooting a lot of percussion stuff now myself, but in its own venue, not at ASSRA events that are held expressly to shoot single shot cartridge firearms (other than bolt action) designed between the American Civil War and World War I (and modern arms made in the spirit of the above.)  If somebody wants to organize a muzzle loading Schuetzen match, or a head to head muzzle and breech loading Schuetzen match, I'd probably be interested in shooting in it with you, but I wouldn't presume to tell the organizers to change the rules they were using so I could use my pet rifle (whatever it was.)

Joe again, I can't remember for sure where in the West you are located, but if there is trout fishing and shooting and rooms upstairs, not to mention beer downstairs, I will definitely count my shekels and try to attend your inaugural match and will be more than willing to shoot whatever type of rifle you specify, or stay home and not complain about what you are doing.  Be aware, however, that percussion caps are getting about as scarce and more expensive than primers (around here at least) so that may be important. 

Froggie