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oldracer Participating Member Offline Posts: 49 Joined: Nov 24^th, 2012	My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Aug 11^th, 2018 at 11:28pm	Print Post
	Yeah I know this is a Schuetzen web site but I bought the 45 caliber gain twist barrel/false muzzle and bullet starter and it had Russ Hooks name on a barrel flat in magic marker! No other markings? The walnut stock cost me $4 as it was already cut for a Hawken rifle and it took me 4 months to get it assembled/ The Unertl scope I found in a pawn shop in Arkansas for a great price. Once I tried to go out to 200 yards I found I needed taller blocks and now it shoots 4 inch groups at 300 yards with 80 grains of Goex FFG and a Creedmoor 540 grain bullet.


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oldracer Participating Member Offline Posts: 49 Joined: Nov 24^th, 2012	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #1 - Aug 11^th, 2018 at 11:30pm	Print Post
	Here is the other side.


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moodyholler Oldtimer Offline Posts: 697 Location: Blue Ridge Joined: Oct 11^th, 2005	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #2 - Aug 12^th, 2018 at 12:28pm	Print Post
	Way cool! I have an under hammer by John Braxton with a .38 call barrel on it. Lyman STS completes the rig. I like yours. It looks great! moodyholler


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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #3 - Aug 12^th, 2018 at 1:12pm	Print Post
	Very nice and a very self rewarding project indeed. JLouis

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jhm Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1474 Location: georgia Joined: Sep 4^th, 2011	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #4 - Aug 12^th, 2018 at 8:32pm	Print Post
	Good looking rig.... Don't suppose you want to part with the scope? JMH


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oldracer Participating Member Offline Posts: 49 Joined: Nov 24^th, 2012	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #5 - Aug 13^th, 2018 at 1:02am	Print Post
	No thank you as I just got finished putting in new cross hairs due to an accident several weeks ago at the range when a huge wind gust blew my extra targets box into the rifle and it fell over and banged the scope! I used some 0.0005 tungsten wire......really hard to see!


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.22Hepburn Oldtimer Offline Posts: 803 Location: Pennsylvania Joined: Feb 18^th, 2008	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #6 - Aug 13^th, 2018 at 7:42am	Print Post
	Nothing quite like "rolling your own".


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Gunfunpow Full Member Offline Posts: 239 Joined: Jun 20^th, 2018	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #7 - Aug 13^th, 2018 at 3:25pm	Print Post
	Yeah! That is a nice slug gun, glad you're enjoying it the way it was meant to be, not gazed at up on the wall. I have a Billinghurst action going on to an old Douglas .45 false muzzle barrel along with this old timer I found in Vermont. It was reblued by the previous owner in 1956. Still going strong!


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oldracer Participating Member Offline Posts: 49 Joined: Nov 24^th, 2012	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #8 - Aug 13^th, 2018 at 6:07pm	Print Post
	I have a chunk gun that I put a very fancy walnut stock on that came with a 50 caliber 1 in 48 Douglas XX stainless steel barrel. It came with false muzzle and starter and it was made for a shooter up in WI years ago. It will put patched round balls in a 4 inch circle at 200 yards! I made a 20# shooter as the barrel is 1.5 inches across the flats! John


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Gunfunpow Full Member Offline Posts: 239 Joined: Jun 20^th, 2018	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #9 - Aug 14^th, 2018 at 12:16pm	Print Post
	I wonder how many of us on this forum share an interest in the muzzle loading chunk guns from the old days. You know, those target rifles with thick barrels, target sights and set triggers. Maybe we should start a new thread about our favorites and see if there's any interest?


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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #10 - Aug 14^th, 2018 at 1:03pm	Print Post
	There are a few X Slug Gun competitors on the site who might share an interest but it should probably be posted in the off topic section all though I wouldn't have an issue with it being discussed here. The off topic section has been a bit busy lately and it might end up getting lost.

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oldracer Participating Member Offline Posts: 49 Joined: Nov 24^th, 2012	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #11 - Aug 14^th, 2018 at 3:55pm	Print Post
	The main reason I posted this here was due to the barrel having Russ Hooks' name on one of the barrel flats in magic marker! I imagine most people here know who he is and as far as I know he is kicking himself for letting this barrel go? The barrel is a gain twist that ends at 1 in 15 at the muzzle but has no markings and I think it is a Ron Smith made beauty but Russ can't remember where or from whom he got it.


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3873 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #12 - Aug 14^th, 2018 at 4:16pm	Print Post
	Now John, maybe not so off topic. The only difference between these and a Pope rifle with a false muzzle could be said is that the slug gun has the "brass case" over the firing pin and the Pope has the brass case in front of the firing pin;-)


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moodyholler Oldtimer Offline Posts: 697 Location: Blue Ridge Joined: Oct 11^th, 2005	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #13 - Aug 14^th, 2018 at 7:25pm	Print Post
	I don't find it a bit off topic. We need more like this. Nice post and most enjoyable. Well placed also. moodyholler


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oldman46 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 424 Joined: Sep 21^st, 2016	Re: My Home Created Muzzle Loading Slug Gun Reply #14 - Aug 14^th, 2018 at 11:24pm	Print Post
	Like the leather built up cheek piece on the stock. Have an old welders apron in decent shape so could either do it your way or wrap it around the British Enfield 303 stock and use felt under the leather to raise it up. Those old enfields do leave a lot to be desired as to getting a proper cheek weld. Anyway right nice rifle. bet it does kick some though. Frank


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