Post by: Sabotloader on September 29, 2015, 08:17:48 PM
This is a picture of the rifle he sent me.
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LeRoy bought the rifle for me and said he would ship it. But when he got home and took it apart to check it out - he found it was loaded!!!! - he removed the BP and pushed the load out then ran some patches through - discovered some pitting in the breech area and bit on the hammer floor. Wasn't sounding real good but I asked him to go ahead and send it out.
It arrived on Monday - it physically really did not look that bad. I spent the day cleaning up and working on the pitting - minor pitting and I did find a little bit more just beneath the crown. With that I broke out the JB's and worked the bore over. Got the rifle pretty much ready to go and since it was only 3:00 thought I would run to the far and see if it would shoot! Oh! I did one other thing removed the green wood stock and dropped the rifle in a DISC Elite Thumbhole stock. Dropped right in and really felt good!
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Right now the 'PLAN' is that I will probably load this rifle the Junior High kid across the street so he can muzzleload hunt with his dad this fall. But before I could do that I wanted to make sure it would shoot. I just can not understand why some would not take care of their rifle and let the decay happen. But! I was confident the 'ole girl' would shoot! MK's are tough!
Got to the far and got setup - I had laser bore sighted the rifle at 13 yards in the house so I set the target at 50 yards as I was pretty confident I would be on paper. Another change I removed the scope blocks and the rear sight and installed a Williams WGRS peep - I really do not like these because they are what I call a 'slide and glide' sight. I much prefer positive clicks like the Williams FP peep...
The Rifle did not disappoint! I ended up quickly shooting 2 different groups before I had to hustle back to the house. Hope to get out more with it this week...
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Not to bad for an $85 rifle!
Post by: JJB11B on September 29, 2015, 08:21:49 PM
Post by: Sabotloader on September 29, 2015, 09:00:49 PM
Looks like fun! Question for you, I discovered that the ramrod on my CVA is bent, the local sporting goods store has a knight replacement ramrod, will that work?
I would depend on the length of the rods - measure yours and then measure the one at the store. The diameters should really be close. Other online you could order a rod that you cut to the correct length and install the end on it.