New Trapdoor Owner

[mbarrad]

Mike,
A very nice trapdoor. Great looking bayonet and scabbard also. you did good.

Thanks. Not a bad trade for a Sig Sauer P6 and a GPS.

[sdkrag]

Very nice rifle. I prefer to use blackpowder only in my trapdoors. We cast 405 on the Wolf mold and 500 on the Rapine molds. Both of these replicate the original bullets fairly closely. I have found that fairly soft bullets (10% tin) shoot well in the shallow rifling on these arms. I know I won't blow up an old action using blackpowder. Modern brass is hard to stuff 70 grs. into. We had a re-enacting club and have shot litterely thounsands of rouns in the last 15 years. It took a lot of researh and experimenting to get those old rifles to shoot the way they should.

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

Removing rod. Note there is a groove in the rod that engages a stud in the stock. You have to pull down on the end of the rod to clear that stud and then pull it out.

A favourite trick of the old hands to pull on the newbies was to substitute a rifle round for the carbine round on the range. The recoil is noticeably different