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JW_Halverson:
Last weekend I co-hosted a Bushcraft USA event here in the Black Hills. Too much wood smoke, good food and drink and I made a deal by the light of glowing embers under a moonless sky.

Monday morning came and I remembered the bargain struck under dubious circumstances.

Here's what I brought home:

JW_Halverson:
This is a Connecticut Valley Arms .50 caliber Express Rifle.

From what I hear, the rifling is 1:48, so it is not suited to heavy charges under a roundball. Fast twist like this is likely to "strip" the rifling and cause terrible accuracy. I will have to see by progressively building larger and larger charges to see what comes of it. However, I have read some people have had better luck shooting saboted modern muzzleloading bullets, something I am loathe to do at this juncture.

I have also heard that the gun was not well "regulated", meaning the barrels are not set to converge at a set distance from the gun where the single set of sights can be adjusted. I guess I am not taking this gun to shooting competitions where the need to punch the center of the target is super critical....more likely I will be happy to be able to hit a pie plate sized target at 50 yards 10/10 with one or both barrels. This could be a happy little hunting gun for heavier cover if that were the case.

If not, I shall put on my pith helmet, monocle, grab up my trusty double rifle and pretend to be hunting hephalumps and tiggers in the darkest jungles of the world!

sleek:
Ohhhh what a beauty! For your query, id suggest you may have the best luck in the 100 acre woods.

Eric Krewson:
All the TCs are 1 in 48, they handle a round ball very well. I have a TC .50, it is very accurate with 75 gr of 2F, a .490 ball and .015 ticking, it does have rather shallow rifling.

Mike Yancey:
I'm anxious to see how it shoots for you!

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