You use to be able to buy zip-up padded soft cases in lengths that would accommodate a 42" barreled long rifle...............I've got several of them in my shop. I always transported my rifles to and from shoots in them. KOLPIN used to make some, among others. They were a tight fit, and you could barely get the zipper to shut, but they would.
My m/loading rifles have never fired a load of b/p substitute............always real black. They have never fired a bullet, always patched roundball. Slow twists for me. The last rifle I built, for crossed-sticks competition, has shot as small as 5/8" 5 shot 100 yard groups with a patched ball.
I want to build one more, in the English half-stock style of A. Henry or J. Rigby. I have one of the finest handmade percussion locks ever made to put on it, built for me by Bob Roller.
That's really a pretty "Po-boy", Lloyd. Soon be time to make meat with it.
SRH
Last edited by Stan; 10/22/18 07:59 PM.
