JGalt
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- Mar 9, 2011
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This is a .36 caliber Kentucky-style squirrel rifle I picked up at a garage sale for $20. It was made sometime around 1842 by R. & W.C. Biddle of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I had to replace a couple screws to tighten it up, as well as hone the sear and trigger engagement and put on a new nipple. After all, what good is any gun if you can't shoot it?
I took the rifle to the range today. I loaded her up with 65 grains of Pyrodex R and .350 patched round ball and shot a few 50-yard groups. No tack driver, but I'm still trying to figure out the Kentucky windage on her with that big buckhorn rear sight.. She seems to shoot low and to the left. The front and rear sights are in dovetail slots and can be drifted, but I'll save that for another day.
I took the rifle to the range today. I loaded her up with 65 grains of Pyrodex R and .350 patched round ball and shot a few 50-yard groups. No tack driver, but I'm still trying to figure out the Kentucky windage on her with that big buckhorn rear sight.. She seems to shoot low and to the left. The front and rear sights are in dovetail slots and can be drifted, but I'll save that for another day.