Primitive has nothing to do with price.
This will do
Westley richard .50 cal percussion sporting rifle
A nice clean gun, I replaced the nipple with a modern one threads are 1/4"-28 tpi, very good bore with slight pitting, bolted lock functions flawlessly. A very nice rifle that will make a great Deer gun. 3750$www.doublegunshop.com
There was a kid that died from lead poisoning "mining" his own lead from local gun ranges. Just FYI.
Have you got a link to that story?
I’ve got one, it shoots great. I put a trigger tech trigger in it and a breech plug upgrade from arrowhead rifles, and a muzzle brake. Overall I’ve been happy with it. It has only ever been fired at an animal one time, two weeks ago when my daughter killed a buck in Colorado with it.
My nephew had heard about the kid. I believe that it was up in Michigan. It's a true story. He was collecting the lead from the backstops, and as I remember it took 9-12 most and it hit him. I'll ask him for more details.
Im done with CVA, so I'm between the Remington and Knight.
@perma I have shot the 700 a few times. It's very accurate and on the heavy side. I personally perfer the CVA paramount over the Remington.
I paid something close to that for mine probably 15 years ago? Used. It's a fun rifle to shoot!
Ive got a Knight disc rifle I bought 23 years. It uses shotgun primers. I notice that you use pistol cartridges ex the powder and bullet? Is that right? Not familiar with that ignition method. What type of rifle? Is the briass hard to remove after the shot? Any issues? How about accuracy at say 100 yards?
The original pistol case type brass ignition system (pictured in my earlier post) is very easy to remove; the Arrowhead ignition modules I have now are a little more difficult to remove from the bolt because they are much smaller. I went to that system because I was shooting ridiculous charge volumes of BH209 shooting out to 500 yards and the original ignition system had issues with flame cutting the breech plug with heavy BH209 loads. It is a Remington built on a Model 700 action. Accuracy far exceeds my expectations.
