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I'm again privileged to be shooting another prototype from Woodman arms, this Paramount has a number 17 brux, it has marks adjustable breech plug, for the moment I'm shooting a flat bolt tip that replaced the factory bolt tip Mark has a slotted bolt tip that's in route as we speak. I have not slept much this week, I have had to rifle in hand and I did everything I could for about the first 24 hours to not shoot the gun and I couldn't take it anymore actually ,I couldn't take not sleeping anymore,, just a little excited,, the number 17 barrel didn't fit in the factory Paramount stock very well and if you look at the factory Paramount stock there's some little studs and a couple of other pieces of metal in the front of it that were I guess to quick connect a sling to. My plan is to put this in a marblewood stock of showed some pictures of that rifle on here it has the begara Remington clone with a number 17 Brux also ,18 twists this gun is going to go in a twin stock to that but it's going to take me a week or two to get that bedded and ready so in the meantime I've had the Paramount in the factory stock today doing a little shooting. The gun weighs i 13 lb and 4 oz with a super sniper fix 16 scope and vortex rings. This barrel is 18 twist also everything that I've put in it that's in the sleek bullet Target bullet genre has shot a hole,, I have the adjustable breech plug headspace for federal 209s they're burning very clean, just like the Omega barrel this barrel has a wonderful nitride finish very well done. I am shooting smokeless in this gun for the moment with age 4198 my goal for putting this gun together however is to hopefully take it to some matches when I retire in the future and shoot heavy loads with black horn at long distance, I hope to be shooting some of those heavy 4 to 500 grain jacketed bullets that I've been crowing about too. Woodman arms has a lot more aspects to this rifle again this is just a very simplified first prototype Mark sent me several other things to try which I will be and perhaps discussing more and I'm sure he would answer any questions for anyone too very excited I'll be sharing more I am going to go ahead I guess maybe and just post a picture of the flat bolt tip that he sent me although there's a slotted one coming soon and I might post a few groups again they're almost boringly accurate the way most smokeless muzzleloaders are. One other thing for you Paramount fans out there that Paramount stock with about 65 grains of 4198 and a 300 grain bullet is a Bone crusher,,, hopefully we'll be able to muzzle break the barrel soon and start shooting heavy bullets. Kind of hard for me personally to look at this gun as a Paramount anymore it's going to have a lot more versatility to me, now I may get around one day to shooting the blue spaceships in it too just for grins. Thanks Woodman arms and Mark , I love this country and muzzleloaders.