Bob Hoyt .54 flintlock barrel

[bronko220002]

Earlier this year I had Mr. Hoyt make me a 32" .54 caliber flintlock barrel for my curly maple stock. I previously sighted it in but was concerned that the rear sight was too high so I took the front sight off and installed a lower one.
I took a guess and lowered the rear sight. My first shot at 25 yards hit the lower half of the bull using a 6:00 hold. After applying the orange sticky target dot I moved the target out to 50 yards and shot 3 more. These impacted about 2" above the 3" bull using the same 6 O'clock hold but grouped nicely shooting about as fast as I could load.
I lowered the rear sight some more and after letting the barrel cool took 3 more shots allowing a couple mins between each shot. These 3 printed inside an inch with shots #1 and #3 almost in the same hole. I was using a .530" ball and .018" pillow tick patch and Frontier Anti-rust lube pushed by 100 gr of Goex FFg powder.

 

[cayuga]

Very nice way to tune that rifle in. That should handle the job nice.

 

[52Bore]

Nothing wrong with that.
Glad to see Bobby still turning out good shooting barrels.

 

[JStanley]

Nice shooting! Show us the rifle pics.

 

[bronko220002]

There is the rifle pic. I added it to the original post.