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.50 caliber AR muzzle loader

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4 Responses to “.50 caliber AR muzzle loader”

  1. SPQR Says:

    Why?

  2. Lyle Says:

    @SPQR; because it’s different, and because you wouldn’t have watched it if it was just another Hawken or a flintlock long rifle.

    It’s a bit silly. No apparent means of stowing a ram rod either.

    State game regs vary of course, but in WA State it would not be legal for muzzleloading season for at least two reasons. The primer is not “exposed to the environment” and it has a “sight containing glass” on it. It’d need to take a musket cap or plain percussion cap too, since primers designed for modern cartridges (209s) are also prohibited.

    Nor did I see a patch box, which I regard as mandatory. Some AR stocks have storage cavities, so what would work. It’s going to get corrosive black powder fouling, and sticky cap fouling, all throughout your AR lower. The best solvent for cap fouling, by far, is water, so you’ll want to give your lower a bath if you do much shooting with that rig. It’s fine that other people are doing such things and I wish them well, but no thankee.

    CVA and Traditions and others sell complete ML rifles for very little money, so it’s just about the cheapest route to getting into hunting that there is, short of a gift rifle or a used, single shot shotgun.

  3. Bill Twist Says:

    Meh. I have two flintlocks, a .54 caliber transitional long rifle, and a .62 caliber Baker Rifle.

    I also have a 3″ bore, 6 caliber black powder mortar.

    I win the caliber wars.

  4. SPQR Says:

    Lyle, exactly

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