[Adam Helmer]

Ok, I am a Yard Sale person and last Saturday I found the ultimate deal, to wit:

I found a T/C Hawken .50 caliber Flintlock with factory rifled barrel and a T. Mansfield .50 Smoothbore barrel for $200. I peeled off the shickels and trotted home to see what I got. I had a tackle box of other goodies in with the deal.

Well, the mint T/C .50 rifled barrel shot great and the smoothbore shot patched roundball fine out to 75 yards with 75 grains of 2F Goex. I built a rifle box to accomodate the Hawken stock and both barrels. Oh, Wot a Country!

Adam