armi Jager Kentucky .45

[Peter Dunkley]

Hi I have been looking at one of these muzzle loaders. It looks as if he barrel cant be easily removed for cleaning. So how do you clean the barrel please.

[Peter Dunkley]

Hi anyone know offhand the legality of keeping a .45 percussion smoothbore rifle with a 28 inch barrel on a shotgun licence please. I am sure I can find the legislation if I care to wade through yards of bumf. hoping someone will know!

[DesG]

Perfectly legal. They shoot well at twenty five yards as well. A number of club members have them as it's so much easier than getting a variation on a FAC. I have a flintlock Baker (rifle) AKA Sharpe rifle smoothbore in .6" held on SGC.

It is legal to shoot single ball through it as well although opinions differ!

[Peter Dunkley]

Thanks for that .There are some balls available with the gun.

[steve medlock]

I have a couple of these on SGC and so can be shot 'off range' . They can be great fun to shoot at shorter ranges as long as you don't expect too much accuracy. Just clean out the barrel with a jag and wet patch and then wire brush when the patches start to look a bit cleaner. Remove nipple each time and clean that and the communication. You can put a tube on the nipple and pour boiling water down the barrel but there really isn't the need for that.

Steve.

[Peter Dunkley]

Hi. the balls which come with the gun are cast and a bit rough. Also the seem they will be a very tight fit. I have not miked them up! do you not use patches with this bore ".45" ? also what is your loading sequence. I have seen utubes of powder then ball then wad. Others load powder wad then ball. I do shoot a lot of black powder but 12g cartridge , this will be my first rifle.