Here we have a Ron Scott version of a Kuchenreuter jaeger. The customer sent Mr. Scott the original rifle to have a copy made. The customer then had two rifles almost the same. It has a 29" .58cal.swamped barrel. I don't know the maker, and it doesn't matter a lot. They are all good. The lock is a Davis Trade lock that works pretty well to be as big as it is. Easy on flints and quick ignition. I shimmed the back of the flint(big 1x1-1/8" flints) with a thick piece of leather to get a better strike angle on the frizzen. More of a slicing action. 13.25" LOP. Because the original had no engraving, this rifle isn't engraved.
As usual, I had to work on it some. Mostly greasing the dry lock prior to test firing the rifle. While I was doing that, I heard something hit the floor. After looking around in the mess, I found a little piece of round rod. I discovered that for some reason the single trigger pin was in two pieces, and the hole in the wood was oversize. So, while it worked fine, it was loose and fell out. No idea why someone would do that, but it was an easy fix. I had some 1/8" music wire that was a perfect fit in the hole. I pushed out the other half of the pin and installed the new full length pin. To prevent a recurrence of the falling out, I put a piece of beeswax one the end and heated it to melting.
Also the vent hole had never been drilled out. It still had the tiny factory hole it it. Not always the fastest ignition. I suppose the previous owner(s) just used it that way. The blue around the vent hole was still intact and the pan wasn't burnt from shooting. I don't think it could have been shot much if at all. I drilled the vent to 1/16" prior to firing.
It is already sighted in. When I test fired it, I hit my round 8" gong 7 out of 9 times offhand at 50yds. using an estimated load and aiming point. The 2 misses were on me.
Until I can get some pictures of my own(my first try was out of focus), I am borrowing some from the ad.
Here is the original and copy.
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