Back to the rl morris 45 underhammer

[Plastikosmd]

Prior post here back in 2014
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/load-work-up.756136/#post-9535001
Time flys.
I hadn’t tried FFG as of yet so I experimented today w 90, 95 g. next up 100. Didn’t do great, groups were about 1.25” at 100.

figured I would at least post some pics of the gun and loading etc

this is an underhammer, sealed ignition 45lb or so rifle. Not my heaviest, (that would be an 80lb monster.)

this is a 3 barrel, 2 action set
Underhammer:
45 RB(pictured)
62 RB
.485 slug gun
Flintlock:
52 RB

Anyway, the 45 at the home range:

 

[Plastikosmd]

Barrel diameter, I can’t remember the length but it is some work to lift off the bench

box that holds barrel and false muzzle

how action keys to barrel

 

[Plastikosmd]

Foot

sealed ignition, nipple is inside, note 1/2 threads and hammer


Loading the cap

1/2 turn and it is ready to fire, note firing pin

 

[Plastikosmd]

Loading
(First lift the damn thing!)

use false muzzle, note blue reminder restraint



powder via drop tube

 

[Plastikosmd]

Load patch and ball, 2 short starters, mallet required

 

[Plastikosmd]

Ram it home, lift the bugger again, load cap, (noted above ) and fire!

some obligatory pics
Beautiful wood

Nice machining of rear sight dovetail, pattern is cool

 

[woodnbow]

Recoil is not an issue... beautiful workmanship there! Just wow!

 

[Plastikosmd]

Ya,less than a 22 at 95 grains
The 62 pet load is 145 IIRC, still nada
The 80lb gun is 300+ grains and a 1600gr slug. That one moves you

 

[Flintshooter]

The main interest of my first mentor in muzzleloading was round ball bench gun. He shot at Friendship for the last time in 1958 and moved out of state not too long after I met him. He was my father’s brother in law’s brother.
When he passed away uncle Porter drove down to Maryville, TN and loaded up a bunch of “stuff” for his son in law to try to sell at Friendship. Among the things that made it to Indiana was a Resor (I think - it was a well known maker at any extent) rifle, but the false muzzle, dies, and everything else stayed behind. The son in law and I stopped just short of begging to drive down and get needed things that Porter should have brought along but he refused.
One thing he did bring I was glad about because I am able to say I’ve seen and handled one is one of the only 25 cap and ball revolvers that Bob Tingle ever made.

 

[Plastikosmd]

Odd coincidence,
My 80 pound gone was built by a man named Breisen. A famous shooter in the day and also well known to the friendship crowd. He built his gun, around the left over tooling from a Resnor as the fun had gone missing. It seems these guns had a way of separating themselves from their parts!

I also have a round ball Resnor that apparently had a slug gun barrel matched to it at one time but that has gone missing.

I also may be spelling the name wrong, when I get back I will look and see.

 

[Flintshooter]

Odd coincidence,
My 80 pound gone was built by a man named Breisen. A famous shooter in the day and also well known to the friendship crowd. He built his gun, around the left over tooling from a Resnor as the fun had gone missing. It seems these guns had a way of separating themselves from their parts!

I also have a round ball Resnor that apparently had a slug gun barrel matched to it at one time but that has gone missing.

I also may be spelling the name wrong, when I get back I will look and see.

And now that you mention Breisen I’m not sure that wasn’t the name on Mack’s rifle. At the time, 94-95 there was an ad in Muzzle Blast from the builder’s son wanting pictures of rifles his father had built. He came to Jay’s camp just to get pictures of it.

 

[Suon]

that is so cool.