____hoot____
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- Nov 27, 2006
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Got bit by the black powder bug years ago and bought bought bought, but lately am thinking of getting rid of my three .50 caliber rifles and just keeping my old .45 caliber "cheap"[think I paid $65 for it new in 1986] spanish CVA Blazer "boy's rifle". At less than 4.3 pounds it is what I really want to reach for if I want to go hunting, sure beats carrying the eight pound monsters the bp industry keeps turning out. The short stock sure fits a hellofa lot better with the heavy clothes needed durring the BP season here in Michigan too. I never saw another of these mini rifles and don't think they made very many of them. Not much bigger than one of those Chipmunk 22's. Has anyone else had any experience with them? Had some stock cracking with heavier loads at the rear of the barrel, so now I use 158 grain sabots in front of 60 grains of fxxx bp for, I'm guessing, around 1725 fps and good groups. Should be in league with the 357 Remington Maximum. The only buck I shot with it, at 40 yards dropped in it's tracks as the bullet broke ribs going in, took out the bottom spurs of the spine and broke ribs going out. As a poorboy hunter here in Michigan I have to go into the thickets to get my deer, and though I dream of "beanfield" shots, not many will ever present themselves on public property, where I have to hunt. Out of 23 deer I have killed in 42 years of hunting, only one has been much beyond a hundred yards; the average around 40 yards. Would think of buying a "better" higher quality still hunting rifle, but I have never heard of anything under 6 pounds.