Hi,

I've been thinking for awhile now about the Pedersoli Mortimer rifle. Especially the target one with the peep sights. Anyone have any experience with them? I've heard good things about the rifle, but not seen one in person yet. I've shot and owned a few pedersoli products and I've been happy with their quality.

Thanks!

Chasseur,
I'm not completely sure of the details but I believe the Mortimer is made with slow or intermediate twist rifling suitable for either round balls or short bullets. If that's what you want, I suspect it is a very good rifle. If you want a long bullet rifle, for long range shooting, the Pedersoli Gibbs rifle has been getting good press from most people. I have yet to see one, so take this with a grain of salt. But I don't think you will be disappointed.

Brent

Ross Seyfried had a story on this rifle recently (in Rifle, I think it was).

He was extremely positive about it!

I have not seen one yet myself.

jpb

The closest I've come is handling one at the DGW outlet in Union City, a gorgeous rifle, pictures don't do it justice. Far prettier IMHO than the Lyman.

But prob'ly the Lyamn's a better buy, and the deer wont know the difference.

Birdwatcher

Thanks guys!

I'm looking for a English style flintlock rifle for round balls so it looks good to me. I'm just hesitant on buying a rifle I've never seen...

As others have mentioned Seyfried is pretty keen on the Pedersoli Mortimer and has mentioned in other articles before his recent full length feature. They certainly look very nicely appointed. IIRC the rifle accepts the smoothbore tube and the shotgun the rifle barrel if such flexibility interests you. You might call Track of the Wolf for their impressions. They sell one every so often and it doesn't seem to sit on the shelf very long. Good hunting! McB

the pedersoli mortimer is probably a pretty good comprimise between price and quality.. i have the shotgun, and dont use it anymore becouse i bought a better 16 gauge.. if you want a percussion you will have less troubles than with the flint.. the flints hammer radius isnt just right and that coupled with the small flint makes it a rock crusher.. the alrger military locks are what you want as you can lightly chip the flint edge with apiec of brass to get a new surface edge and its like new.. these well made flinlocks will get up to 50 rounds or more with descent sparking. the other problemw i have with pedersoli is that they make these guns in runs, as most gunmakers do.. but thier tollerences arent close enought to order parts and have them reliably fit.. they are made for that run and if you need factory parts your in for a big dissapointment.. i wrote thier service center n texas , and called many times and finaly they ansered me and said thatmy gun was out of warranty and they did not service guns (even with me paying) guns out of waranty.. a good kit will prbably cost about 300 dolars more than a pedersoli.. if you want ot see some qualit rifles go to http://www.flintlocks.com/ also you can look at the trackof the wolf.. .. if i were in your position i would by a lyman great planes 1 -66 twist in flint or percusion.. you will get parts without a problem, it will shoot as good, it will colst lest and if you like black powder you can start saving for a jim chambers rifle.. they have the large locks, swamped barrel, etc, very fine guns. i have been on muzzleloading list for 15 years and the most accepted beginners(inexpensive) gun is the great planes. good luck dave..

Thanks for the feedback.



In particular Dave, thanks for the details of the problems with the mortimer's lock. I've owned a few of their guns in the past, and the Bess worked great, but the "kentucky pistol" had many of the problems that you mentioned.



I've shot front suffers for more than 10 years now, and I prefer flintlocks. I'm interested in a Plains rifle, even though I was looking for an English style rifle. What I was thinking was get the Plains Rifle as a kit and rework the stock a bit to make more of the English "shotgun style" and might play arround with some of the parts too.



Dave: how are the locks on the Lyman rifle? I've had some good luck with L&Rs, are the Lyman flints pretty good?



Thanks!