Thread: Black powder percussion musket.

@Frogfeatures, you'll be doing plenty reloading now. Nice rifle. I assume it's at least as powerful than a .222 for use on DOC land. (<:

I just cast some 577 projectiles for a fun shoot hopefully coming up

Minie's and Lee REAL

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I just cast some 577 projectiles for a fun shoot hopefully coming up

Minie's and Lee REAL

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The flat nose Lee minnies on the left in your photo cast up very nicely and shot extremely well in my 2 Parker Hales. The REAL projectiles not so good.

Originally Posted by zimmer

The flat nose Lee minnies on the left in your photo cast up very nicely and shot extremely well in my 2 Parker Hales. The REAL projectiles not so good.

I know a guy with a heap of Parker Hale's and I cast these to lure him into getting them out and letting me run some shots through them
P53, P58 and some P61's
Hopefully I can twist his arm and get him to part with one

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I know a guy with a heap of Parker Hale's and I cast these to lure him into getting them out and letting me run some shots through them
P53, P58 and some P61's
Hopefully I can twist his arm and get him to part with one

In the very back of my safe and unfired for many years (no, not for sale) I have a PH P58 and a P61.

If chasing one the P58 Naval Rifle is the pick. Rifling is progressive depth, something that the non PH replicas didn't do, nor the P53s. And it certainly makes a difference to accuracy.

I would have difficulty now, with aged eyes, shooting the P61 Musketoon with its rear sight pretty dam close back on the barrel. The P61 was my choice though for bush hunting.

@zimmer the P61 is the one I like and he has multiples of that model
It looks like a handy bush stalking gun for hand to hand combat

I doubt he would part with the 53 or 58

Originally Posted by akaroa1

@zimmer the P61 is the one I like and he has multiples of that model
It looks like a handy bush stalking gun for hand to hand combat

I doubt he would part with the 53 or 58

The P61 is the first one I got and it shot very well. They came with a Sergeant's multi tool. If you twist arm, see if he has one for the rifle.

Originally Posted by Cordite

@Frogfeatures, you'll be doing plenty reloading now. Nice rifle. I assume it's at least as powerful than a .222 for use on DOC land. (<:

but she not rifled bud...so is classed as shotgun,therefore not legal......

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

but she not rifled bud...so is classed as shotgun,therefore not legal......

Not rifled makes it a musket

Then came the rifled musket. Which wasn't a musket at all

so if a fella can use a "musket" on land under docs control...he should be able to use a smoothbore or other type.....cause you can load up #7s and shoot pigeons wif your musket bro dont ya know????

You would use round balls and cotton patch for that one then and ffg powder and the large percussion caps great fun to shoot

Originally Posted by zimmer

The flat nose Lee minnies on the left in your photo cast up very nicely and shot extremely well in my 2 Parker Hales. The REAL projectiles not so good.

95%-meplat and 100% exposed lead. I have a repro medieval handgonne / pole-cannon shooting .58 cal, still haven't had the brass (!) to bring her to the range.

Photo not me:

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

but she not rifled bud...so is classed as shotgun,therefore not legal......

Dang! But doubt anyone would care. DOC does give SG permits though. Guess one would just have to undertake to DOC not to take long-range shots. (-:.

Now we know it's a musket, there were specially made bullets made for smoothbore muskets, the Nessler bullet, and the related Chase bullet made about the time of the civil war, to extend range further than the standard round ball. They are shorter than the typical Minie so their skirts make them more stable in flight without benefit of imparted spin. Actually many modern SG slugs look the same and those shorter, flatnosed Minies are in that direction.