Nice work mate, very nice muzzleloader
Nice work mate, very nice muzzleloader
Shit thats cool!
congrats mate
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i will never show my wife this link!
her history's from cherokee down arkansas way.
my safe is full (and not tall enough) but bloody hell i want to try it !
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berg243...you CAN do that...there have been BP substitutes around for years that make life much less messy....
SOOOO Cool! I love the rifle and scope set up.
Well done on the hunting. Nice wee head on the stag and lovely fat piggy. Some good chewing there.
"The generalist hunter and angler is a well-fed mofo" - Steven Rinella
Well in the pursuit of field hunting ability
I have done some extended range work using Triple 7 instead of Black Powder
Its a lot cleaner and will be easier to look after in the field for extended trips.
Black Powder is fine at home when you can boil the kettle and do it in the luxury of your kitchen
Its a different story in a tent in the rain and at altitude etc
I also have moved up to using my 395 Grain Lyman Plains cast bullets.
They don't seem to go "off aim" the same as the 320 Grain Lee Real bullets as the barrel fouls.
I'm keeping the range sessions to only a few rounds each time to replicate field hunting conditions
2 or 3 shots at game animals in a day would be a lot of shots.
The best way to work out a range chart was to just keep shifting the target back
50m range and adjusted to be 25mm high
75m range is 25mm low
100m range is 100mm low
Will have to have a session to look at the 125m and 150m drops ( for just in case ).
Actually the drop is way better than I was expecting !
So elevation is locked down and I have given it a little tweak to the left because the 395s have been a little right of the previous 320s point of impact.
So now I still have to get some spare parts sorted and fine tune the contents of my "Possibles bag" which holds all the things you use when hunting.
Get together a camp kit bag for more major servicing and hot water cleaning.
And go chase a bull tahr and chamois
That's a great looking setup! I love shooting and hunting period correct muzzleloaders. Way more challenging/frustrating than with a modern inline, but the reward is so much better.
Last edited by Tasbay; 08-03-2019 at 07:55 AM.
Cheers @Tasbay that was a good solution to the practice shooting and small game load.
40 grains Triple 7 FFFG and the 175 grain round balls are basically in the same location at 50m as my 395 grain conical's
Grouping nicely and man its gentle on the shoulder
I'm sure a rabbit or hare won't have a clue how much slower its going when it hits them !
Well greased patches were almost intact and the lesser greased ones were still fairly ripped, but it didn't seem to affect where they landed.
Half the lead, half the powder a fraction of the recoil !!
Nice
What type of patch material are you using? (try ticking from a draper). What lube are you using on your patches? (try olive oil). Also 777 burns hotter than Black and could be part of your problem, I`d go back to BP for round ball and 777 for Conical. Using Black powder I always wipe the barrel between shots with a spit patch then a dry patch. After loading I now wipe the bore once more with a dry patch down to the ball, I do this to get the gun shooting from as clean a barrel as possible every time. Muzzleloaders are known for throwing the first shot or two. Now we just have to get you making your own powder!!!
@Tasbay
0.014 cotton patch with wet wax lube.
I still have plenty of black powder and yes will continue to use it around the farm on hares and rabbits and practice.
I between shots spit patch it to avoid any lurking sparks and get that shot to shot consistency
777 with the 395s for field use as its very easy to clean up at the end of the day.
I'm just happy that they are arriving at the same general location and that the grouping is very good
Now a gong needs to go up in a handy tree and the balls will hopefully be ringing that from standing field positions
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