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Booshway |
Flintlock Rifles & Smoothbores Hunt Like The Settlers | |||
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Booshway |
sure dan , no problem the charge is was 80 grains of 2F under a 1/2 inch horse hair wad , half of which is soaked in a mix of bee's wax and Windex. 1 1/2 oz of #71/2 shot and an over the shot card . as i said , nothing special but for the different size of shot column to powder .. Now in my 20 gage SXS that load doesn’t work well . It likes 70 grains of 2F. The wad is replaced with 2 , 1/8 inch over the powder cards . The 2nd card I soften with spit . Then I add in 1 ¼ oz of shot . Now in my .410 , it doesn’t like either of the above . For that its 1oz of shot , a hard wad , 2 over the powder cards and 40 grains of 3F . Now that’s not to say that every one of my smooth bores I have gotten great patterns from . . Some I never did . one of the great things about the writings of the likes of Greener , Walsh , Rigby and the others is that they often go into or at least record the loads .. take the link i posted. time and time again greener is mentioning that with the larger bores he isnt able to pattern correctly, even with a choked bore , because the FIELD trials do not allow the use of what he considered a proper load for the larger bores with or without a choke . however later in the book we read that once aloud to move outside the rules book , thats when the larger bores started to truly pattern as well as the smaller boresThis message has been edited. Last edited by: captchee, | |||
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Booshway |
round ball , i posted you a link , my advice to you would be to start gathering information , draw your own conclusions and start from there. If you don’t accept it , ha that’s up to you The only thing I would add is that today appears to be no different then 200 years ago . Every gun is different , they all like different things . Also despite what some think as quality of a gun , it would appear that quality is in the eye of the beholder. If that wasn’t the case then you would see a mile long list of all different makers being tied up in those old scoring sheets . But that’s not the case now is it Good day to you sir | |||
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Hivernant |
Thanks Captchee! Currently starting to Working up loads for a flint 38" cyl 10 ga. In the past I have found working up loads for a rifle was easier. Thanks again....dan | |||
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Booshway |
your welcome and yes i would have to agree with that statement | |||
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Greenhorn |
I didn't see where anyone mentioned the article Mike Nesbitt did in ML a few years back where he discussed Ox Yoke as well as wads made from leather and wool blankets (and how to grease them). He included punch sizes for different gauges. Another time he also did an article on encapsulating your shot in paper cups for a faster reload. YK | |||
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