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I got three cock birds today with my flint lock.
Nothing special, don't even know how much powder and shot I used! I just grabbed a cut cartridge case, 28g and used that adding more #7 shot.
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Britsmoothy said:
I got three cock birds today with my flint lock.
Nothing special, don't even know how much powder and shot I used! I just grabbed a cut cartridge case, 28g and used that adding more #7 shot.
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Brit,
Jesse kinda looks like he isn't interested in you getting the glory. You sure he didn't shoot them?
WTG
Larry
 
Brokennock said:
Powder must have been so fine your couldn't see it 😉


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It was like dust. I pricked the vent and dropped the powder. The prick was a long thorn. When I seated the thin cards and grease the thorn popped out and I heard half the powder spray out!

The next thorn I clamped with the frizzen!
 
Britsmoothy said:
I got three cock birds today with my flint lock.
Nothing special, don't even know how much powder and shot I used! I just grabbed a cut cartridge case, 28g and used that adding more #7 shot.
View attachment 353118
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Love it.

As a kid in upstate NY my buddies and I ‘hunted’ pheasants with whatever we had, slingshots, bows and arrows, then eventually graduated to some type of shotgun. We took our share of birds. I had not seen one in the wild in NYS for years until kicking one up while tracking a deer maybe four years ago. Stomping though the fields and woods of North and South Carolina for the past thirty years I have never flushed or seem one in the wild. Maybe I’m doing something wrong???

Glad you came across some birds and were successful.
 

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