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help! my trade gun shoots low!
Talk about civilian arms and you can find almost anything, including 30 shot repeating flinters built in 1750...in small numbers. The subject was smoothbore and in the massive numbers of military flint smoothbores that were used you have a long term standardized form of firearm that evolved to...- FlintGrendel
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help! my trade gun shoots low!
Not many really... There were some rare cases. But the bulk of production had no rear. For most purposes, including the majority of competitions available, you would want to try it the way most of the troops at Waterloo did. The Military muskets were designed for a purpose and designed...- FlintGrendel
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- Forum: Smoothbore
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help! my trade gun shoots low!
Cheek pressure, butt placement, and keeping the butt from slipping are all interesting factors... A couple hundred years of field use kinda made design of the flint smoothbore pretty effective. Your ability to estimate range based on the amount of barrel showing will prove to be a lot better...- FlintGrendel
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- Forum: Smoothbore