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  1. pab1

    Flintlock GPR Grouse

    I use a heavier charge for big game but the light charge I use for small game has the same point of impact out to around 30 yards in my gun. Let us know how the light load works for you.
  2. pab1

    Flintlock GPR Grouse

    Not a dumb question at all. Feel free to ask any questions. It is a rifled barrel and I used a prb (patched round ball). I was using a .530" round ball with a .018" pillow ticking patch lubed with Trappers Pure Mink Oil over 40gr of 3F Goex. Some places require you to use shot for birds so...
  3. pab1

    Smoothbores....

    That can definitely be an issue. I've found that a head shot on a snowshoe hare with my .54 cal rifle loaded with a prb over 95 grains of 3F Goex I don't lose any meat. Even if my shot is off a bit, the big ball causes less bloodshot than some small bore guns. I'm also able to take big game with...
  4. pab1

    Sticks and Stones Camp Cooking

    I do enjoy it. :thumb:
  5. pab1

    Sticks and Stones Camp Cooking

    A few years back on a winter camp I smoked some deer meat on sticks. I started by building a willow frame and carving skewer sticks. I put the marinated deer meat on skewers. I covered the frame with a tarp. I used a foil pan for the smoldering wood. I already had a burn mark on the...
  6. pab1

    Sticks and Stones Camp Cooking

    Gotta clean that rock a bit before you cook on it. :thumb:
  7. pab1

    Sticks and Stones Camp Cooking

    On a winter camp in January of this year I brought along some brats and bannock bread mix. Originally I had planned to cook the brats and the bannock on sticks separately. As I was about to start cooking I came up with the idea of making pigs in a blanket instead. I started by cooking the brats...
  8. pab1

    Sticks and Stones Camp Cooking

    She was one of the best friends I ever had. She loved camping and obviously camp cooking. Unfortunately she has passed on.
  9. pab1

    Sticks and Stones Camp Cooking

    I've cooked a lot of hares over a fire and they were very good. Over cooking and too much heat can make any meat cooked over a fire tough. I try to cook them fairly slow, not too close to the embers. On this camp I shot a snowshoe hare for dinner and cooked it over the fire. When making my...
  10. pab1

    Sticks and Stones Camp Cooking

    Anyone else enjoy camp cooking using sticks and stones? Share your pics and/or techniques. Here are a couple sticks and stones meals I've done to start the thread off. Bannock bread cooked on a rock. Whitetail backstraps cooked on the same rock. Dinner is served! I carved two...
  11. pab1

    Acceptable nipple blow back ?

    As others have said, its normal to have some residue around the nipple. My son shot my percussion .56 smoothbore as it was getting dark after a recent grouse hunt. I filmed him shooting it and he sent me a still image from the video. I was a bit surprised by the amount of flash at the nipple...
  12. pab1

    Best Practices For Hunting Season

    I know it wasn't your question but if you haven't already been doing it, once you have a load worked up and your guns sighted in, do all of your practice loading out of your shooting bag (and shooting from field positions). Loading off the bench at the range with all your materials set out in...
  13. pab1

    Best Practices For Hunting Season

    If I don't encounter rain or wet, heavy snow when I'm out I leave my gun loaded. A couple years ago I did a post here on a flintlock, which due to unusual circumstances, I left loaded for 5 years. It fired without issue when I took it to the range. A similar situation happened with my percussion...
  14. pab1

    Flintlock GPR Grouse

    I installed a L&R lock in mine also. The factory lock was pretty reliable though. The main thing I didn't like about the factory lock was that it wouldn't hold priming powder in the pan unless the gun stayed fairly level. I also use RMC touch hole liners in mine. They are much better than the...
  15. pab1

    Flintlock GPR Grouse

    I took my .54 cal flintlock Great Plains Rifle out yesterday. I fired a few shots at 50 and 100 yards with 95gr of 3F Goex to make sure everything was good for deer/elk season. After that I loaded a prb over 40gr of 3F Goex and went looking for grouse. I hiked up high and flushed a blue...
  16. pab1

    Rabbit Hunt Cut Short

    I should add that the easy shot at a rabbit that I missed kept bugging me. By the time I'd finished trying to find help for the owl it was starting to get dark. I had to clean the gun when i got home so I decided to fire it to make sure I was on. I held on the rabbits eye when I shot so I drew...
  17. pab1

    Rabbit Hunt Cut Short

    I was out yesterday along a river bottom to hunt cottontails with my .32 cal Crockett pistol. It was pretty warm yesterday so I was killing time waiting for evening when the rabbits would start moving. There's a lone paper birch I always stop by at this location. They're not common here. I...
  18. pab1

    LYMAN GPR Users Unite and tell us your story

    Nice work on that full stock @LSB!
  19. pab1

    LYMAN GPR Users Unite and tell us your story

    There are slight differences in the height of the front sights depending on what rear sight I used. Three of them had been filed/sighted in. The third one down had not been sighted in/filed yet at the time I took that pic.
  20. pab1

    LYMAN GPR Users Unite and tell us your story

    Like others, I never cared for the factory sights on my GPRs. I replaced all of them. All of my GPRs (and my Plains Pistol) shoot well with a .530" ball and a .018" pillow ticking patch lubed with Trappers Pure Mink Oil. I use GPRs for both big and small game. I built the gun in the...
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