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  1. Travis186

    Barrel Harmonics or Technique?

    Fellas, the advice and conversation here has been more than appreciated.
  2. Travis186

    Barrel Harmonics or Technique?

    No. Now my capper is also a short barreled gun, but this leads me to believe even more it's technique and lockup time over barrel harmonics. It's going to be near impossible for me to get the same cheek weld and off the bags and rest as it would be in field positions, propped against a tree...
  3. Travis186

    Barrel Harmonics or Technique?

    I wasn't talking drop, just difference in POI from positions. The rifle off the bench is 3" high at 50 and about as much low at 100, it was perfect "equilibrium".
  4. Travis186

    Barrel Harmonics or Technique?

    I still wonder why I don't see this issue with unmentionables? Is it faster velocities and lock up times compensating for it? I will write this down and report back. My hope is that none of this is drastic enough to result in me not wanting to drag this rifle into the woods anymore. My thought...
  5. Travis186

    Barrel Harmonics or Technique?

    Once I get new front sights and get it dialed back in I will do just that. I just hope the change is not so dramatic when shooting off hand, sitting, prone as the rifle will still be in my hands much the same way, not like it is off of bags. I really want to punch a tag with this thing.....
  6. Travis186

    Barrel Harmonics or Technique?

    I sincerely want to believe it's harmonics and not my technique... but all my other flinters do it too. No windage, no group size change really (maybe better?), they just shoot significantly higher. I mean it could make sense... long whippy barrels, skinny stocks. In BPCR we rest our barrels on...
  7. Travis186

    Barrel Harmonics or Technique?

    I like this explanation and another experienced shooter I consider a mentor mentioned something similar. I've just never had this issue with unmentionables, but I guess it's an easy fix... sight the flinters in with the gun in my hands, not rested front and rear.
  8. Travis186

    Barrel Harmonics or Technique?

    I recently missed two deer with my Kibler Colonial 58. I was going for a high shoulder shot on both and I suspected I missed both of them high. After getting obliterated in a turkey shoot match with the rifle I finally figured out something was up, so off to the range I went, and to my surprise...
  9. Travis186

    Does anyone have a pic of powder in a pan?

    My Fusil and Kibler Colonial locks like just enough, 3-4 grs of so, and the position doesn't seem to matter. My L&R late english locks with the small pans how ever are MUCH more fussy. They need the touch hole picked, the pan wiped every time, and they want a decent amount of prime in the pan...
  10. Travis186

    12L14 barrel comes apart

    I hate to admit it, but we all make mistakes, and I short started a ball yesterday and touched it off without ramming it home in our turkey shoot. Heat of the moment, got distracted by some commotion going on next to me and made a bone headed mistake. The gun was fine, barrel wasn't bulged or...
  11. Travis186

    Two Feathers Knife

    Never fear! I am a hoarder and we'll be doing business again shortly once the holidays are over.
  12. Travis186

    Two Feathers Knife

    Well guys, I'm sorry for the picture of the unmentionable. I missed a monster buck Monday morning and a fat doe all within 5 minutes of each other with my Kibler Colonial 58. I was sitting about 25' up a long leaf pine with a tall oak tree providing cover behind me and they both snuck in behind...
  13. Travis186

    Sam Houston National Forest in Texas

    I hunt the Sam, although I won't be hunting front stuffer season this year as I drew a tag for another piece of public. Me and the group I hunt with are successful every year usually tagging out, but we are experienced and know how to hunt it. If you're used to traditional Texas style hunting of...
  14. Travis186

    Ffg vs fffg

    The gun may simply not like your choice in powder, but it also helps to know what charge weights you are using.
  15. Travis186

    FOR SALE WTS antique full stock Kentucky reduced

    Very interesting and beautiful rifle. I wish I knew more about it. I've seen the words "warranted" stamped on several lockplates before on Vintage caplocks with no other information available.
  16. Travis186

    FOR SALE WTS antique full stock Kentucky reduced

    Do you have any pics of the bore, and close up pics of the lock?
  17. Travis186

    NEW TC HAWKEN PROBLEM

    I guess I've never had a ball stuck so bad that the typical screw in jag couldn't pull it. Some of these methods seem very interesting.
  18. Travis186

    Flintlocks and manual transmissions

    I used to laugh at the term follow thru when it comes to unmentionables, even unmentionables that are powered by the holiest of holy black.... until I started shooting flinters.
  19. Travis186

    Pan Powder for Flintlock Rifle

    I've started using 4F as prime for range work, but I honestly can't tell the difference between it and 3F. 2F I might can feel a slight delay but even that's not concrete evidence.
  20. Travis186

    WITHDRAWN 40 Caliber Flintlock Trade Gun built by Ted Kramer

    Withdrawing this. Shot it again and decided I want to keep it.
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