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    Offhand Practice

    Also If you can't anchor it into your hip you can always anchor into the rib cage doesn't work as well but better than free willey....
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    Offhand Practice

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/82/1e/f4/821ef4c5b6c6da2ca55fbd179c75505d.jpg She has bone to bone contact. I have even done it hunting with an 06 hunting. Have dropped game at a full run brood side at 200 meters. In fact my German hunting test had 100 meter standing off hand running boar test...
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    Offhand Practice

    From shooting competition I've always been taught using bone to bone contact is alway more accurate than using muscle which is always the least and last method to use to shoot. That is why gun fit, balance, natural point of aim and consistency is so important because any of those out of whack it...
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    Making touch hole bigger

    You are correct I have had ignition problems due to external factors... ie flint, damp powder... etc. :bow:
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    Making touch hole bigger

    I also, am one who does not believe in enlarging a touch hole to "improve ignition". I'm an original owner of a of a 1976 T/C Hawken 50 Cal. and have never had an ignition problem. But within hours of shooting everytime, I've pumped hot soapy water in the barrel until it comes out clear through...
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    How far can a ball travel?

    It's actually quite complicated because the troposphere varies from almost 60,000 feet at the equator to 30,000 at the poles. At the equator 50% of the atmosphere is below 18,000 ft at the poles that drops to like 9,000 ft so every 1000 feet isn't the same. That's why a 15,000 ft thunderstorm...
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    How far can a ball travel?

    I figured it out I think thanks partially due to your (Zonie) web links, I only partially understood the formulas because my military aviation career I have a lazy understanding of things and I didn't understand why the better the ballistic coefficient the lower the angle the less the higher the...
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    How far can a ball travel?

    True, if you have ever hunted above 6,000 - 8,000 ft your bullet climbs like an 1.5" per thousand in altitude and it pays to shot at a range in your new hunting spot. I like watching some of the Alaskan hunting shows they live at sea level then climb up in altitude and miss game by shooting a...
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    Aqua fortis

    What do you mean artificial striping? How did you add striping beyond the wood?
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    How far can a ball travel?

    I believe in a perfect world a 45 degree angle is optimal but believe the dynamics of ballistics coefficient, sectional density derive the terminal velocity and add the pull of gravity play into the angle deviation above 45 degree... The higher the ballistic coefficient the closer you get to 45...
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    How far can a ball travel?

    Thank you for the calculator according to it with 70G of FFFg a 45 cal round ball 127 grains and ballistic coefficient of .064 should leave the barrel around 2100 feet per minute which according to the calculator optimal angle is 72 degrees and will travel for 1100 yards which is 3300 feet and...
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    Kiblers?

    I look at the Kibler kits but it's got a very short length of pull 13 5/8 for the Colonial and 13 3/4s for the Southern Mountain Rifle even the generic T/C Hawken has 14 1/2. I am 6'3" and have a 15 1/2 length of pull although I got 15 inch length of pull to compensate for heavy hunting jackets...
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    Looking for flint lock rifle

    TVM (http://www.tennesseevalleymuzzleloading.com/showroom) and TOW (https://www.trackofthewolf.com/List/Category.aspx/485) both have completed 54s
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    A flintlock hunting question

    If it's a custom barrel 44 rounds to 45. It's like a 38 special or a 380 is not a 38 bore but rather its bore measurement is .357 it is one of the few rounds that measured at the chamber instead of bore. But industry constantly rounds up and down at their convenience and .433 rounds to 45. I...
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