Search results

You must have little kids. That's a good one. I don't know how you will ever get a snickers bar out of there.

I sure do... as a smooth bore. 10 gauge/78 caliber is my choice. I can kind of see a 68 caliber rifle for some game like grizzly bear, or maybe some of dangerous game in Africa like Cape buffalo. For the most part though, anyone shooting a 68 or bigger caliber is probably doing close range...

Fg Goex Olde Eynsford. I hadn't shot all of August, and when I took it out last weekend for goose season, my plug was loose. It was loose enough it could fall out under gravity. I've had this horn for 2-3 years, and the plug was always tight, I'm not sure what happened. Apparently the dry...

I would never consider 50 or 54 caliber a large bore. I consider 63+ cal to be large bore. 45 to 62 is medium size. I have no idea what my favorite large bore rifle would be. I don't see much point in a large bore rifle. That's smoothbore territory.

For your purposes, a 20 gauge would suffice with lead. They will hold a good enough pattern at 20 yards for turkey, and even 25 yards with the right combo. For big game, I'm going to assume you would be using a round ball. A 20 is definitely enough for upland game and small game. With non-toxic...

This is not true, or at least so far exaggerated to be false. You might not be too far off with 30 grains producing 600 fps. At 50 grains, you would likely be north of 1000 fps. At 70 grains, you are probably north of 1200 fps. This is based on actual chronograph testing with a muzzleloading...

Ok, I have to know. What compels you to load 63 and 68 grains? Why would you not load 60 and 65 grains?

I'm sure there is, but look at how really low the pressures are. People like to compare to modern shotguns, but when a comparable blackpowder load is only doing 2,000 psi, it's hard to compare as far as safety. That's more comparable to a modern air rifle, than a modern smokeless powder shotgun...

I wouldn't consider the others either. The only one I might consider is Missouri, and that's a special case. It's amazing that people point this out every month or so, and nothing ever happens to a plain, out in the open, error.

For squirrel, it doesn't really matter that much. I mostly shoot #5, so that is what I use on squirrel. It normally passes completely through. I don't use either shot type you mention anymore. Lawrence or Westcoast Magnum shot is the only thing I buy. There is no good place to buy shot anymore...

Those first two numbers are comparing a 10" to a 26" barrel. That's a pistol vs a rifle. I was surprised there wasn't a bigger difference. Then 1200 to 1250 fps, come on man. That is next to zero change. Go from 32" to 42", and the difference might not even be that much. No, 50 fps is nothing...

That's burning powder. There's lots of solids in blackpowder, that's why it smokes, and why it leaves fouling in the bore. Unburned powder, is unburned powder. There is a theory that you shoot over a white blanket, or snow, and you work up in powder until you see black particles on the snow. Of...

It is a good question, and nobody has a good answer. The velocity thing, we can never prove. Even if someone came up with genuine 18th century powder to shoot, you can always argue the resulting 200+ years have certainly effected its performance. The powders we have today are fantastic. There...

Personally from what I've seen of them, I'd have no problem shooting up to 1 5/8 oz loads, maybe 120 grains of powder. Realistically the only reason you would want to go that heavy on shot would be turkey, and you'd be better off around 100 gr or less powder at that point. 1 3/8 oz is a pretty...

Are you sure on the caliber? I don't know anything about his rifle, but from what I know of Daniel Boone, he seemed more of a squirrel hunter than anything. I'd think 36 caliber would be more inline with his uses. I could be completely wrong.

That depends on what people consider so-so. I'd rather have 10 Thompson Center's, than 1 custom built rifle. I might be tempted to trade it all for 1 custom built sxs flintlock shotgun.

I've read about electric ignited muzzleloaders, but it has been many years now since I last saw anyone try. It always ends up as an impractical, questionable reliability failure. These are not static discharge at all, these were battery powered. I'm pretty sure Larry Pletcher did a lot of his...

Update today, I pulled the barrel with no problems. The tang, and breech end up to about 12" of the barrel is bedded beautifully. The muzzle end and back about 6" are also bedded beautifully. The middle section has some spots here and there that were not touched, apparently I did not add enough...

Oh, you are talking about the finish? No, that is not unusual at all. If anything, that bore looks smoother than a lot of modern shotgun barrels. Heck, it looks better than a lot of rifle barrels.

I only have a mini update today, hopefully a picture tomorrow. I had intended to bed the barrel this week, but got swamped with work and other tasks. I went to do it yesterday, and realized I had not accounted for the dovetails on the bottom of the barrel for the lugs. I then bought some putty...