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Thanks for clearing that up. I will be making one up and heading to the range next week! Thanks again!

Thanks for the reply. I am assuming that the center was a 2" black square with a white center? I want to reproduce one to try.

Does anyone have a picture of what a 19th century English target looks like (as would have been used in the long range matches shot with the Whitworth rifles). Specifically I am looking for the spacing of the scoring rings and diameter of the target itself. I am shooting old rifles at modern...

The idea for this came from another thread. We were discussing a bore being "too smooth". Some of the folks here including myself thought that this may be some sort of target shooters head game. Got me to thinking that it would be interesting to hear others "games" that they have used during...

I agree, sounds like head games/hokus pokus. I used to shoot service rifle matches many years aguo and I would always ring a little bell over my box of rounds as I was getting my position ready, to "scare the inaccuracy away", what it was really doing was causing the other shooters to the about...

There used to be a few black powder matches in the NH/VT area back in the 70's and 80's. Does anyone know if there are any still going on? I used to go to a match at Fort Ticonderoga way back when i was a kid, anyone know if this still happens? Thanks!

I remember this rifle. It had bright furniture, flats on top of the butt tang as well. As I remember there was a swell right behind the last ram rod barrel too. I almost think that the barrel was octagon and not round like a Bess.