50 and 100 yd accuracy

[Bent Sight]

That's a good idea Boomer. I am going to try that idea.

 

[Gotspark]

When everything is dialed in, you should be able to obtain a 2 to 3 inch group at 100yds on a good day with no wind from a bench.

Agreed, with the help of Dutch Schoultz I did just this...

 

[Rifleman1776]

I want to learn how to shoot like Daniel Day Lewis a.k.a. Hawkeye in, "Last Of The Mohicans," or Mel Gibson in, "The Patriot."

Hire an agent and get a part in the movies. :rotf:

 

[Mulebrain]

IF the rifle can't be accurate when shooting bench rest, there is no hope in the world to do better shooting off hand.
Dutch Schoultz

You aint kidding, there are so many variables at play in regards to achieving accuracy
Just ordered your system to review it

I also recommend Bob's Black Powder Notebook, which has a wealth of information
http://home.insightbb.com/~bspen/

 

[MSW]

Already purchased Dutch's ebook, great information that helped me get up to speed as I knew nothing about M/L methods. I notice your from SE VT , I occasionally motorcycle travel to Brattleboro , and Hogback Mt are you near either of these areas ?

yes, i'm just off of Vt Rt 9, which connects Brattleboro to the ski areas (via Hogback Mountain) … just take a soft right at that place where the lame horse used to stand, then go to where the big manure pile once was and you can't miss it... ayup

 

[nanuk-O-dah-Nort]

I never shoot for groups!
And I never hunt with a clean barrel.
I always foul the bore, then load and go hunting and I only care about the first and second shots I’ll never take a third

 

[TMan51]

There are few advantages to older eyes as far as I can see, (pun intended), but I spend a lot of my retired time shooting both firearms and bows. Moving the rear sight closer to my eyes has helped, and a while back I installed peep sights on anything without a scope. My eyes are not great, but I can still bust an egg regularly shooting offhand with an AR with a relatively short sight radius.

This one works well on my TOTW mountain rifle: https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/883/2/RS-DP-GRS

I also found that I shot poorly aiming at anything but a white spot on a black field, (the best for my eyes), or a black spot on a white field. Even with my scoped rifles and shotguns, the red Redfield type targets are difficult to have a good image. If you can't aim at the same spot, arrows and bullets go where you pointed them as good as ever, but the eyes are not letting you get a proper sight image.

So much for the "Golden Years", but I'm not ready for a dirt nap yet.

Be interested to know if others have found peep sights that look OK on a quality muzzleloader build.

 

[jimeckersley]

MSW and Others.
Thank you all for your continued recommendations of my apparently controversial "System".

Most of my happy subscribers are only using the peripheral odds and ends of information.
The stronger recommender ,I believe, are those who bothered enough to explore the central core of my thoughts which are concerned with getting their patching as exactly right as possible. .
In that practice lies getting your rifle to hit exactly where it is aimed when free of your own swaying about,

IF the rifle can't be accurate when shooting bench rest, there is no hope in the world to do better shooting off hand.

All my rifles shot 6 to 8n inch Groups (?) out of the box.. It took about two years of fussing about to bring it down to where It shot 5 shot groups, bench rest on a light windy day that grouped small enough to cover the group with a nickel. .

I learned how to control all the variables except that of wind conditions.

I was amazed at how acute these old style rifles could be made to perform..
I won't be around a whole hell of a lot longer but I hope there are enough folks out there who employ the entire system to keep the sport alive and well long after i'm gone.

Dutch Schoultz

I was an early adopter of Dutch Schoultz's system.It helped to provide consistency from shot to shot. That wasprobably 15 or more years ago when I was just moving beyond making the danged thing go bang with each trigger pull. His system made me a serious competitor.

Another important thing I learned early in muzzleloader shooting. Most people don't want to be coached unless they ask first. I don't enjoy watching a new shooter struggle. But, they either ask for help or give permission to be helped.