silent sniper
40 Cal.
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- Jul 29, 2008
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Well I went up to the Log Cabin last week and picked out my chistmas present. A very nice " like new" traditions 12 guage single barrel smoothbore. The only thing is it didnt have a butt plate and had a chip out of stock by butt. But for 160 bucks I couldnt pass it up. So christmas day i had to go try it out. The only problem christmas morning was my sister opening a present that I see is a beautiful 50 cal hatfield caplock rifle ! Dang girl :rotf: I went out and tried my new toy. I shot it a couple times then went out to try to find a squirrel. my load was 70 grains FF,OP wad,90 grains shot, OS wad. Well as soon as I entered the woods I saw a fox squirrel. I ran over and got ready to shoot. I used my new rangefinder and ranged it at 19 yard. I aimed at the squirrel and shot, the squirrel sat there and i saw a bunch of bark blow off the tree a foot below the squirrel. I shot again with the same results. Well I knew my pattern was low so I aimed a foot over the squirrel and shot. This time it dropped dead. So I went back to the house to fix my pattern. I tried 80 grains FF,OP wad,80 grains shot,OS wad and was happy to see that it brought my patterns right up. So then I went and grabbed my rabbit dog and went to find a rabbit. It wasnt long before i jumped one in a little 5 yard wide fence row. the rabbit ran up the right side. The dog went after it. All of a sudden here the rabbit is on the left side coming right back towards me ! I got ready. The rabbit was coming right at me. Then it cut to the right and tried to sneek past me. Thats when the shot rolled it at 5 yards away. :rotf: The rabbit was laying less then 5 feet from where I originally jumped it. As I walked in the bush I jumped another rabbit less then 2 feet from the first one ! The dog quickly picked up its track. As I frantically tried to reload I saw the second rabbit sneek past on the same trail a meer 5 yards away.But I was content with what I had and decided I would save the other one for another day..when I am hopefully packing the pistol :haha: . I called the dog off and we went home. I really like this shotgun. It is really light and fast handling. I shot a few round balls out of it and it shoots 6 inches high at 25 yards. but with some compensating it will make a good deer gun if I do decide to use it. It would be a good close range gun. It patterns very nicely with shot also. I will do some more work with the loads and see wat I find. But im content for wat im gonna use it for. It is my first single barrel smoothbore and it sure wont be my last. I really like how they handle. I already borrowed my grandpas dixie 28 guage smoothie and smoothbore pistol to play with this week and work loads up for them. Plus hopefully I can get a squirrel or rabbit while I'm at it. My future plans might have to include getting a 20 guage tull de chase flinter now. :haha: cheers and happy holidays SS.
