Canoe gun results

[Greenmtnboy]

I got a canoe gun in a trade at Nationals this summer here in Creed CO.
It's very nice with acid etching on the barrel and lock.
It was never fired and I think a show piece.
With Coyote Joes help I jug choked it modified, put in a vent liner and new sites.
We also tuned the (loose and rusty) L&R lock (what a piece of manure!)
I sat down finally on Mon and got that bugger shot in.

Round ball specs
50yrds
.610 RB with a .015 texas patch and 60 grns of ffg Goex. No over powder wad, shot with a wet patch, one part Ballistol one part Murphy oil soap six parts water... five shots.


Shot specs
40yrds
70 grns of ffg Goex with two over powder cards and one ounce of # six shot and one over shot card cut in half( stays in the barrel better when hunting) and It's dosen't effect my pattern.

 

[poordevil]

There you go! :thumbsup:

 

[Stumpkiller]

That 'oughta bring down a passel 'o canoes!

Looks like a handy little brush gun.

 

[BrownBear]

Shoot. Call it a barn gun and the purists won't be fitting your for a saddle so they can ride you. :rotf:

Ain't never seen a historic reference to a canoe gun or a barn gun, but the purists get their panties into a real bunch about canoe guns, even as they strut their barn guns. :bull:

 

[August West]

Shoot. Call it a barn gun and the purists won't be fitting your for a saddle so they can ride you. :rotf:

Ain't never seen a historic reference to a canoe gun or a barn gun, but the purists get their panties into a real bunch about canoe guns, even as they strut their barn guns. :bull:

I have seen a whole lot of cut down original guns, as for original barn guns. It is a little hard for me to believe that anyone in the time period we discuss here, would leave a loaded gun out in the barn. Chris

 

[August West]

.It was never fired and I think a show piece.
With Coyote Joes help I jug choked it modified, .
.

Great looking gun and looks like it shoots as well as it looks.

Not wanting to hijack but how hard was the jug choking to do yourself?

 

[buzz]

caneo or barn gun i think are just terms one uses to id a cut down gun nothing more
at least that is my take
nice shooter

 

[Sharps1863]

I myself had rather have a short rifle than a long barreled one any day. The area I hunt in runs from small meadows to lite sparsely treed forest to thick brush. Taking a long barreled Fowler through that thick brush is a chore. I like the barn gun canoe gun or what ever you want to call it.
My :hatsoff: to you for a very nice rifle.

 

[Snow on the Roof]

That's a fine little arm GB, you even have the lock on the proper side :haha: . For the life of me I don't understand how you shoot so well...maybe that thin mountain air? I might be able to acheive that group at 25 but not 50 yards. It certainly has nothing to do with the fact that I am perhaps 20 years your senior.

Snow

 

[himem777]

What is the barrel length on that gun? Just curious.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Nice shoot'n, handy tool you got there.

Brits :thumbsup:

 

[rafterob]

From personal experience I can tell you shot does a real number on a fiberglass canoe :redface:

 

[flattail]

Snow on the roof, if GMBoy's given name is Nathan, I can tell you he is a real shooter. Olympic caliber, you might say. :bow: Not only that, he shoots a lot! Glad he got that SB working well. Now he will be looking for another smokepole to play with!! :rotf:
Ed

 

[CoyoteJoe]

Yep Ed, that's our Nathan and believe me, he has plenty of smokepoles to play with. :haha:

 

[Greenmtnboy]

That's a fine little arm GB, you even have the lock on the proper side :haha: . For the life of me I don't understand how you shoot so well...maybe that thin mountain air? I might be able to acheive that group at 25 but not 50 yards. It certainly has nothing to do with the fact that I am perhaps 20 years your senior.

Snow

Nope only ten years older
:haha:

 

[Greenmtnboy]

What is the barrel length on that gun? Just curious.

24 inches

 

[Greenmtnboy]

Snow on the roof, if GMBoy's given name is Nathan, I can tell you he is a real shooter. Olympic caliber, you might say. :bow: Not only that, he shoots a lot! Glad he got that SB working well. Now he will be looking for another smokepole to play with!! :rotf:
Ed

Morning brother,
I wondered if I was ever going to run into you via email or on this forum.
Ed I took this picture this fall wile elk hunting just for you.
Remember that knife I got off you this summer?
Well I put a patina on it and skinned out my elk and deer and several grouse so far this fall.
On of the BEST! pieces of steel I have EVER! carried.
:bow: :bow:
Glad to see ya on the forum brother!
Nathan

 

[Greenmtnboy]

Yep Ed, that's our Nathan and believe me, he has plenty of smokepoles to play with. :haha:

Almost to many.
:haha:

 

[Greenmtnboy]

.It was never fired and I think a show piece.
With Coyote Joes help I jug choked it modified, .
.

Great looking gun and looks like it shoots as well as it looks.

Not wanting to hijack but how hard was the jug choking to do yourself?

Time consuming but not hard, thanks to Coyote Joe's choke cutting tool.

 

[Greenmtnboy]

Shoot. Call it a barn gun and the purists won't be fitting your for a saddle so they can ride you. :rotf:

Ain't never seen a historic reference to a canoe gun or a barn gun, but the purists get their panties into a real bunch about canoe guns, even as they strut their barn guns. :bull:

Morning Brown Bear,
Has winter hit in the Wrangles yet?
How was yer meat season?
I hear ya about the knicker twisted P.C.ers but you know who I worry about making happy :haha:
I'm not a real big fan of short muzzleloaders but I have a feeling that this little smoothbore will be taking it's fair share of deer and chickens on the Yaak river via canoe once I get moved and settled in to North western Montucky.
:hatsoff: