Brits', thanks for the reply. Do you or friends use single barrel smoothbores or double guns?
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Brits', thanks for the reply. Do you or friends use single barrel smoothbores or double guns?
I have both but in all honesty I use my single barrels most. And flint lock at that.
Brits', I'm partial to the single tubes myself. Responding to your first comment, I do have a shooting bag. I hope to get out next week to burn some black and have some fun.
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Cpl.A, this is a bit late but thanks for web site. I had not seen that one before. Thanks again.
Can a 28 gauge (.54) shoot 1 oz of shot?
Smokey Plainsman, 3/4 ounce over 55 grains of powder is listed as a heavy load for a 28 gauge. I'll let someone else reply about a one ounce load. I've never shot that load and do not recommend going over listed heavy loads. A one ounce muzzleloading load is getting into a 16 gauge.
A one ounce load of shot weighs 437.5 grains.
While .54 rifles can shoot slugs that weigh that much, they have much thicker barrels to take the high pressures these heavy slugs create.
With a shotguns thinner barrel wall, I sure wouldn't be loading something that weighs that much in my 28 guage if I had one.
Interesting. I assume the Traditions .54 blunderbuss has more of a shotgun profile bbl?
about an astounding 58 years ago i remember sending about $12 to DGW for one on these kits. Was quite an adventure at 12.
I remember these ads well, as a teenager but I had no experience in BP and no one who knew anything about it. 60 years ago I bet you had a real adventure with that gun. Times were very different then. I had a buddy bought a gun magazine in the 60's because he thought the cover said "Guns of Black Powder". He gave it to me read about BP. But he read the cover wrong. It actually said "Guns of Black Power". It didn't help us get started in BP, lol.
I finished it but the tang broke off due to a casting flaw. I took it to a "gunsmith" who charged me $10 to fix it. Never gave me a quote but said it wouldn't t be much. Right. His "fix" consisted of grinding off the tang completely and cobbling up crude "L" shaped replacement. The coup de gras was installing it by 2 drilling holes completely thru what was left of plug. Still makes me mad 58 years later. When i complained he replied "its a junk wallhanger anyway --you wern't really gonna shoot it right??" !!!!!
I can understand you being upset. I think anyone would have been. Unfortunately you were probably not the last person screwed over by that "gunsmith". Do you still have it? If so a real gunsmith might be able to resurrect it.
arcticap
54 Cal.
I have loaded my 28 ga. with 90 grains of powder and a 100 grains setting for shot.
100 grains of shot is equivalent to ~1 3/8's ozs. of shot.
I loaded with Pyrodex, used compressed newspaper and cotton balls as wadding and also experimented with modern plastic wads.
For comparison, modern high brass Winchester 28 ga. hunting shotshells contain 1 oz. of #8 shot and have an advertised velocity of 1205 FPS.
POWDER MEASURE SETTINGS TO THROW OUNCES OF SHOT:
50 grain setting = 3/4 ounce of shot
60 grain setting = 7/8 ounce of shot
70 grain setting = 1 ounce of shot
80 grain setting = 1 1/8 ounce of shot
90 grain setting = 1 1/4 ounce of shot
100 grain setting = 1 3/8 ounce of shot
110 grain setting = 1 1/2 ounce of shot
120 grain setting = 1 5/8 ounce of shot
Here are a few equal volume loads:
oz. shot-----Dr. powder-------Grains
3/4-------------2--------------55
7/8-------------2 1/4----------62
1---------------2 1/2----------68
1 1/8-----------2 3/4----------75
1 1/4-----------3--------------82
1 3/8-----------3 1/4----------89
1 1/2-----------3 1/2----------96
1 5/8-----------3 3/4----------102
1 3/4-----------4--------------109
1 7/8-----------4 1/4----------116
2---------------4 1/2----------123
2 1/8-----------4 3/4----------130
2 1/4-----------5--------------137
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Articap, I think you said you were using a 28 gauge shotgun. Or was it a 28 gauge smoothbore rifle? I might add shooting any of these loads would be at the shooter's own risk. Different firearms digest loads differently.That being said, I'm going to try some heavier loads. Did you mix your shot sizes to increase the density of the pattern. For instance number 6's and 7 1/2's?
Thanks for this info, Articap. It is very formative.
Phill
I converted a 13 gauge damascus double to a cargo gun, 50 caliber right barrel and 28 gauge left. A one ounce load of shot with equal size or a little less FFG is my 28 gauge load and works great. Really patterns best with Skychiefs load.
theoldredneck, Converting that double really sounds interesting. Maybe you could explain the process.
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I think I did when I was doing it a few years ago. Was getting back into muzzle loading and joined this forum for information and help. Basically got liners from TJ's and lined the damascus barrels on the old double. Had been doing cartridge guns for years before getting back into muzzleloaders. This site is a wonderful source of information.
Thanks for the timely response. I'm not familiar with TJ's. Are they listed somewhere on this forum?
Track of the Wolf sells TJ's hammer forged rifle barrel liners. Haven't talked to Mike that owns TJ's in a few years. At that time he didn't do anything on line.
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