DavyCrockett
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I just got my Pedersoli Blue Ridge 50. cal, and shot it for the first time today. First time I ever shot a flintlock. It. Was. Awesome.
I felt like I was firing a cannon. The sound it made was awesome. The smoke was also just so satisfying. Granted I missed my target every shot I took (Think it may need sighting in but I just wanted to shoot today.) and flinched like an idiot.
It was still just so great to shoot.
Shot it maybe 25 times, let a few of my family shoot it too. Not a single misfire (I hope that's the correct terminology), no big problems of any time.
I did however have one problem. I thought I had seen people pushing the ball in with the patch kinda wrapped around the bottom half of the ball, but anytime I did that, it got stuck just a few inches down the barrel. So I just pushed the patch down first and then the ball separately and it still fired fine, might have lost some accuracy but that wasn't a huge concern for me today. I'm supposed to push the ball down with the patch right? The patches I bought came pre-lubed too. Any ideas to what I might've done wrong?
Also I just want to say thanks again to everyone on this forum who helped me pick out a gun, learn what I needed to know to shoot, and everything else anyone did for me. Thanks.
I felt like I was firing a cannon. The sound it made was awesome. The smoke was also just so satisfying. Granted I missed my target every shot I took (Think it may need sighting in but I just wanted to shoot today.) and flinched like an idiot.
It was still just so great to shoot.
Shot it maybe 25 times, let a few of my family shoot it too. Not a single misfire (I hope that's the correct terminology), no big problems of any time.
I did however have one problem. I thought I had seen people pushing the ball in with the patch kinda wrapped around the bottom half of the ball, but anytime I did that, it got stuck just a few inches down the barrel. So I just pushed the patch down first and then the ball separately and it still fired fine, might have lost some accuracy but that wasn't a huge concern for me today. I'm supposed to push the ball down with the patch right? The patches I bought came pre-lubed too. Any ideas to what I might've done wrong?
Also I just want to say thanks again to everyone on this forum who helped me pick out a gun, learn what I needed to know to shoot, and everything else anyone did for me. Thanks.