Hello from Suffolk, UK

[Toby H]

Good afternoon All,

Back into shooting after several years abroad and managed to pick up a .45 Smoothbore percussion shotgun muzzleloader.

I've previously owned a New Model Army .38 revolver so some experience with black powder. Though I intend to use Pyrodex and eventually Triple 7 when I get my explosives certificate (Required in the UK).

Looking forward to trying it out at my club with .45 ball to start with. Likely needing some advice on loads etc.

Nice to be among like minded folk.

Toby

 

[Eterry]

Howdy from way down here in North Texas. Welcome to the forum.
Some " smooth rifles" were made BITD, and we understand the situation you're in with smoothbores.

 

[Medicine Bow]

Good afternoon All,

Back into shooting after several years abroad and managed to pick up a .45 Smoothbore percussion shotgun muzzleloader.

I've previously owned a New Model Army .38 revolver so some experience with black powder. Though I intend to use Pyrodex and eventually Triple 7 when I get my explosives certificate (Required in the UK).

Looking forward to trying it out at my club with .45 ball to start with. Likely needing some advice on loads etc.

Nice to be among like minded folk.

Toby

Howdy and welcome from the Colorado Rockies.

I lived in Suffolk for 3 years. Nice area.

 

[Eutycus]

Another Howdy from Texas!

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

Welcome from Radon Land Pa.

 

[Colonial Boy]

Welcome from New England.
My English side are from Stourpaine and nearby villages in Dorset.

 

[Duk]

Welcome from North Dakota

 

[kelljp]

Welcome from East TN

 

[VA Hawken]

Welcome from Winchester, VA!

 

[Sir Boniface Harrison]

Hi Toby, welcome from an Englishman living in France! Happily, over here BP weapons of any kind, smoothbore or rifles, are unrestricted, like air rifles in the UK. I remember, back in my days in the UK American Civil War Society, having to have a shotgun cert for my (smoothbore) Parker Hale Enfield, and a separate BP certificate for my powder. May I suggest that, if your gun is a .45 cal, you use the same number of grains in terms of powder and proceed from there? My long guns are both .45 Hawken replicas, and I find that 45 grains over 100 yards is perfectly adequate. May I ask why you plan to use Pyrodex? It is of course a matter of preference, but I find Pyrodex and other BP substitutes leave more residue, and are more prone to misfires due to their slightly higher ignition temperature.

 

[oldwood]

Welcome from Pa.. USA

 

[nit wit]

Welcome from Maine
Nit Wit

 

[BackDraft]

Welcome from South-Central Indiana (The Heartland of the USA)

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Welcome from Alberta.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Welcome from New York State's Central-Leatherstocking region.

 

[toot]

Welcome.

 

[dracer]

welcome to the forum

 

[treborn]

Welcome aboard

 

[TFoley]

Hi Toby, welcome from an Englishman living in France! Happily, over here BP weapons of any kind, smoothbore or rifles, are unrestricted, like air rifles in the UK. I remember, back in my days in the UK American Civil War Society, having to have a shotgun cert for my (smoothbore) Parker Hale Enfield, and a separate BP certificate for my powder. May I suggest that, if your gun is a .45 cal, you use the same number of grains in terms of powder and proceed from there? My long guns are both .45 Hawken replicas, and I find that 45 grains over 100 yards is perfectly adequate. May I ask why you plan to use Pyrodex? It is of course a matter of preference, but I find Pyrodex and other BP substitutes leave more residue, and are more prone to misfires due to their slightly higher ignition temperature.

You mean in SOME parts of UK. In Scotland you need an air weapons license, and in Northern Ireland, a 100% full firearms certificate, just like any other for real firearm. AND in England, Scotland and Wales, a full FAC for aything over 12ft lbs.... Not so unrestricted, after all.

I 100% agree with you and your comment about Pyrodex and T7 - and would be VERY loathe to use T7 in ANY antique firearm.

If the OP can be persuaded to use his Explosives Licence to obtain the real Black powder that this old piece was made for, it would make more sense to me.

And to the OP - welcome from Cambridgeshire!

 

[LSLibelo]

Welcome from California.