Layered charges, Remington balls, BEF life

[roundball]

Took the .58cal to the range again this Saturday morning...along with a 20lb propane tank with radiant heater attachment on top...27 degrees with 5mph wind...you gotta love shootin Flintlocks!

Used another set of premeasured layered charges...20grns Goex 3F, then 50grns Pyrodes RS, worked perfectly...next Saturday I'll finish off that pound of RS.

Used 50 Remington "copper covered" .570s in the Flinter, and true to Remington's advertisment, their copper covered balls left no leading in the bore!!
:shake:

I started the session using the same black English flint I had used last Saturday for 50 shots without knapping...got 22 more shots on it this morning before I finally had a 'ker-latch'.
Knapped it lightly, shot a few more, had to knapp it again, replaced it after a total of 85 shots...too cold to bother fiddling with it any more.

Anyhow, a great morning at the range...that .58cal GM Flint barrel just ate the centers out of the targets

 

[Bearbait2]

Mr. Roundball,
Did you patch the "copper covered" RBs or shoot them bare?
Best Wishes

 

[Flintandsteel]

Roundball,

Why would you have leading with a patched roundball???
Just curious.

 

[roundball]

Roundball,

Why would you have leading with a patched roundball???
Just curious.

You wouldn't...that's why I used the "rolling my eyes" symbol...
:grin:

Remingtons advertisment for them actually says something to the effect that "our copper covered balls keep your bore from becoming leaded", etc...obviously written by someone in advertising who doesn't understand the concept of a "patched round ball"...

 

[roundball]

Mr. Roundball,
Did you patch the "copper covered" RBs or shoot them bare?
Best Wishes

Patched like normal...

 

[gordy]

Roundball!I love the way some of thease adds are worded,I like the speil used by sportsmans guide to discribe the Traditions Penn.rifle"just like the one used to bark tree rats at 300 yerds".I'd like to meet the person that can see a tree rat at 300 yards. :rotf: :bull:

 

[Flintandsteel]

Roundball,

Sorry about that. Thought I missed something in the translation. :rotf: :v

 

[jim gray]

It's not exactly untrue that the copper covered RBs don't lead the barrel. They just fail to mention the fact that if properly loaded pure lead balls don't either.

It is clever advertising, kind of like, "So pure it floats." :blah: Advertising like that is effective because people don't want to have to think for themselves.

Sorry, back to the subject. That's some pretty good shooting RB. I would like to give my .58 a little exercise, but when the temp crawls out of the teens I am always working. I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings.

 

[roundball]

I sure do like shooting the flinters...I'm off Friday and Monday for Christmas, so I'm planning to go to the range Friday and Monday mornings, then sit for Does late on those afternoons

 

[rhwestfall]

lucky you, our ML season (NY) closes today.......ooh boy, a whopping 9 days immediately after the close of "regular gun". What a joke!