LePage Shooting Advice

[mldors42]

I would appreciate any advice or experience you guys have had with a LePage Pistol. It is a flint in 45 (allegedly) cal barrel SMOOTH BORE. Size ball, patch, and load you may have used. Thanks, M

 

[andy52]

I've got a brace but they're not smooth bores.

 

[No second place]

Planning on shooting smooth bore pistol matches, hunting or plinking?

 

[mldors42]

Matches and plinking. Thx M

 

[No second place]

If you wish to be successful in the smooth bore matches here is a formula top match shooters use who frequently win at the NMLRA nats. 1)...Fuzzy ball fitted without patch to bore so it slides down with just a bit of resistance...2)...Charges of 40 grs of 3f or more...3) They wear a glove on their shooting hand to deal with the recoil....I have a rifled and a smooth barrel for my Lepage flint. Shooting the rifled barrel in .36 is a pleasure. Shooting the smooth barrel with the heavy charges is no fun. Unless you are just shooting those Euro matches that require smoothbore I suggest you get it relined to rifled. My .36 rifled Flint Lepage works very well in rifled Flint matches...c

 

[PK]

Pedersoli only makes the Le Page flint version in .44 rifled and .45 smooth. Where did you get a .36 flint barrel?

 

[No second place]

Pedersoli only makes the Le Page flint version in .44 rifled and .45 smooth. Where did you get a .36 flint barrel?

My match ML pistol, revolver and rifle barrels were all fitted with DeHass custom barrels. There is a guy who relines bores for match barrels currently. Mostly NSSA guns. He did a great job turning a smooth flint LePage to rifled .36 for a fellow match shooter. Don't remember his name but someone here or at the NSSA site will if you ask...c

 

[mldors42]

That is very interesting. I shall try the hairy ball and try working the load up to 40 to see how it prints. I had already consider ordering a rifled barrel. I guess I will find out how hard and how much that will be. I see some folks recommending the .433 ball (which is one mold I don't have). I do have .440, .451, and .454. I really appreciate the info. M

 

[No second place]

Naked fuzzy ball will have to be larger .What size ball depends on your barrel. I have measured many Pedersoli Flint barrels made over 40+ years and some a larger than others. If owned by a serious match shooter it may have been lapped to a larger size...c