Max range of musket balls

[Leonredbeard]

Thanks for you thoughts Paul and others. Now my memory has been jogged. It may be that for smokeless powder rounds with pointed long projectiles in the modern military, 30 degrees was claimed as the attitude for getting maximum range. As you and others suggest this may not apply to BP and roundballs. Even so a rousing and interesting discussion. Just what these forums are for! It would be fun to have a place to test it out.
volatpluvia

 

[Charles D. Prokopp]

Back in the mid-'70s I was at a rondy at Fort de Chartres in Illinois. (God that was fun!) The backstop for shooting festivities was one of the old Mississippi levees. Can't ask for a better berm than one of those. Shooting had to be repeatedly stopped for an idiot on a motorcycle who persisted in buzzing back and forth to watch the shooting from that vantage point. When a Ranger finally intercepted the clotpoll, said dolt couldn't understand why we stopped shooting every time he hove into sight.
There's no cure for stupid.

 

[CoyoteJoe]

There's no cure for stupid.

Sure there is, just keep on shooting! :grin: