Musketoon

[nkbj]

It appears that soon a Parker-Hale musketoon will arrive on my door step. The one with five groove rifling and 24" barrel.
Any yall shoot one?
What loads might you have found work best for you?

 

[ZTCDad]

Been shooting one in N-SSA competition for sometime now. For about the last five years I have been shooting the RCBS Hodgdon sized to .575 and homemade lube typical of what is listed elsewhere in the forum. 42 grains FFFg Goex. I have never used Pyrodex or the similar products. I have one of the English made Parker Hale's.

 

[nkbj]

Thank you for the input.

Looking forward to seeing how it performs compared to the Italian P53. Now I'm gonna have to make up a batch of the paper patched service loads.

 

[bigted]

cool ... lookin forward to the photo's when she graces yer door step.

 

[nkbj]

The Parker-Hale musketoon arrived yesterday.
Has a few handling marks. Some dust. There is a nipple mark inside the cup on the front of the hammer. The nipple is hard and not marked. But I can't find evidence of it ever having been fired.



Also in the packaging were two tubular powder flasks (CVA and Traditions), two high quality nipple wrenches, three nipples (don't know what they fit), an Uncle Mike's fifty cal brush (the kind that doesn't come apart), a brass straight line capper, a pocket clip mechanical pencil with a hard wire inside to use as a touch hole/nipple pick, a #10 thread (I think) ball puller, a replacement brass TC Hawken ram rod thimble, a .45 caliber brass jag, a brass TC adjustable measure, a ball starter, a couple of packages of plastic/copper things not discussed...

I'm happy.

 

[Kansas Jake]

Very nice. You did a good score.

 

[nkbj]

Thanks.
Too bad there is no time to shoot this weekend.
I want to try out the Lyman 575494 with the 577611 base plug (thicker skirt might allow bumping up the FFFg in the shorter barrel).

 

[Alden]

Nice. Reminds me of my Pedersoli Cook & Brother art'y carbine. So handy...



Enjoy and be safe!

 

[nhmoose]

Reply to OP not Alden, I will figure this out someday

Great looking rifle!!!!!!!!

 

[coloradoclyde]

I have an Enfield Musketoon... not a parker hale though....kicks like a mule and groups like a shotgun. sights are terrible....

Makes me glad I wasn't in the civil war..... :grin:

 

[bigted]

my oh my ... that just looks like way fun to me. I can not wait to hear how your first shoot goes with it. and will you also try PRB's thru it?

I also like the brass fixture one Alden shows. this is exactly what I wanna do with my CCI Zouave with the cruddy barrel.

very nice fella's ... thankyou for showing your carbines. they indeed look like the very thing I have in mind as an alteration.

 

[nkbj]

Gotta try some round ball for sure!
Got a variety of minies and some round ball ready to go.
About a hundred and thirty 575213's lubed and sized .575". That might be a little loose. Reckon I'd better try 'em out and see.
Maybe in a few more days.
Good night from DuBuque!

 

[hanshi]

Great looking little rifle you have there. I kinda have a soft spot for short, handy rifles.

Years ago I had a "Zouave" and shot it a lot. I never killed a deer with it but did kill lots of small game using prb. One was a big fox squirrel that I hit in the neck. That big ball simply made a slit going in and another slit where it exited.

FWIW, I shot lots of minies as well as prb. I lubed them as usual but then took a small sheet of toilet paper (split a 2-ply and used only 1-ply) and wrapped the bullet with it. The lube, beeswax and Crisco, made the sheet stick very well. These minies still went down easily but didn't slide back out when held muzzle down.

 

[nkbj]

I'm glad you posted that experience!
Was thinking along the same lines but was wondering how to make a holder/binder that wouldn't introduce any eccentricity into the exited projectile.
By golly you just might have nailed it.

 

[torn moc]

that's a Beaut !!!!....mine is a euroarms from the 70's and looks new and shoots like a dream...I love how easily the minnies load!