I'm back!!! I had a chance to shoot my Rifle for the first time.
At 50 yards it hit the center of the bulleye no problems.
Let me tell ya a story.
I went out with a friend how had access to a private range. Hahah no cost to us.
I loaded up the rifle with the 60 grains of 2f black powder. I use the ball and patch, with the patch being 0.15 thickness. The loading process was easy, with the patch that I was using. The only problem I had was during the firing of this gun. I pulled the trigger, and nothing happen for 1 1/2 second, then BOOM!! Scared the living heck out of me. My shot was way off because I moved the gun a little. I didn't like that powder, however, I didn't take the time to trouble shoot the issue. It started to rain a bit.
I later figure out that I had too much oil in the nipple or barrel. So pre firing the nipple with a cap could have saved me a shot.
I was still not wanting to shoot any more round balls since I had .45 cal/ .50 cal sabots with me. They are bullets, and form what I read and know, bullets are better than balls, so I wanted to see how they could shoot and then turn back to the lead balls.
The range was dirty for as it always had litter, and sometimes someone would put out some steal targets, to which were always all shot out form all corners. At the time was a little bit cleaner than usual, and all I could find was a shot out paint can. The can was almost useless, but the bottom of the can wasn't damage at all, and made for a prefect bullseye target mat.. NOTE: I did bring my own paper target I forget to bring cans and other stuff to blow up.
So I switch over to the 3f black powder, purred it down the barrel, and sat the sabot at the end of the muzzle; It was a very tight squeeze. I used the starter rod to get it about 3 inches down the barrel, about as far as it goes, and had to ram the ram rod hard Up and down the barrel, Hitting, and forcing the sabot down to be seated. There was one final push down on the end of the rod to finish the seating process. IT was Hard!!!
I figure the recoil would be double the amount that I felt during the test fire of the ball and patch, and sure enough it kick like a mule.
However!! The shot hit the center of paint can without any problems. I do admit I was about 40 or 30 yard at this time, but still the target was very small. The paint can didn't have a lot of damage form the hit, just a thumb size hole. I loaded up about 2 more times, and all shots hit around the same area, the shots were less than 1/2 inches form each others.
During this time I was getting late, and a huge front was coming in. :bull:
So I decided to shoot the round balls this time.
I used the 3f powder this time; since I knew how it would work for me, and just hit the can right above the three shots made earlier. The hole was huge!!! It could had swallow up the three shot easily. The shot made an entire hole about the size of my fist, and an exit hole that was twice as large; completely destroying the other half of the can. Now the Paint can was totally useless.
