November 2022 Postal Match

[11th corps]

Tried it this time with my northwest trade gun smoothbore.
.600 round ball
80 grains of 3F
Pillow tick patch, bore butter lube.
My first 3 shots would have been a very good group-for me-but didn't score.

Here is the target after 10. It was a sunny mid 40's day here in Indiana. After firing 5 shots I looked at my gun and realized my flint was missing. I looked all over the firing line but never found it. I then looked in my gun box for the bag of flints I keep in there. I had taken them out last night to put one on my trade gun, then forgot to put them back into the box. So home I went, picked up the flints and continued on.
Mike B of Duelist 1954 believes that smoothbores can be made to be accurate with higher powder charges. I have seen him use 110 grains of powder. My shoulder would not tolerate that, so I kept it down to 80 grains. I normally load at 60. It did seem to help with point of impact.

 

[garypl]

Shot this target on Friday with JAKEGA - he was the better shooter this day! We had a great time and this target was a little easier to see - have to make up a December target that we can all see better.

 

[Onemancoyote]

Don’t mind my notes and arrows. TC Hawken, .490 RB, 60gr Pyrodex, lotsa Bore Butter.

Scored 24.

I think the 4th group counts as 10 for the beard and I didn’t count the body hit as it’s less than half.

 

[Crooked Creek]

What a busy month! Thought i would get this done sooner.

Not too good, I'm calling it 17 points.
Three in the feathers and one in the eyes.


T/C Hawken .54
50 Gr of 2F Schuetzen
.018” Hobby Lobby Pillow Tick patch
Olive Oil lube
Hornady .530 Rounds
CCI caps

 

[garypl]

So close on most of the misses but glad you had fun with it and thanks for posting!

 

[PK]

After a 7 month (forced) non shooting spell I finally got out and shot a target. Not very good but better than I had expected.

.45 cal Late Lancaster flintlock
.440 RB with .018 patch and ballistol

lube
40 gr Goex OE 3f

 

[garypl]

Welcome back! We’re you unable to shoot because winter just ended in MN? LOL!

I moved from Minnesota down to Georgia in 1986 and don’t think I could tolerate the extreme cold anymore. I sure do miss ice fishing though!

 

[PK]

We always enjoyed winter but these days we’re spending our winters in Florida. The Lower Swanee River wildlife area has a hog hunt late January. Plan to break out the .54 Hawken by then and try to get one.

 

[J dirt]

Finally got these turkeys done. I stapled them down, but they seemed to flutter around when shooting at them.

Hope all y’all had a good thanksgiving. I sure like this match, it’s like I am shooting with friends I haven’t met yet.

 

[J dirt]

Rifle target.

 

[garypl]

Those are some nice targets you shot J dirt - well done!

In the morning I'm going to work on a target for December. Let's see, Santa, Reindeer, gift boxes, so many possibilities!

 

[garypl]

November target is finished and we had 11 participants. Here are the results:

J dirt - 43 pts (also shot a pistol target with a 45 - well done!)
Richard Dittman - 39
freedom475 - 38
JakeGa - 32
garypl - 30
Buckskin Quin & Onemancoyote - tie with 24
PK - 20
nessmuk - 18
Crooked Creek - 17
11th corps - 12

Hope everyone had fun with this target and thanks for participating! December target is posted and should be interesting - wish everyone a blessed Christmas holiday.

Gary