Pedersoli .45 Pennsylvania

[cottonmouth]

How many of you have and shoot the Pedersoli .45 in the Pennsylvania model?
Also favorite loads if you have one!

 

[cowpoke1955]

I have a Pedersoli .45 Blue Ridge flinter. My favorite load is a .440 ball, .018 pillow ticking lubed with Ballistol and 70 grains of FFFg Goex.

 

[Jumpshot]

Mine is the Chambersburg Pennsylvania (same rifle but with different decoration on the stock, and a browned 42" barrel)...
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My usual load is 60 grains 3F GOEX with a .440 Speer ball. The rifle is very accurate with this load, ignition is very fast. I just acquired some Hornady .433 balls I'm going to try. I used to use pillow ticking, but it's a bit tough to load, so I switched to Ox-Yoke wonder patches. They're softer and easier to load. The smaller ball will require some more experimenting with patches.

I've tried up to 90 grains 3F. Point of impact was higher at 100 yards, but still shot good. I've never chronographed it (don't have a chronograph).

 

[RADeO]

I have the Dixie Pennsylvania flinter made by Pedersoli. My load is 65 grains of Goex or Scheutzen 3fg under a .440" cast ball wrapped in a .018" pillow-ticking patch lubricated with Three Rivers liquid lube. I coned the muzzle with Joe Woods' tool to facilitate easier loading. Shoots fast, flat, and accurate. :thumbsup:

 

[fort fireman]

.440 hornaday RB, with ox-yoke patch on top of 70 grs 3F Kik bp. Great load!!!

 

[cottonmouth]

Thanks for the replies!
Seems like the general consensus is that these are good shooting and accurate rifles!
Jumpshot keep me posted on those .433 balls! :wink:

 

[single shot]

i have a .45 frontier model. So far only ran about a dozen rounds through it. Tried goex ff 45 grains next ill increase the load. Ill go to fff also to compare. The gun has no kick whatsoever. Although i dont have it dialed in yet,it sure was a blast to shoot.

 

[claudio66]

hallo,
I have a Pennsylvania .45 flint starting from a Pedersoli's kit and use this only for doing holes in paper at 50-100 meters.
I use the suggested .445 round with a .010 cotton patch (from old t-shirt preventively immersed in fluid margarin). The BP is 45 gr of Swiss n°2 (medium-fine) and Swiss n°1 for flint.
have nice smoky shot!
claudio

 

[cottonmouth]

Claudio,
What type of fluid margarine are you using on your ball patches?
Are you allowed to use your muzzleloader for any type of hunting in Italy?

 

[claudio66]

Dear Cypress Wolf
hope the word margarine is correct, in Italy is a vegetal grease that seems butter and you can use instead butter for cooking food. So you put a bit of margarine in a little pan, then put this little one into a bigger one half full of warm water, on a burner at half flame.
Then you put a old newspaper on a wood board and prepare patches divided in three queues on the paper.
When the margarine became liquid pick a patch and immerse one second, then put this patch on a new one and cover with a new one; when finished, you have a lot of “sandwiches” made by a “margarized” patch between two dry ones.
Put a second newspaper on the “sandwiches” and pass for some minutes a warm flat-iron or put the same pan containing water, so that the margarine greases all three patches.
Now you are ready for use the patches or to keep them in a plastic bag for some months.
Margarine is cheap and contains vegetal greases that easily dissolves the burned part of BP, so that is easy to press down the round ball, and clean barrel.
Hope is all clear, otherwise ask again

For BP hunting in Italy I don’t know so much because I don’t go hunting, for sure BP Hunters are few people and most of them are fowlers.

That’s all

Have nice smoky shoots

claudio

 

[Zonie]

I strongly suggest that anyone who is thinking of using margarine absolutely MUST read the label.

Almost ALL margarine's contain SALT to make them taste better than oil and salt will RUST your bore just as quickly as black powder fouling.

If folks want to use it, fine, but please check to see if there is any salt in it. If there is, use it on your bread. A little jelly goes well with it.

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

Salt free butter is better, and is a little tiny bit closer to tallow. It is really only useful in cool weather though. And it doesn't contain polymorphorized un-glycerated frog fat like margarine does. Stuff'll kill you in a second!

 

[claudio66]

Thanks Zonie for the suggestion: I checked the label and my margarine contains salt!
I will throw away this stuff even if I didn't know the fats mentioned by Russ T Frizzen!

smoky nice shots!

claudio

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

In all seriousness, salt free butter can be used in a pinch and works fine. It's worse than trying to carry Crisco around on a hot day though!

The beeswax and tallow mix is still best in my experience with the ratio of one to the other altered according to the time of year.