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Just for fun I cast up a bunch of .570" balls since I still don't have a mould for a .600", for my Jaeger. DO'H!!!
:curse: :curse: :curse:
Had a couple .570"s laying around, and discovered that they seemed like a pretty good fit in the Jaeger with a denim patch. Again, just to give me something to shoot in Brown Rosie it sounded like a worthwhile experiment.
Went out back and loaded her up. Felt reasonably tight, but didn't need the short starter. Kind of nice...loaded over 100 grains of Swiss and a Wonder Wad, and Wonder lube 1000+.
Wasn't expecting much, and at first they did indeed seem to have a pretty big spread at 65-70 yards, around 6" I would guess. Were not going into any kind of "group" at first.
The more I shot though, they seemed to tighten up, startin' to group.
Put a new plate up, and decided I'd see how many I could keep on the plate, aiming for the center, before I quit. Most of my shots had been going low, aiming for the bottom of the plate.
Shot five more times and got a 2" four shot group with #5 shooting high and left, which brought the five shot group to 3.5". As the four shots are in a round pattern, and the fifth shot is outside the main cluster, that one shot "could" be called a flyer, though I did not call it when I shot it.
Now with the .600" ball and .018" patch, the rifle is certainly capable of much better than that. But, I found it interesting that a guy could, if he really wanted to, shoot such a undersized ball with a thick patch, and get reasonable hunting accuracy. I'm assuming that if the balls kept going into 2" as a rule, that would probably still be at least a 3-4" group at 100, certainly under six inches, which I consider "good enough" for big game, although of course we want to strive for better.
Thoughts, comments? That's a long road from .570" to .620".
Sure was fun shooting Rosie. Same flint as Birddog6 sent with the gun, (and it's starting to look FUNKY) never wiped the frizzen...the rifle has not had a misfire or hangfire yet.
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:curse: :curse: :curse:
Had a couple .570"s laying around, and discovered that they seemed like a pretty good fit in the Jaeger with a denim patch. Again, just to give me something to shoot in Brown Rosie it sounded like a worthwhile experiment.
Went out back and loaded her up. Felt reasonably tight, but didn't need the short starter. Kind of nice...loaded over 100 grains of Swiss and a Wonder Wad, and Wonder lube 1000+.
Wasn't expecting much, and at first they did indeed seem to have a pretty big spread at 65-70 yards, around 6" I would guess. Were not going into any kind of "group" at first.
The more I shot though, they seemed to tighten up, startin' to group.
Put a new plate up, and decided I'd see how many I could keep on the plate, aiming for the center, before I quit. Most of my shots had been going low, aiming for the bottom of the plate.
Shot five more times and got a 2" four shot group with #5 shooting high and left, which brought the five shot group to 3.5". As the four shots are in a round pattern, and the fifth shot is outside the main cluster, that one shot "could" be called a flyer, though I did not call it when I shot it.
Now with the .600" ball and .018" patch, the rifle is certainly capable of much better than that. But, I found it interesting that a guy could, if he really wanted to, shoot such a undersized ball with a thick patch, and get reasonable hunting accuracy. I'm assuming that if the balls kept going into 2" as a rule, that would probably still be at least a 3-4" group at 100, certainly under six inches, which I consider "good enough" for big game, although of course we want to strive for better.
Thoughts, comments? That's a long road from .570" to .620".
Sure was fun shooting Rosie. Same flint as Birddog6 sent with the gun, (and it's starting to look FUNKY) never wiped the frizzen...the rifle has not had a misfire or hangfire yet.
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