Meant to follow up on this but for some reason I posted in ‘’What muzzle loading stuff . . . .’’ , probably age related
Anyway, to recap,
then I rough turned the blanks
Next I made some projectiles to a neat fit in the bore of the H&A target rifle, 40 grn average x 3/4 inch and 46 grn x 1 inch.[and forgot to photograph them].
Put targets out at 25 metres, loaded 25 grn 3f under the 40s and never hit the target [3 shots]
Loaded 50 grns under the 46s and the same result, no hits, although I could hear them hitting something, possibly the 50 metre mound.
However when we [Service rifle shoot was going on at the same time so many onlookers].retrieved the targets the target on the unshot-at side had a long tear where one of the shot’s ripped it.
So they were getting there as far as distance and elevation were concerned, just in the wrong place
Will try paper patching next time.