Smoothbore adaptablity?

[Jarikeen]

Can you, or would you shoot shot though the likes of a brown bess?

 

[Parzifal]

Yes , and it does a good job. Shot/ball/ buck and ball and dont forget BAYONET!! a smoothbore is nearly endless in its adaptability and a Bess just seems to do it all well.

Cheers!

Rob

 

[Many Klatch]

I surprised a bunch of people with my Bess last year. We were shooting at clay birds and they had a loading bench set up with dippers for the shot. I always use a balanced load when shooting shot, which means that I use the same measure for powder or shot. I was shooting 90 grains of powder so I normally would use the same measure for the shot. They had an approved shot dipper that they said threw the right amount of shot for a 12 gauge. I used it once and didn't hit a thing. I looked at the dipper and found that it took three dippers to fill my powder measure. When I loaded the Bess with 90 grains of shot I started hitting everything. I told them I didn't care what the book said, the point was to put a cloud of shot out there to hit something.

One of these days I'm going to have to shoot this load at cardboard to see how it patterns.

Many Klatch

 

[smoothbore69]

Yes,
One of the great things about smoothbores is the variety of projectiles that you can run through them.
With my smoothies, I regularly shoot ball, birdshot, and buckshot.
I too find that a balanced load is better when shooting shot. Lighter loads do not pattern well.

Chris Quattlebaum

 

[Stumpkiller]

Yessir. Did for 15 years. Not much luck with birds on the wing but bunnies and squirrels were in danger out to 30 yards or so.

 

[Jarikeen]

Thanks guys.