T/C QLA Muzzle - Anybody Had Accuracy Problems?

[musketman]

I think that's why real 'false muzzles' were removeable...you put it on to load, took it back off out of the way to shoot.

Sure was, and the false muzzle protected the barrel's crown, this is why most target rifles incorparated them...

Typical false muzzle and starter (note the 3 strip, paper patch holder between the false muzzle and the plunger)

The false muzzle was pinned and alignment holes were drilled into the face of the thick barrel to make sure the bullet or ball was centered and would start true...

 

Roundball, you're right. - They had to be removable as if shot when still on the muzzle, they'd sail downrange and bend the locating pins.
: The ONLY reason for the false muzzle was to accurately load an elongated bullet into a barrel that had 90 degree sharpness at the muzzle. Any sort of bevel or crown on the muzzle to ease loading, injures accuracy compared to one that's sharp. That's why modern accuracy rifles have either 90 degree muzzles or nowadays, 11 degree muzzles that are still sharp. This helps with the perfect delivery of the projectile.
: There might be 2 reasons there- HA!- need the sharp muzzle for accuracy and be able to load full dia. bullets without tearing the paper or cloth patch.
Daryl

 

Read and re-read Ned Roberts book, "The Muzzleloading Cap Lock Rifle". Anything that needed to be known about the PRB, false muzzles, paper patched elongated bullets and accuracy from any of the above, was known before 1890. Those folks dealt with that day in and day out, for a couple hundred years.....and we think, aside from tolerances or metallurgy, that we're going to improve upon what they knew? I doubt it.

Vic

 

Actually, the false muzzle started life as the "muzzle" of the barrel. It was pre-drilled and pinned prior to being "cut off" from the barrel. Thus the rifling matched not only the twist but also the depth, style, type and alignment of the barrel as it had actually been, at one time, a part of the barel. I expect most of that is commonly known.

Vic

 

[NoJacketRequired]

Geez - lots of great posts. Thanks to all for your help. I've been toying with the idea of re-crowning the barrel on my own, leaving the QLA in place. Because the barrel is essentially the part of the firearm that's registered I can't ship it easily to T/C, nor can I easily buy another one on e-Bay because I can't import it to Canada. Gotta love gubbermint rules...

One thing I'll mention here as a result of a comment made in an earlier post by Gordy is that it's really pretty easy for Americans to bring their long guns into Canada. Handguns are a little more difficult, but long guns are easy as pie.

TIme for me to scratch my head and figure out where I go from here. I might just resign myself to considering this rifle to be a conical shooter and leave PRB out of the picture. Some guns are like that... *grin*