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Here's a cell phone video of me shooting Pritchetts in the P-H Musketoon

These rifles are the best, easy to load, nice handling , as accurate as you need within realistic ranges .

Those 2-Banders are nice too. I'd love to pick one up

The Musketoons are handy to pack around, put it in the car, take to the range, don't have to swing a mile long musket around and they shoot nice sitting at the bench too.
 
I purchased the 2 cavity mould.I have an early PH enfield muketoon that is newnever fired condition and when I get the mould I m going to change that very quickly
 
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Stantheman86 said:


Here's a cell phone video of me shooting Pritchetts in the P-H Musketoon

These rifles are the best, easy to load, nice handling , as accurate as you need within realistic ranges .

Those 2-Banders are nice too. I'd love to pick one up

The Musketoons are handy to pack around, put it in the car, take to the range, don't have to swing a mile long musket around and they shoot nice sitting at the bench too.
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nice video. I noticed you did not half cock the hammer so when a bullet is rammed down the air can escape but your bullets went down easy. with my rifles I can see a difference if the hammer is on the nipple
 
Whitworth said:
I'll see your PH Musketoon and raise you a 2 Bander 😅 This Musketoon was found dirty with dried out wood and looking very sad. Little elbow grease and bit of tung oil had her looking good for a $400 PH. This little fellow has become a favorite. View attachment 85389
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Here in UK we have a rather odd situation. All of my replicas have to be secured just like any modern firearm.

But I also have two original Sniders, and because they shoot an obsolete cartridge, they are classed as Section 58 [Obsolete calibre] firearms, require no registration anywhere, and can be hung on the wall, like yours.

However, ONE of them IS a live-firing firearm, as I shoot it, but it has to be locked way just like all my other unmentionable firearms.
 
SPQR70AD said:
nice video. I noticed you did not half cock the hammer so when a bullet is rammed down the air can escape but your bullets went down easy. with my rifles I can see a difference if the hammer is on the nipple
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Early on when I started shooting muzzleloaders, the advice was to leave the hammer down on the busted cap to prevent air flow , but then dudes like Hickok45 are on YouTube shooting various military muzzleloaders and telling people to half cock the hammer to let air in to "put sparks out" and says he has never had a "cook off" in 50 years of shooting old muzzleloaders.

I think the original method was to leave the hammer down, presumably in rapid fire combat scenarios where there might be an ember in the breech if you're reloading seconds after shooting. The only cook offs I've heard about were from separated Minie skirts staying hot in a breech.

sometimes a heavily lubed Minie will kinda "buoy" back up against the ram rod. I usually don't shoot fast enough to worry about embers in the breech anyway. Proper cleaning does more to prevent this in my opinion.
 
Whitworth said:
I'll see your PH Musketoon and raise you a 2 Bander 😅 This Musketoon was found dirty with dried out wood and looking very sad. Little elbow grease and bit of tung oil had her looking good for a $400 PH. This little fellow has become a favorite. View attachment 85389
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Lots of the P-H Musketoons were sold to NSSA Skirmishers back when it was at the peak of its popularity, there's always 2 or 3 on GunBroker. I think it was Navy Arms who imported most of them ? That also gave them the "Musketoon" name.

The 2-banders were popular too. I see very few P-H P53 3-Banders for sale.

I was lucky and found a guy selling 2 P-H Musketoons, he bought one and used it for Skirmish matches, it's pretty beat up and has lots of handling wear and he bought a 2nd one as a "backup" . I just shoot the well used one and keep the almost new one as a Safe Queen.
 
In any event, Parker-Hale serial numbers are gratefully received by Mr Minshall, who is building up a record of genuine P-H serial numbers. In the case of Volunteer rifles, the earlier Henry-rifled will usually have an H in front of the number. If anybody here has such a rifle, please do not omit it.
 
Stantheman86 said:
I think the original method was to leave the hammer down.....
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Insofar as British instruction, both the Infantry Manual of 1854 and 1857 refer to loading from the cartridge first, then to cap; it is when capping that the rifle is brought to half cock. So yes, for British musketry instruction, load with the hammer down.

David
 
ResearchPress said:
Insofar as British instruction, both the Infantry Manual of 1854 and 1857 refer to loading from the cartridge first, then to cap; it is when capping that the rifle is brought to half cock. So yes, for British musketry instruction, load with the hammer down.

David
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I'm guessing they were trying to mitigate Flash Fires from burning embers or it just made the loading process more streamlined because half cocking after firing then lowering the rifle to load is just an extra step, half cocking to cap just feels more intuitive
 
Stantheman86 said:
I'm guessing they were trying to mitigate Flash Fires from burning embers or it just made the loading process more streamlined ....
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Just checked the 1847 Infantry Manual - and its the same as the later ones; load from cartridge followed by 'prime' (in this case with a cap) - "... half cock the piece (move the forefinger to throw-off the old cap), than take a cap from the pocket...". It's a well disciplined set of commands and motions; there's no explantion that I have seen suggesting mitigation of flash fires.

David
 
Excellent information on this thread!! I found a new video here that goes through the process of making the .550" diameter bullet tube (1860) with links to the NOE bullet mold & hollow base plug molds and paper patch metal templates here: and here for the paper patch tube only here:

thanks, Mike
 
dd832 said:
Excellent information on this thread!! I found a new video here that goes through the process of making the .550" diameter bullet tube (1860) with links to the NOE bullet mold & hollow base plug molds and paper patch metal templates here: and here for the paper patch tube only here:

thanks, Mike
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Great stuff, and many thanks, except for a couple of things. The narrator's voice is very difficult to discern - and my electronic listening machine can't cope with the reverberations in the sound-track without giving me gibberish, and none of those useful template items are available here in UK. Lastly, the author blithely notes that he rattled off a few mandrels and other pieces on his 3D printer, like everybody has on their worktop.

Nope.

It would really be great if somebody THIS side of the pond, home of the Pritchett bullet, the Pritchett rifle and the 'English Cartridge', could make these things more readily available.

Right now I'm happy absolutely zero success in finding the correct paper to roll the cartridges with, and without that, I'm really f*rting in the thunder.
 
The paper is Bienfang linen rag & thin but strong I've found such paper can be found in some books . My sourse was a German / English dictionary from our village Op shop but some graph paper can be found suitable Much clearer info can be found on Rob Deans videos . These vary from the original but not in all essence & are reloadable to some extent .
.Rudyard
 

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