• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades

Baseball and shooting

Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

skypilot39b

36 Cal.
Joined
Feb 10, 2016
Messages
104
Reaction score
2
Location
Manhattan, KS
So I was talking to one of my friend's sons about shooting and rifling and smooth bore and showing him some balls that I had cast and he noticed the sprue and asked about it and we got to talking about flight characteristics. He decided we need to have a mould that has baseball stitching into the cast and then different loads in different barrels could do curve balls and sliders and fastballs....it made for a fun discussion
 
Smart kid :thumbsup:
But you forgot to tell him you have to grab the ball the same way each time before you "throw it".
aka; patched ball seated on a powder charge.
 
Actually many long range shooters refer to"curve ball effect" of the rifling. Modern shooters use the term :"spin drift". :hmm: :hmm:
 
I thought when I cast and the first few have the wrinkle layer look that those are for shooting around trees? I practice with them and they always seem to shoot right of center on paper as I am a lefty.
 
There was a large bore flintlock shown in a post here once upon a time that had some sort of peep on it with multiple holes. The holes were not in a vertical line but in progression curved up and to the left. Made me wonder how far that rear sight was regulated for.
 
GoodCheer said:
There was a large bore flintlock shown in a post here once upon a time that had some sort of peep on it with multiple holes. The holes were not in a vertical line but in progression curved up and to the left.
Was that a flip-up rear peep? There was one such posted by Claude in this thread, but he never provided any info about the gun being large bore or anything else. It was "from 1670."
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...65/post/1540005/hl/1670/fromsearch/1/#1540005

Spence
 
Last edited by a moderator:
When I was in Australia shooting in October I had problems with my rifling not spinning in the right direction for being in the Southern Hemisphere.

Fleener
 
fleener said:
When I was in Australia shooting in October I had problems with my rifling not spinning in the right direction for being in the Southern Hemisphere.
Turn around and shoot in the opposite direction and you'll be OK.

Spence
 
Making fast balls just requires more powder and a slider is easy too. Just load 10 grains of powder and aim high. :grin:

The curve ball isn't likely, even with baseball stitching on the ball.

Curve balls are thrown with a twist of the wrist so they are spinning along the balls vertical axis.

That would be hard to do even shooting a smoothbore.
 
It has been said to load with sprue up with a cast ball and I also read somewhere that the ball in flight will rotate so that the heavy side moves to the rear of the ball. I have also noticed that there is some spin drift in the direction of barrel twist at 100 yard target. I have both left and right slow twist ball barrels.

In research of longer range round ball shooting I found the real issue is the transition area where the ball goes from super sonic to sub sonic. The faster the twist rate the more disruption in the flight path. Truth or fiction I am not sure. I am quite sure a good deal of knowledge from our forefathers has been lost over time.
 
Fleener, some photos in the current SSAA magazine competition section shewing all the teams that took part in the Long Range World Champs at Montarto in SA. PM me and I will send you the magazine

Cheers

Gordon
 

Latest posts

Back
Top