Stop the presses!!

[Pacobillie]

According to this month's Outdoor Life magazine, "blackpowder pellets" are the "greatest muzzleloading advancement ever" (at page 25). :barf: Writer Jim Carmichael also recommends "buttering the bore" after loading, but before priming, as a way of "improving accuracy". :shocked2: :rotf:

Isn't it great that we have experts like this to enlighten us?

 

[RedFeather]

Was that the April issue, as in April 1st? Let's hope so! Personally, I never put my faith in what I read in the gun mags. No siree! I get my information directly from the teenaged clerk at the big box store! Nothing like first hand knowledge!

 

[FishDFly]

"Isn't it great that we have experts like this to enlighten us?"


Okay, I will ask, do they still print on presses?

 

[jethro224]

:rotf:

 

[Kentuckywindage]

most of the guys in magazines are paid to say that and actually have zero clue whats good and whats not. Blackhorn209 is the greatest advancement in powder for a muzzle loader. Not pellets.

 

[Fred_Dwyer]

Blackhorn209 is the greatest advancement in powder for a muzzle loader.

Is that the one made from sugar?

 

[Bill Hall]

Save that so-called expert technical information for the rubes. Those writers are just prostitutes for companies trying to make money. I like to think we traditional guys are way above all that nonsense. And if I ever run into Toby Bridges, I would feel inclined to ask him who his pimp d'jour was that day.

My dad tries to give me his American Hunter magazines from time to time. I quickly peruse through the rag and ask where the articles are, as it's 80% ads. The best hunting magazines I know of now-a-days are Fur-fish-Game and Bugle. Down to earth stories and tips, without all the snake oil peddling. Bill

 

[Pacobillie]

Was that the April issue, as in April 1st? Let's hope so! Personally, I never put my faith in what I read in the gun mags. No siree! I get my information directly from the teenaged clerk at the big box store! Nothing like first hand knowledge!

It is the May 2012 issue.

 

[ny griz]

What redfeather said.LMAO :rotf: Griz

 

[Pacobillie]

Okay, I will ask, do they still print on presses?

Maybe not, but "Turn off the laser printers!" does not sound quite right.

 

[rcbelding]

The best hunting magazines I know of now-a-days are Fur-fish-Game and Bugle. Down to earth stories and tips, ... Bill

Gun mags are like car magazines, if they don't please the manufacturers they don't get ad dollars and they don't stay in business.

I haven't read 'Bugle', but I agree about 'FF&G'- a good magazine. My 'American Hunter' usually hits the trash unread, the only exceptions to this are when its half-read.

 

[ebiggs1]

They still use presses. :shocked2:
Seven color offset presses print hundreds of pages per minute. All so you can get your very favorite ad ladden magazine each month. :thumbsup:

 

[bubba.50]

when the wife's daddy brings me a sack of mags they get a scan and toss. very little ever gets actually read. gave up on modern writers when ol' toby bridges started puttin' pistolgrip stocks, recoil pads and scopes on his t/c hawken and braggin' 'bout what an improvement it was. have a good'en neighbors, bubba.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Those writers are just prostitutes for companies trying to make money.

Sadly, that is true. And, I have first hand experience that proves it, at least, to me. I have been a writer since 1953. At one time in the 1970s I tried to break into the big time 'slick' magazine market. I wrote a review on a new pistol and submitted it to one of the big magazines. The pistol in question was junk. I reviewed honestly. The editor wrote back complimenting my writing style. But, he asked me to rewrite the piece to put the pistol in favorable light so he wouldn't lose an advertiser. It was a long letter with tips on how to make things sound good when they weren't. I declined and that was the end of my "big time" gun magazine writing career. I save that letter until just a few years ago. Should have framed and kept it.

 

[Dphar]

According to this month's Outdoor Life magazine, "blackpowder pellets" are the "greatest muzzleloading advancement ever" (at page 25). :barf: Writer Jim Carmichael also recommends "buttering the bore" after loading, but before priming, as a way of "improving accuracy". :shocked2: :rotf:

Isn't it great that we have experts like this to enlighten us?

Actually pellets of BP have been around since the 1850s or so. Just not for ML small arms.
Large cannon powder was not pressed and broken as it was for smaller cannon, small arms and blasting powder but pressed into grains of the desired size and shape. Some had holes though the middle similar to modern IMR powders, some of the "grains" were the size of small apples I have read. These were for VERY large charges in large rifled artillery. 200 pounds of powder for a charge. It was an attempt to reduce the number of burst guns.
See USS Princeton (1843) for an example.
This continued all through the Civil War with cast iron and wrought iron guns with the large bore Naval Cannon and such being the worst offenders.
The 303 British initially used a compressed pellet of BP before Cordite was perfected. Just like cordite it was loaded in the straight "basic" cartridge case, then the case was necked, then the bullet installed.
So this is simply reinventing the wheel to make shooting a ML "easier".
I suppose with shotgun primers its OK but would be useless in a traditional sidelock percussion or Flintlock
This stuff is for people who want to "use" a "MLer" but don't want to bother to learn how.

Dan

 

[Bill Hall]

Wow, I had no idea they were so blatant about it. I figured they would throw out hints and speak in code. Not just "Hey, this is where our money comes from, make it sound good even if it's bad".

Well, that confirms everything I only assumed happens. Bill

 

[RedFeather]

One thing I have noticed about all of the gun mags. The poor fellers who read them must have lost their ram rods since just about every one has several ads in the back for Viagra, etc.

 

[David W.]

One thing I have noticed about all of the gun mags. The poor fellers who read them must have lost their ram rods since just about every one has several ads in the back for Viagra, etc.

:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[aeatwood]

Heh. Pellets: the ML answer to tracers. Except they don't generally strike where the bullet does.

 

[50cal.cliff]

Pellets aren't those the things Rabbit's leave behind.

Duh what's up Doc!

OOOOH dern that rascally rabbit!

Cartoons make for better information pages than those that are put out by someone who get's it, gets PAID TO SAY what the compmany sponsoring them has on their agenda.

You can't hear the truth from someone that doesn't really have BP in the heart! :shake: