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  1. 11th corps

    March Postal Match Target Ready to Shoot

    About 50 degrees on this sunny Friday. T/C hawken flintlock .50 .490 RB 50 grains of 3F Pillow tick patch Not sure about the right cloverleaf. bottom shot touched the leaf and the stem. Anyway I shot from a sitting position.
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    Contaminated lead?

    Could be your alloy. Do you use range scrap? Are you sure your mold blocks are closing fully? Lee molds have a tendency to drop a few thou oversize for me.
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    February Postal Match Target

    We have an incredibly nice day here in the Heartland for late Feb. Sunny, mid 60's. We will pay for this with crappy weather tomorrow most likely. Northwest Trade Gun flintlock smoothbore .600 round ball with pillow tick patch, maxi lube 60 grains of 2F. Shots 9 and 10 did not make the paper...
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    January Postal Match Target

    Gary, thanks for all the hard work you put into the monthly match.
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    January Postal Match Target

    Well I made it out on this final day of January and all I could muster was a sad little 5 points. 1861 replica springfield musket. .58 caliber patched round balls. 60 grains of 777. Off hand, unsupported. No excuses. The temp was near 40 degrees/no snow or rain and light wind. Then when I...
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    How you fill your pan makes no difference ...

    I remember the manual for one of the first T/C hawken flintlocks I purchased. It mentioned filling the pan and making sure some of the powder got to the touch hole. I've always had better luck keeping my powder at the far end of the pan, but to each their own.
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    How you fill your pan makes no difference ...

    Probably didn't matter if it went off or not. They were going to do their work with Cold Steel anyway.
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    January Postal Match Target

    Went out today. It was cold and I finally gave up. Will try again later this month.
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    January Postal Match Target

    Target printed. will try to get out to the range tomorrow with my .40 poor boy.
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    newbie from Chicago

    Welcome from north eastern Indiana.
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    December 2023 Postal Match

    Shoot Gary. Here in north eastern Indiana we would call the 40's in late December Indian Summer.
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    December 2023 Postal Match

    Gary, You've probably heard this before but Mike Venturino says there is no documentation that he can find that shows smoothbores being loaded with patches during the colonial period. So he shoots bare ball with tow or cardboard iirc over the top of the ball. I just wanted to try it, but was...
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    December 2023 Postal Match

    Glorious day in the Heartland. Mid 40's, no wind, sunny. Northwest Trade Gun smoothbore flintlock .600 round ball, spit patch-well most of the time. 60 grains of 3F I was very pleased with two 10 shots. I did have a hangfire and that one landed outside the scoring zone. The high right strike...
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    Period correct rangefinder

    When I opened this thread I expected to see a pic of a yardstick.
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    What Was Under Your Tree?

    I found a DVD copy of "the Revenant" at a thrift store that raises funds for an animal shelter. It cost a Dollar. Gave it to a friend.
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    What Was Under Your Tree?

    Lee 6 cavity mold
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    Help, I have an Addiction!

    Interesting. If you don't mind could you send me a PM and let me know how you did this? I am in the same boat.
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    Barry Lyndon movie fakery.

    I watched Barry Lyndon again just a month or so ago. It's still a good picture. Stanley K was a film genius. You need to suspend reality when watching the movies. They are not documentaries.
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    TC Hawken Single Trigger Kit

    Why would you want to remove the double trigger? You can fire the gun without using the set trigger. Is the goal to have heavier trigger pull?
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