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    Sight picture for pistol with no rear sight

    My HF pistol is .54 cal, SB, with the low brass sight, I aim down the barrel, on a man sized target I hold at waist level, at 15 yards, it tends to shoot high. Good luck
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    Kodiak question

    If you’re talking a Kodiak double rifle, then the lead weight is to help reduce recoil, high end cartridge double rifles used to have mercury tubes in the Buttstock to reduce recoil effects. The lead weight will move to counter the force.
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    why get a smoothbore?

    I like my smoothies, one practical reason is that it can hunt anything, small game with shot and big with a round ball. My short Bess has done it all, rabbits to moose, if I could only have one ml it would be a smoothbore.
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    Advice for a new ML hunter

    M number one: be sure of your shot, if you can’t get a good target Don’t Shoot. I have been hunting with ml for 45 years, I have never needed to fire a second shot at the same animal. Shot placement is the key to a quick kill.
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    Conical Terminal Performance Research

    I hunt with a .54 cal gun, in my TC NewEnglander, I use the 425 gr hbhc Great Plains bullets, 110gr 3f, shoots 1.5” groups at 100 yards. The majority of My shots are under 50 yards, taken many moose and caribou with this load. I have never recovered a spent round, all went through the animal...
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    One Or Two Bores For Everything?

    Been shooting BP for a very long time, I have accumulated a few mls. Starts at .40 up to .72. I find the .54s are used most, flint mostly. For rondies the flint .54 rifle and pistol, and my Brown Bess, an ideal gun would be a swivel breach flinter in .62 cal, rifled and smooth, sized to take the...
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    Pop can mortar help.

    If the gun uses pop can size projectiles, open top, insert a toilet paper tube and pour plaster of paris around it, pour about an inch inside tube ant let harden, then fill center with Dry plaster, cap with thin cardboard and then add a 1/2” of wet plaster. When it impacts on a solid surface it...
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    Matchlock cord not igniting powder?

    I had the same problem, I was using it on my canon. I bought salt peter ( potassium nitrate) at the pharmacy. Mixed with some water and poured on a cookie sheet, layer out the cord in it and let us soak and dry out. It produced a good hot cherry. Worked great.
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    Hello from Alaska

    What part of Alaska are you in, lots of shooters here.
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    White smoke

    I used a plastic wrap with the talc in it, powder charge is in a foil cartridge.
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    White smoke

    I have used coffee creamer before, lots of flame and smoke, it also spits bits out, don’t do it near dry grass. I had better results using talcum powder, it’s cheap in bulk. I used 1 cup in a 2” bore gun with 600 gr. Of cannon powder. The audience loved it. And very safe.
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    Shooting Round balls without using patches...does that work??

    I have done that during speed shoots, especially after a few patched balls when the fouling builds up., we were shooting 12” long 2x4and2x6 boards, range out to 30 yards. No problem with accuracy. I would not do it when clean, ball could move to much.
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    Slow Match Help!

    I use 3/8” cotton cord, soak it in potassium nitrate over night then hang to dry, glows hot and is very reliable.
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    How do you store your flints?

    I carry a few in my shooting bag, flint wallet, all the rest are in bags in my shooting box.
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    1-48" bullet choice for elk

    Haven’t shot an Elk, but I have killed a dozen moose and a few caribou using a .54 rifle, the best load I have found is 110 gr of 3f, 425 gr hornady Great Plains bullets. Shots from 30feet to 125 yards. None traveled more than 50 yards after hit, several dropped in their tracks, all but one was...
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    Handgonnes

    The powder used back then was very crude, large grains of variable performance. I would suggest using 1F powder, it’s bulky without overloading. At .70 cal, I would use a .690 patched lead ball. 2.3 drams is about 62 grains. Be sure to proof the barrel from a safe distance.
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    Overpriced sellers

    Reminds me of a shop I went to in seaside, great looking items from the window, could see a harpers ferry rifle for sale, plus other cool stuff. Went in when it opened. Was looking at the rifle, owner said it was original wanted $2800 for it. When I looked at it close up, it was a Japanese...
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    Cannon balls

    It’s a great gun to shoot, took lots of practice to get good accuracy have had it since 1993, lots of range time.
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    Cannon balls

    My 1lb gun I have used a patched ball and bare ball, I found no difference in accuracy, I always use the bare ball, less chance of flaming debris everywhere. Gun is accurate enough to hit a 30 gal drum at 300 yards, and I have hit a 55gal drum at 900 yards about 1 in 3 shots, all were very close.
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    Remember your First ML kill?

    Boy, long time ago, my first ml rifle was a flintlock in .45 cal, shot my first whitetail deer, a big doe at 30 yards, prb with 70 gr of 3f, I remember she ran after the shot, was gone when smoke cleared, found her 50 yards away piled up under a tree. That was 1976. Sorry no pictures
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