Muskets, who needs em. Why you can’t hit anything, shooters shut their eyes and just pointed. Had to fire volleys cause no one shooter could hit a target.
To that everyone with a smidgen of experience we know that if not as close as a rifle at least it’s a killer in the deer woods or battlefield and can serve on most woods walks where gongs and such are often the target
Good shooters of military muskets can get off four shots a minute, the British requirement.
I was once in a competition over seen by Ted Spring shooting paper plates at twenty five yards timed at three minutes and forty five seconds, enough time for fifteen shots, I got nine shooting PRB in my smoothie.
After the shoot Spring demonstrated his own skill. Twenty one shots in that time.
I don’t speed load any more, but @Black Powder Maniac Mark posted watching some NSSA boys shoot speed loading competitions, sounded like a battle.
Loading cartridge and shooting as fast as you can has anyone tried a musket at fifty or a hundred yards,and really looked to their group. Not a woods walk where you just need a ting but a real target shoot.
Not a useful skill since Redcoats Frogs and Injuns don’t cause too much trouble these days.
Most of the time you get just one shot at a deer
I’m thinking I may need to give it a try, could I get five shots on a man sized target at a hundred yards in two min( 25 seconds per shot…. Priming separately)
Little Devil on my shoulder
To that everyone with a smidgen of experience we know that if not as close as a rifle at least it’s a killer in the deer woods or battlefield and can serve on most woods walks where gongs and such are often the target
Good shooters of military muskets can get off four shots a minute, the British requirement.
I was once in a competition over seen by Ted Spring shooting paper plates at twenty five yards timed at three minutes and forty five seconds, enough time for fifteen shots, I got nine shooting PRB in my smoothie.
After the shoot Spring demonstrated his own skill. Twenty one shots in that time.
I don’t speed load any more, but @Black Powder Maniac Mark posted watching some NSSA boys shoot speed loading competitions, sounded like a battle.
Loading cartridge and shooting as fast as you can has anyone tried a musket at fifty or a hundred yards,and really looked to their group. Not a woods walk where you just need a ting but a real target shoot.
Not a useful skill since Redcoats Frogs and Injuns don’t cause too much trouble these days.
Most of the time you get just one shot at a deer
I’m thinking I may need to give it a try, could I get five shots on a man sized target at a hundred yards in two min( 25 seconds per shot…. Priming separately)
Little Devil on my shoulder
