Herb
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Flint held his Frolick up Dry Fork Canyon October 27, the eighth one I know of. There were 11 shooters, black powder and some .22 shooting, I don't know why. The top three shooters shoot a special target for winner. That's the three with rifles, Neill on left is just there to show another shooter.
Here I am shooting my .54 caplock Hawken I built, off Jim's deck at the special target. I had the only caplock there, and that was because my two flintlocks, one of them a .58 fullstock Hawken, and the other a 44" x 15/16" .40 Jacob Wigle, are too heavy for me to shoot offhand any more. The big boys kicked sand in my face over this.
The target was propped against the back legs of the buffalo, Jim said it was 100 to 120 yards away. That bullet track in the snow under the tail is the result of using 22 and a half grains of powder in a .50 caliber flintlock- or some such light target load.
Here is Flint and me with the traditional German target. The winner was the shot nearst the head. Mine cut the top edge. Sand in my eyes, you know....
Here are some of the gals. All of them shoot, but only three shot today. Carole is holding my Hawken. We had good chili and wine and visiting afterwards. The next shoot is here the Saturday a week after Thanksgiving. Maybe I'll have my English Sporting rifle done by then, 31" swamped .54 flint, will weigh about 7.5 pounds. Don't like that sand in my eyes.
Here I am shooting my .54 caplock Hawken I built, off Jim's deck at the special target. I had the only caplock there, and that was because my two flintlocks, one of them a .58 fullstock Hawken, and the other a 44" x 15/16" .40 Jacob Wigle, are too heavy for me to shoot offhand any more. The big boys kicked sand in my face over this.
The target was propped against the back legs of the buffalo, Jim said it was 100 to 120 yards away. That bullet track in the snow under the tail is the result of using 22 and a half grains of powder in a .50 caliber flintlock- or some such light target load.
Here is Flint and me with the traditional German target. The winner was the shot nearst the head. Mine cut the top edge. Sand in my eyes, you know....
Here are some of the gals. All of them shoot, but only three shot today. Carole is holding my Hawken. We had good chili and wine and visiting afterwards. The next shoot is here the Saturday a week after Thanksgiving. Maybe I'll have my English Sporting rifle done by then, 31" swamped .54 flint, will weigh about 7.5 pounds. Don't like that sand in my eyes.
