Never have. And yes, rate of twist is going to be a factor mitigating against firing of minie balls.Okay folks: How many of you have fired minie balls in a flintlock. Aside from being period incorrect, any problems or concerns doing this? I'm thinking rate of twist of the rifling might be one issue.
One must have a good bit of historical data stored in the DNA for the love of shooting a flintlock and PRB! In my opinion nothing could be more revolting than shooting anything other than a PRB in a flintlock or Hawken type rifle!
One must have a good bit of historical data stored in the DNA for the love of shooting a flintlock and PRB! In my opinion nothing could be more revolting than shooting anything other than a PRB in a flintlock or Hawken type rifle!
LD, I have a T/C flint carbine with fast twist that I shoot the Lee Minnie out of. It's reasonably accurate and i have killed one deer with this combo.
What if the hollow base was filled with a moldable hardening substance, to perform somewhat as the wooden plugs that were used in minies.
By the way, one of the problems with minies is they're being hollow based limits their utility in many rifles. If you jack up the loads hot enough to slam shut the rifling grooves then you're over powering the design of the bullet. That's why plain flat based bullets with a card wad found favor in muzzleloaders designed for long range accuracy. Sooo...
What if the hollow base was filled with a moldable hardening substance, to perform somewhat as the wooden plugs that were used in minies. Then could a card wad be used behind the minie? This has had me scratching my head and wanting to do some experimentation. The badminton birdie flight characteristics of the minie would still be preserved to a large extent. The card wad wouldn't become lodged in the hollow base. And perhaps the bullet would behave in the barrel as a plain base and thus resist gas cutting better, be usable with slow twists as are minies...
And all those .575 minie molds are there just waiting to be tried.
Any how, it's just something I'm kinda threatenin' to try some day.
There's more than a couple of threads that talk of putting body putty (Bondo) in the base of a minie ball and the resultant improvement in accuracy. Search the Forum for Bondo.
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