Marinekayak
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So I posted about my successful dropping of a nice six pointer the other day, but I wanted opinions on my pre hunt cleaning.
Before I hunted I took my Pedersoli Frontier .54 to a local range to verify my zero. I had traveled from Virginia to CT and you never know I may have bumped the sights. I put in a fresh flint and loaded my hunting load .530 round ball with .010 patch and 80gr of 2ffg and TOW lube. This load groups well and is very easy to load. Much easier than .535 balls and a thicker patch. Hunting accuracy not match accuracy. I put a 50 foot slow fire pistol target up at 50 yards and fired 3 shots all in the black.
now I'm cleaning. Warm soapy water, patches on the rod and pump until running clear. The I run some hoppes BP solvents until the patches are clean then some dry patches. I put some rubbing alcohol down the bore to make sure all the water was out.
I took out the vent liner and cleaned it well. I don't usually but I wanted to minimize any chance of failure. Then pipe cleaners to clean and dry the patent breach. I put it all back together then a light patch of modern oil. I use FP-10. Then a last dry patch. Stored it barrel down overnight. In the am one last dry patch to get any oil out and I loaded for hunting. I left the same flint on the rifle it only had three shots on it and was still sharp.
The shot I fired was instantaneous ignition. I think I did my pre hunt rifle
Prep right. I guess I'm asking if I missed anything? It worked but I still learning. When I went from half to full cock on that deer I said quite a few please go bang prayers!
Before I hunted I took my Pedersoli Frontier .54 to a local range to verify my zero. I had traveled from Virginia to CT and you never know I may have bumped the sights. I put in a fresh flint and loaded my hunting load .530 round ball with .010 patch and 80gr of 2ffg and TOW lube. This load groups well and is very easy to load. Much easier than .535 balls and a thicker patch. Hunting accuracy not match accuracy. I put a 50 foot slow fire pistol target up at 50 yards and fired 3 shots all in the black.
now I'm cleaning. Warm soapy water, patches on the rod and pump until running clear. The I run some hoppes BP solvents until the patches are clean then some dry patches. I put some rubbing alcohol down the bore to make sure all the water was out.
I took out the vent liner and cleaned it well. I don't usually but I wanted to minimize any chance of failure. Then pipe cleaners to clean and dry the patent breach. I put it all back together then a light patch of modern oil. I use FP-10. Then a last dry patch. Stored it barrel down overnight. In the am one last dry patch to get any oil out and I loaded for hunting. I left the same flint on the rifle it only had three shots on it and was still sharp.
The shot I fired was instantaneous ignition. I think I did my pre hunt rifle
Prep right. I guess I'm asking if I missed anything? It worked but I still learning. When I went from half to full cock on that deer I said quite a few please go bang prayers!
