Yeah, it was part of a six bull with a 3 inch bullseye.
And Halftail, it was only shot at 25 yards. I was quite pleased with the old Charleville yesterday although I missed a few long shots. Those were my fault not the gun's. Just a little while before, I hit a 3/4" steel rod hanging from a wire between two trees at nearly 30 yards. And yet missed a 6 inch plate at 35. Go figure.
We had started the shoot-off by attaching a cleaning patch to a dead log with a wood peg at about 25 yards. Both of us made the patch move and when we investigated, we found that we didn't touch the patch, but our bullets appeared to hit behind the patch near it's edge. We figured it was concussion or something we couldn't explain, so we gave that up as a bad job and went down to the main range. I had some targets in my truck and I stuck this one up out at the 25 backer. The feller I was shooting against hadn't shot in about six months and was out of practice. This gives you some idea how good a shot he is. I'd say I was pretty lucky. The other bullet hole at the bottom was from a previous shoot. I save a lot of old targets and usually tape over the holes. Old Tightwad they call me.
While I was there, I tried a new shot load with the musket at 25 yds. 1 1/8 oz. of No.5 over 70 grs. ffg. Pretty durn dense for cylinder bore. I'm starting to like smoothies more and more. Very versatile weapon!
