Steve drove over today for his first experiance shooting an inline muzzleloader. He brought with him is new Knight MHC to start wringing that new gun out.
We did an initial cleaning and lubing here on te gun loaded up the gear and headed to the farm.
I loaded up the first round for him. We set a target at 25 yards, hoping that we would be on the paper... Actually I had checked here with a laser bore sighter and thought it was close.
He loaded the next bunch shots himself and kept punching holes. We did not try to move the factory sights as he will be changing them to a different sight soon.
We had also taken a couple of my guns that were sighted in to shoot also as I wanted hime to shoot a Williams FP sight and the second gun a DISC Elite with a scope. Both of these guns were thumbholes.
Here is a few pictures of the adventures....
You can see the paper got boring so I placed clay pigeons out at different ranges and elevations... I think Steve really liked shooting them. You can see in the bottom right picture he was shooting a 60 yard bird and when the smoke cleared the out line of the bird was still there.... His first words..."I can not believe I missed that bird!!!" I looked at it with the glasses and said Steve you didn't miss you shot the center of the bird out and just the rim remains standing... He was much happier with that report.
I do believe he might now be hooked on shooting ML's and I am thinking that a regular pisto grip stock is not going to work for him - he really likes the thumbholes.....
It was a good day....
Washatonian @ the Farm...
Thanks Mike, that was a blast!
