cayugad& yooper
I provided my local commisioner with those same thoughts on the economic problems that the new regulations that they are proposing to implement. Economy always trump people... I was in the Balck Sheep in CDL, they had 11 Idaho legal inlines on dsiplay and the counterman said numerous relacements in the store room - not to mention the sabots and other inline supplies in the isles.. very few conicals and an assortment of round balls. If this proposal flies, and from what I am hearing now, it is in serious jeporady, it will certainly come down next year. --- now enough with the Idaho stuff - we will know by the end of the week.
I am sliding off the main point of the thread, and that being Sabotloader shooting a Renegade with 1:48 twist and getting good results with conicals. I do not have any .54 caliber conicals around anymore. I do have plenty of .50 caliber, so maybe we will see how well they do out of a 1:48 Hawkins flintlock. Might be a good reason to get out on the range.
Dave i would really like to know your results with the longer concicals in one of your 1/48's. It seems to me when I was talking to Dave Stevens (No Excuses) he was not to excited about promising me great results from the 1/48, but from the 1/28 he was excited to tell me that they would shoot great. As you know this conical thing is a new thing to me, but most of the reading I have done always indicates short ptojectiles for a 1/48 - that is why I am even doing the experimenting.
I am headed to Strychnine this morning - going to shoot the Renegade again @ clay pigeons, but I am also taking my old 1894 Winchester 30-30 along and sight it in - my hunting partner got his grand dads old Marlin 30-30 in an estate deal and he wants to do some 30-30 whitetail hunting this year also - so I guess i want to get mine ready also, do not want to him to be able to say he did something in the hunting field I didn't...