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03-16-2010 | 10:51 AM

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cayugad

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Flintlock fooling around

A beautiful day here in Northern Wisconsin, 48 degrees, sunny, a little wind.. nice no jacket required weather. I decided to shoot a flintlock today, so I picked the Lyman Trade Rifle in .54 caliber. I have not shot it for a while and had purchased some 250 grain XTP sabots (sabots included) on sale at a store. I tried some of them in my CVA .54 with no luck, and I have had the Lyman shoot sabots pretty good in the past, so I decided to try that rifle.

I started out with 90 grains of Goex 2f, 4f primer powder, a cut agate flint, and .530 roundball and moose milk combination.

As usual, the rifle threw the first shot. But the next five were good and tight. A little off the bull but at 30 yards I am not going to get too excited at this point. The rifle's ignition time was flawless.

I then swabbed the bore and loaded 90 grains of powder and this time the 250 sabots. I was too lazy to change targets, so I shot five rounds at the same target.

I was too lazy to swab. If I had swabbed, I might have got a tighter group. As the barrel fouled, it started to move them to the right a little. BUT it was a lot of fun.

I then swabbed the barrel clean and noticed that some of the grapefruit that had become science experiments in the refrigerator and discarded this winter were now showing their evil heads in my melting snow.

I then hammered them with a 250 grain XTP's. You can really make a frozen grapefruit fly when you hit them. A LOT of fun there.

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