RE: Good Day with a Flintlock
 

This is what happens when you shoot large conicals into my trap. Now I really thought this contraption would slow it all down. The conical passes through the target hitting a large stump. From there it has to blow through the stump. (which I managed to do of course)


After breaking the plate the last time out with the White Rifles, the conicals were able to push the remaining steel plates apart as you can see. This resulted in a few of them sneaking out of the trap. Well the tree that the whole target trap is tied into, as you can see took a couple direct hits.

This resulted in the cutting of a nice tree.. off. So the next time someone tells you or asks you if these muzzleloaders really have any knock down power. You can ask them, would you feel safe standing behind a tree stump backed up with steel plates and maybe another tree in front of you, all of this to stop the bullets?





This weekend I pick up six more plates. I am going to put a buffer between the double set of plates so that when the bullets hit the first series of plates, they will actually move slightly on the padded buffer (rubber cow mat). This should take most of the energy out of them. From there they will still have a second series of steel plates to make it through, and after that I really do not have any other way to stop them..

I was going to fill the trap with sand to catch the lead but after falling into a large lead supply I really do not feel like messing with dirty lead anymore and the extra weight of the sand up in the trap will be a mess..

RE: Good Day with a Flintlock
 

this is what the stump looks like after being hit by large conical bullets.

RE: Good Day with a Flintlock
 

We have property and relatives in both the Upper Peninsula of Mich. and in Minnesota. One of these days, we'll be traveling through Wisconsin to visit. I figure that once I hit the Wisconsin border, all I'll have to do is open the car window and follow the sound of shooting right to CAYUGAD's back yard! ;)