and I can't stands no more."
to quote a famous sailorman.

All this talk of shooting and poor little me not haveing had the chance to get out and do my homework for Master Semisane, has sent me over the edge!

It was a nice balmy 10'F with about a 20 MPH wind crossing right to left. On the good side, the Sun was shining. I took the day off to get some hotwater tank work done but he couldn't make it and I couldn't see my butt going to work, so.........

I decided to do some shooting with the Lyman .50 GPR Flintlock. Load for all shots was 90 gr 3F Goex (measured in the deer antler measure I made, 45 gr / pour http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/HuntAway/108-0810_IMG.jpg), .010 dry lubed patch, .495 Hornady ball. Prime was 3f as well. Range about 30 - 35 yds tromping through jingle deep snow.

Today I figured I would shoot as I would as if in a stand hunting. That is, sitting in a folding lawn chair and using a pair of made on the spot shooting sticks.

If you all remember I had a little fall one day and broke the fibre optic front sight. I put the new one on today and with no adjustments it shot fairly well.

My first shot was the low one in the tape all the rest are on the plate. That's a 5 shot string around the bull. I only fired 14 shots because I wanted to try one of those CO2 unloader thingy's. So I loaded up as per normal then hooked up the unloader and dishcharged it. It worked like a charm and blew the powder, patch and ball clean out of the barrel. Stupid me didn't have anything to catch the ball and it buried in the snow.[:@]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v445/HuntAway/108-0830_IMG.jpg

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that's a nice looking powder measure you got there.



That is a mighty nice looking rifle.. and some darn good shooting to boot...



very nice string of shots there... those flintlocks are sure pretty. And a lot of fun to shoot. Semisane better give you an A+ on your homework assignment..

Thanks Dave. I'm hopeing for a B at least.

Darn good shootin` there, HuntAway. A+ easy.

What kind of sight picture do you use with those FO sights - cover the bull, or six o`clock hold?
Did you have any flashes in the pan or failures to flash?

Sorry about the balls buried in the snow. That's gotta` be collllddd.

Chilly it was. lol

I had a few FIP's but they were due to me not following procedure thinking I could take a short cut. Shortcut's and flintlocks don't seem to go together very well.[:@]

My sight picture on the first shot was with my eye's closed.

Since that didn't work too well I decided to at least keep one eye open and try to cover the bull. I goofed on my shooting sticks as I didn't have any string to tie the bottom of the legs so they wouldn't slip. (Note to file for next time.)

I've used the old eyes closed technique a few times. Never worked for me either.

Good shooting!!! You'll find your lost balls when the snow melts!!

Nice shootin.

Way to warm to shoot here, Low 60's

Low 60's??????

We haven't seen a heat wave like that since September.

I can't even get to the range 4 ft drifts I could shoot at 25 yds but that is it. I will wait until spring