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ORIGINAL: Matt / PA

Well I got out to the range today after the thunderstorms rolled through.........humidity was about one million percent. Whew was it muggy. I wasn't holding out much hope for quick ignition times from the ol' T/C Flinter but she didn't dissapoint as usual.

I don't think I have ever had a more reliable and accurate gun in my life...........of course there's a lot of attention to detail involved and our crew has the flintlock thing pretty well ironed out by now. We have a few tuning and prep secrets we use and tehse things go off almost as quick as a darn centerfire. I'm always surprised when guys around me comment at how fast they go BANG when it's done correctly. LOL:D

Anyway.......I digress.

I ran a couple of the 300gr Harvester Sabertooth bullets down her at 50 yards (3 to be exact) to see how they grouped and they did NOT dissapoint. First shot was 2" low at 50 yards because I forgot my exact hold on that rifle but it was perfectly dead down the middle. Next shot was my preferred front sight on 1/2 center dot and it was 1/2" low of dead center right down the middle again.
3rd shot without cleaning I might add I managed to duplicate the same hold and when the smoke cleared and the binos came up I couldn't find the 3rd hole?:eek:
I had one of those.......'What the?" moments.

Walked out to the target to look at what went wrong andthe 3rd bullet went almost precisely through the 2nd hole barely cutting a little bit of a notch above it. For all intents and purposes it was same hole.
:)

So basically if I would have held correctly on bullet #1 I could have potentially had a 3 shot one hole group with an open sighted flintlock. Not too shabby for the weather and heat and the fact that my shooting glasses were fogging like crazy too! LOL
I would have shot more but man it's just not a ton of fun when the smoke just HANGS all over you like a blanket in the humidity.

To sum it up, even with a limited range session I couldn't have been more impressed, all 3 bullets were in the center of the target centerline not even a 1/8" off left or right.

Load was 100grs of Goex black FFFg , Harvester 300gr Sabertooth bullet.
Gun is a custom T/C Pennsylvania Hunter (old style stepped round barrel)

If these new bullets perform as well as they seem to shoot I think I have another bullet choice that should flip those PA whitetails nicely. :)When it cools a bit I'll really run em' through the ringer but for now I'm pretty happy with that little purchase.

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