Well maybe not snipeing but I did hit the target 4 out of 6 times. Strange pattern as I started low right and the shots strung from there to high left and off the plate? Not the wind as it was calm out. Maybe me as I'm a lefty? Will have to play off the bench one of these day's to take the "Me" factor out of the equation.

Rifle - Lyman GPR .50 cal Flintlock w/ RMC V-Peep rear sight and Fibre Optic Front Sight
Load - 90 gr 3F Goex, 4F Goex Prime, .490 Speer Round Ball, .019 Blue Stripe Pillow Tick for a Patch, English Gun Flints knapped by Tom Fuller (or so they say)
Winds - Calm
Shootin Position - Sitting with Shooting Sticks
Range - 100 yds Lasered




The patches were in really good shape and looklike they could be used again.




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HuntAway

Looks darn good to me...

Thanks Sabotloader.

Any idea what might cause that kind of stringing? The two that missed continued at about the same spaceing and angle. You could almost draw a straight line between the 6 of them.

HA

At that distance with a rock sparker and a patched round ball with open sights... I am not sure that the tilted verticle string is anything that would be of concern. What kind of rest were you shooting off of? At a 100 yards a very little difference in muzzle area is amplified even more at 100.

Normally but not always stringing and even a tilted string like that would indicate the barrel warming and pushing on a pressure point in the stock. Especially if the the hole near the bottom was the first shot and then it continued to string up and left. Probably a pressure point near the end of the stock on the right bottom side of the barrel...

If it were the opposite it might be the recoil causing the barrel to settle into the the stock...

Just guessing...

Is check the stock for rub marks. Nice shooting though.

I was useing a set of shooting sticks Stoney point polecat. The shots were from bottom right to top left in order. Each shot got progressively high and left. Even the 2 off the plate carried on the same spaceing and angle.

I guess the first shot is the most important one in any case and it was right where it needed to be.

Thanks for your input.

HA

With a rock lock at that distance the stringing like that would most likely be an indication of a bit of movement after the trigger pull. It is still very good shooting under those conditions, if you want to work for better I would suggest working on the follow through.

HuntAway

The only thing I can say... You should be darn proud of that 100 yard target shooting off sticks, shooting a PRB, with open sights and a rock sparker

Yup! I agree.

Thanks,

I was quite surprised as well. The front sight covered the plate so I was putting the plate on top of the sight so I could see it. After my first shot I got my binos out and said to myself Holy Crap I hit it!

50calty,
I checked for rub marks when I cleaned the rifle and didn't notice any.

lemoyne
I'll work on my follow through. I'll have to try off a bench to see what happens. Maybe even put my seeing glasses on instead of the safety glasses. Probably mess me up though.

I don't have to shoot half that far where I hunt so this was, well, just to see if I could.

Thanks again all.

HA