Black Powder Fun....1800 style
Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 6:01 pm
Pedersoli Frontier .50 cal
.490 lead ball with .015 patch
Triple 7 powder, 50 grains
45F and only a slight breeze. A little rain on & off. Had the range to myself for several hours. Awesome. A variety of targets today and have to say this is now my favorite rifle to shoot. The smoke, the kaboom, the big thump when it hits the backboard and the whole primitiveness of it all is exhilarating.
In order of distance although this is not necessarily the order I shot them in:
25 yds, off hand...tried to do it with 1 but it took 2....this is not even a target it is one of those dots for filling target holes, left it on the wood for the pic so you can see no other rounds fired. But I tried one last range trip and could not get it so today I got even.
50 yds off hand, left it on the wood so you can see there were not other rounds fired....
50 yds off hand
50 yds 1 kee....smaller target, I like these little targets quite a bit, they make me dial in
100 yds, 1 knee....pretty happy with this one but the next one is even better....
200 YARDS...this is from sitting at a bench resting my elbows, base of the front sight almost at the top of the buckhorns....lucky there was no breeze at all when I shot these...think I called it a day after that. Anything close to a bullseye would a wild stroke of luck only. Just happy to hit the paper.
Great fun today!!!
Shoot safe, RR
.490 lead ball with .015 patch
Triple 7 powder, 50 grains
45F and only a slight breeze. A little rain on & off. Had the range to myself for several hours. Awesome. A variety of targets today and have to say this is now my favorite rifle to shoot. The smoke, the kaboom, the big thump when it hits the backboard and the whole primitiveness of it all is exhilarating.
In order of distance although this is not necessarily the order I shot them in:
25 yds, off hand...tried to do it with 1 but it took 2....this is not even a target it is one of those dots for filling target holes, left it on the wood for the pic so you can see no other rounds fired. But I tried one last range trip and could not get it so today I got even.
- May 2-21 25 yds off hand.jpg (80.54 KiB) Viewed 1312 times
50 yds off hand, left it on the wood so you can see there were not other rounds fired....
- May 2nd 50 yds off hand1.jpeg (76.97 KiB) Viewed 1312 times
50 yds off hand
- May 2nd 50 yds off hand.jpeg (74.92 KiB) Viewed 1312 times
50 yds 1 kee....smaller target, I like these little targets quite a bit, they make me dial in
- May 2nd 50 yds 1 knee.jpeg (84.63 KiB) Viewed 1312 times
100 yds, 1 knee....pretty happy with this one but the next one is even better....
- May 2nd 100 yds.jpeg (85.89 KiB) Viewed 1312 times
200 YARDS...this is from sitting at a bench resting my elbows, base of the front sight almost at the top of the buckhorns....lucky there was no breeze at all when I shot these...think I called it a day after that. Anything close to a bullseye would a wild stroke of luck only. Just happy to hit the paper.
- May 2nd 200 yds.jpeg (84.56 KiB) Viewed 1312 times
Great fun today!!!
Shoot safe, RR
- May 2-21 Frontier.jpg (84.97 KiB) Viewed 1312 times
