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Where the buffalo roam...

Post by RanchRoper » Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:12 pm

Beautiful day out on the frontier. Let's set the scene first of all....
(my wife took the photo near Waterton Park)


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Now for some black powder shooting....my .50 cal Frontier rifle, 50 grains Triple 7 powder, .015 patch and .490 lead ball.


Some 50 yd off hand work, very satisfied with this one....


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Then a double sided target....the black dots are on the back of a 100 yd effort off hand (just masking the holes), and the back side of the same sheet I set up at 250 yds just to see if I could even hit it...2 shots and got it once! You can see the tear in the paper. Not bad for primitive sights, and off hand shooting! Aiming just over the top of the white sheet of paper....lots of drop as you can see but my elevation was not far off and windage a little off too. Quite the delay between the shot and the sound of the hit.


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Here you can see the sheet of paper on the 250 yd....that's a long way out there. I even zoomed in for the photo too.



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Hope you enjoyed my little frontier adventure, shoot safe....RR :)



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Re: Where the buffalo roam...

Post by Shakey Jake » Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:44 pm

Thanks for the pics and great shooting!
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Re: Where the buffalo roam...

Post by Sir Henry » Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:47 pm

That is great offhand shooting. Your offhand at 50 was better than my bench at 25.
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Re: Where the buffalo roam...

Post by Steve51 » Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:54 pm

That is great shooting!
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Re: Where the buffalo roam...

Post by RanchRoper » Mon Sep 06, 2021 5:07 pm

Thanks guys!
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Re: Where the buffalo roam...

Post by BigAl52 » Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:42 pm

Nice shootin wish I was there. Shot my Plains pistola the other day on the plains.
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Re: Where the buffalo roam...

Post by RanchRoper » Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:14 pm

Warm Sept weather right now. 70's all week and cooling off next weekend to the 60's. Nights are in the low 40's now mostly.
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Re: Where the buffalo roam...

Post by North Country Gal » Mon Sep 06, 2021 8:21 pm

Amazing, as always. Always so much more to your posts than a range report. Love them.
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Re: Where the buffalo roam...

Post by Rifletom » Mon Sep 06, 2021 8:33 pm

North Country Gal wrote:
Mon Sep 06, 2021 8:21 pm
Amazing, as always. Always so much more to your posts than a range report. Love them.
Agreed. Fine shooting there RR. Great day on the Plains.
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Re: Where the buffalo roam...

Post by RanchRoper » Mon Sep 06, 2021 8:51 pm

Thank you very much for the kind words.
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