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Braintan
stickbender:
I have an Italian made, side by side 12 gauge cap lock, that I used, Winchester, Double A wads over the powder, and a punched out wad from a Styrofoam meat tray, and one over the shot. I used to shoot doves with it, and had to shoot, then duck down, to see where the dove fell. But it patterned very well, and shot buck shot excellent also. When I was using it at a dove shoot with some friends, I took my Ithaca 12 gauge pump, because the doves were flying in frequent flocks, so I would shoot with my muzzle loader, and then take my model 37 and go pick up my doves, and then shoot some more with my Ithaca, and pick them up and go back to my place near the tree line, and if I had time, I would reload the muzzle loader, and shoot it again. I was a lot of fun, and the funniest part was my Buddy said the guys on the other side of the field, kept asking what the hell kind of gun is he shooting, it sounds like a cannon!
Wayne
chamookman:
Thanks for the pics Guy, but You are killing Me. I'm just getting into the whole Flint Lock game. Have chosen the Era and My Persona and a Trade Gun will be My first Flinter. A Bud and I are building Kits this winter. Have had Percusion Guns in the past and looking forward to the transition. Seems that Primitive Archery & Flintlocks just go hand and hand. Bob
Eric Krewson:
Have you watched Mike's series on building a bucks county kit Bob? Long with a lot of segments but will give you an idea of what you are getting in to.
Here is the starting segment;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJBNg_NLASA
I have a TOW Issac Hanes kit waiting in the wings for a future build. I picked it up off the Stickbow classified of all places for about half what it was worth. A guy bought it and realized he didn't have the skills to put it together. He traded it to another guy for several bows. The second guy wanted to turn it over for some cash so I snapped it up. It has the best parts and wood and would cost about $1100 from Track. I got it for half that.
Abo:
I'll have to try a half wad and see what it does. Hadn't tried anything different since I tried it making paper shells and just dumping the powder and shoving
the rest down and shooting but it knocked a hole in the pattern that's when I went to the kork wads. I need to experiment more also with rounball to. No Mullet I didn't make the shelter it from Panther Primitives. I have a 12x12 hunter piaramid also. They are sunforger fire retarded canvas.
chamookman:
Thanks Eric, I'll check that out. Bob
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