Buck Conner1
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Here's a tip to help you save time, money - and stop flinching when shooting a flinter or a percussion cap firearm.
For the last 50 years I have used what the 10X folks do for practice when shooting a muzzleloader, no different than the cartridge guys using the practice non-firing rounds.
The percussion guns are easy, use a spent cap or one of the plastic caps sold at the store. Saves beating up a good nipple and cushions the hammer fall.
Same for a flinter, use a wood wedge (chip) in the jaws on the hammer. Saves beating up your frizzen and like the percussion hammer saves that jarring on your flinter.
This is pretty straight forward and you probably know this, but here's where you get better at what your shooting.
When practicing shooting your firearm stand in front of a full length mirror and watch what your doing. Look yourself over from head to toe, your looking for poor stance, foot placement, how your upper body is positioned, arms and hand hold, head position. You'll be amazed at what you find your doing and didn't even think about it.
Start working on correcting your mistakes to a the new stance and get comfortable so it becomes natural. Use as many positions as possible so it works for target shooting to hunting positions (that maybe real off the wall for that one shot chance).
Now that seems like a lot, but needs to be practiced. When standing at the mirror in position, watch the end of the muzzle (its going to be going in a small circle). After making your body position corrections now your at the area of targeting in on better shots. We want to learn to control that muzzle to a smaller circle and finally a solid point of aim for that 10X whether on paper or making that heart shot. :Red tup:
For the last 50 years I have used what the 10X folks do for practice when shooting a muzzleloader, no different than the cartridge guys using the practice non-firing rounds.
The percussion guns are easy, use a spent cap or one of the plastic caps sold at the store. Saves beating up a good nipple and cushions the hammer fall.
Same for a flinter, use a wood wedge (chip) in the jaws on the hammer. Saves beating up your frizzen and like the percussion hammer saves that jarring on your flinter.
This is pretty straight forward and you probably know this, but here's where you get better at what your shooting.
When practicing shooting your firearm stand in front of a full length mirror and watch what your doing. Look yourself over from head to toe, your looking for poor stance, foot placement, how your upper body is positioned, arms and hand hold, head position. You'll be amazed at what you find your doing and didn't even think about it.
Start working on correcting your mistakes to a the new stance and get comfortable so it becomes natural. Use as many positions as possible so it works for target shooting to hunting positions (that maybe real off the wall for that one shot chance).
Now that seems like a lot, but needs to be practiced. When standing at the mirror in position, watch the end of the muzzle (its going to be going in a small circle). After making your body position corrections now your at the area of targeting in on better shots. We want to learn to control that muzzle to a smaller circle and finally a solid point of aim for that 10X whether on paper or making that heart shot. :Red tup: