First time shooting ne "Penn rifle, 50 cal flintlock
After receiving my Frontier lubes I ventured out to shoot the Pedersoli 50 cal rifle, started at 20 yards to feel delay from pan and try to get the sight picture on the iron sights-2 hits were high 3" and 3" right--hunting buddy off to the left--used the "shootout lube as directed--2f Goex in the barrel and 4f in the pan, started with 70 grns and went to 50 yards and 60 grns in the barrel--we were all over the place as I was unable to settle on the correct back and front sight picture. I (we) shot approx. 35-40 shots using shootout and pillow ticking patches, ran into among other things difficulty in starting the ball thru the 1st 4-5", young friend rammed them in, my mission became to get comfortable with the delay and hold on what I think is the proper aim points on the sights, moved the back sight up a notch and down a notch--no good results--had some cases where fire did not occur, recocked and 2nd try usually did the trick. I started out with a German flint and then changed to French amber, could hold flint in and it popped out once, used lead and changed to a piece of leather, screw that hold flint down kept getting loose ( kept tightening ). We did swab the barrel a number of times when it was hard to load which helped for a while. Anyway to wrap up the day my friend and I moved back to 100 yards and each shot once, he used his scoped in line Thompson 50 cal w/pyrodex pellets (100 grn ) and I the same load (60grns), used my shooting stick (Primos adjustable bipod as did he--his shot was 3" hi and 2" left, mine 4" hi and 2" left.I did not take picture's of targets but picked up a few patches which follow-----now---I am going back next week to shoot and plan on using Goex 3f in barrel and pan and Hornady .490 round balls---I went int my bullet bag and measured the home cast 50 cal balls a friend gave me and discovered that 90% of the ball were .491 plus all the way up to .495, sprue mark and line around center which explains the difficulty in starting the load and perhaps some inconsistency ???? I know sounds like I should shoot paintball but I will prevail and learn :study: --wish me luck, will # shots and take picture on next outing--regard Art
After receiving my Frontier lubes I ventured out to shoot the Pedersoli 50 cal rifle, started at 20 yards to feel delay from pan and try to get the sight picture on the iron sights-2 hits were high 3" and 3" right--hunting buddy off to the left--used the "shootout lube as directed--2f Goex in the barrel and 4f in the pan, started with 70 grns and went to 50 yards and 60 grns in the barrel--we were all over the place as I was unable to settle on the correct back and front sight picture. I (we) shot approx. 35-40 shots using shootout and pillow ticking patches, ran into among other things difficulty in starting the ball thru the 1st 4-5", young friend rammed them in, my mission became to get comfortable with the delay and hold on what I think is the proper aim points on the sights, moved the back sight up a notch and down a notch--no good results--had some cases where fire did not occur, recocked and 2nd try usually did the trick. I started out with a German flint and then changed to French amber, could hold flint in and it popped out once, used lead and changed to a piece of leather, screw that hold flint down kept getting loose ( kept tightening ). We did swab the barrel a number of times when it was hard to load which helped for a while. Anyway to wrap up the day my friend and I moved back to 100 yards and each shot once, he used his scoped in line Thompson 50 cal w/pyrodex pellets (100 grn ) and I the same load (60grns), used my shooting stick (Primos adjustable bipod as did he--his shot was 3" hi and 2" left, mine 4" hi and 2" left.I did not take picture's of targets but picked up a few patches which follow-----now---I am going back next week to shoot and plan on using Goex 3f in barrel and pan and Hornady .490 round balls---I went int my bullet bag and measured the home cast 50 cal balls a friend gave me and discovered that 90% of the ball were .491 plus all the way up to .495, sprue mark and line around center which explains the difficulty in starting the load and perhaps some inconsistency ???? I know sounds like I should shoot paintball but I will prevail and learn :study: --wish me luck, will # shots and take picture on next outing--regard Art