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I know, inlines are not made to shoot round balls. Well that is not entirely true. Maybe they should say, not made to shoot them well. But again, it depends on the powder charge.
I was talking to forum members, and the subject has came up.. whats a good light load for a small frame person, and will an inline shoot a roundball.
Today I took out my Knight LK-93 .50 caliber. It has a 1X Traditions ($50.00 cost) scope. Legal for our hunting season here in Wisconsin. Also a great aiming point. My intention was to see how well this one shot roundball.
I wanted to see how low a charge it would shoot. So I have my small pistol flask loaded with Triple Seven 3f powder. I had moosemilk, and pillow tick, and a lot of home cast roundball. The weather looked dangerous. It was humid as all get out. And 80 degrees (which for September in Wisconsin is strange in itself). But I took the chance and shot anyway.
I never swabbed the barrel clean with alcohol. Which I later think was a bad mistake. The first shot was a hang fire. I then remembered this had Montana X-treme bore treatment in it. So I decided not to swab the barrel at all, and just keep shooting. with 32 grains of powder (I later learned by measuring two charges) this was a dream to shoot. No more recoil then a .22 caliber rifle IMO. And it was pretty accurate.
But I wanted to see how much I could push the little rifle, and make it a lethal weapon for a small frame person and lets say close range. So I doubled the small flask charger and it measured 65 grains of the T-7 3f. Now IMO this is getting somewhat real lethal for close shots. If someone has a chronograph and thinks of it, measure out 65 grains of T-7 3f and a roundball and get a reading.
This had moderate recoil. Nothing to get excited about. But I really think this load would have hunting potential. Even for White tail as a moderate range. The accuracy was excellent, and even in the drizzle it kept shooting.
I then swabbed the barrel and that is where the trouble started. I am "guessing" that since I did not take the bore conditioner out of the barrel, it did a few things. First, very little fouling for all those shots, and never swabbing. BUT did the glass cleaner liquid slide into the breech plug and make "a plug." I could not get the rifle to fire after I swabbed.
That's the actual patch from a glass cleaner spritz patch and then two dry ones. Then the trouble started. I was going to keep shooting in the drizzle and test some 200 grain XTP 10mm with the same powder charge. Well I loaded after swabbing, and popped cap after cap after cap. If I was not dead certain I loaded that rifle correctly, I would have swore it was a dry load.
So I pulled the breech plug and pushed out a plug of powder. It looked just like a custom fit pellet. I have it drying and am going to see if it returns to powder or if I can shoot it off next time.
Since it was now raining, I called it quits for the day. But I do think, that a roundball and 65 grains of Triple Seven 3f out of a good inline, might be an excellent small frame person load for moderate range deer hunting.
I was talking to forum members, and the subject has came up.. whats a good light load for a small frame person, and will an inline shoot a roundball.
Today I took out my Knight LK-93 .50 caliber. It has a 1X Traditions ($50.00 cost) scope. Legal for our hunting season here in Wisconsin. Also a great aiming point. My intention was to see how well this one shot roundball.
I wanted to see how low a charge it would shoot. So I have my small pistol flask loaded with Triple Seven 3f powder. I had moosemilk, and pillow tick, and a lot of home cast roundball. The weather looked dangerous. It was humid as all get out. And 80 degrees (which for September in Wisconsin is strange in itself). But I took the chance and shot anyway.
I never swabbed the barrel clean with alcohol. Which I later think was a bad mistake. The first shot was a hang fire. I then remembered this had Montana X-treme bore treatment in it. So I decided not to swab the barrel at all, and just keep shooting. with 32 grains of powder (I later learned by measuring two charges) this was a dream to shoot. No more recoil then a .22 caliber rifle IMO. And it was pretty accurate.
But I wanted to see how much I could push the little rifle, and make it a lethal weapon for a small frame person and lets say close range. So I doubled the small flask charger and it measured 65 grains of the T-7 3f. Now IMO this is getting somewhat real lethal for close shots. If someone has a chronograph and thinks of it, measure out 65 grains of T-7 3f and a roundball and get a reading.
This had moderate recoil. Nothing to get excited about. But I really think this load would have hunting potential. Even for White tail as a moderate range. The accuracy was excellent, and even in the drizzle it kept shooting.
I then swabbed the barrel and that is where the trouble started. I am "guessing" that since I did not take the bore conditioner out of the barrel, it did a few things. First, very little fouling for all those shots, and never swabbing. BUT did the glass cleaner liquid slide into the breech plug and make "a plug." I could not get the rifle to fire after I swabbed.
That's the actual patch from a glass cleaner spritz patch and then two dry ones. Then the trouble started. I was going to keep shooting in the drizzle and test some 200 grain XTP 10mm with the same powder charge. Well I loaded after swabbing, and popped cap after cap after cap. If I was not dead certain I loaded that rifle correctly, I would have swore it was a dry load.
So I pulled the breech plug and pushed out a plug of powder. It looked just like a custom fit pellet. I have it drying and am going to see if it returns to powder or if I can shoot it off next time.
Since it was now raining, I called it quits for the day. But I do think, that a roundball and 65 grains of Triple Seven 3f out of a good inline, might be an excellent small frame person load for moderate range deer hunting.
