Author Topic: Smooth bore accuracy (Read 26491 times)

Flint62Smoothie · « **Reply #50 on:** December 18, 2017, 04:49:56 PM »

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Pukka Bundook · « **Reply #51 on:** December 18, 2017, 07:12:42 PM »

Black hand's raw wool or tow works just as well, if you are short of blankets.

John SMOthermon · « **Reply #52 on:** December 25, 2017, 11:17:53 PM »

Here’s a target shot by Tip Curtis a few years back.
He has it posted in his Tn. shop.
I’m sure he won’t mind me braggin’ on him a little.
Shot at 50 yards off hand.
Good Shootin’ Tip

redheart · « **Reply #53 on:** December 26, 2017, 04:59:33 AM »

Quote from: Smo on December 25, 2017, 11:17:53 PM

Here’s a target shot by Tip Curtis a few years back.
He has it posted in his Tn. shop.
I’m sure he won’t mind me braggin’ on him a little.
Shot at 50 yards off hand.
Good Shootin’ Tip

I'd sure like to know what Tip's load was!!!

Smo, can you find out the details and post them.
It's hard not to suspect the shallow almost invisible rifling techniques sometimes.

John SMOthermon · « **Reply #54 on:** December 26, 2017, 06:22:29 AM »

I will see what I can do .

I need to go up to his shop after the first of the year anyway, so it’ll be a couple weeks .

I pretty sure they checked the gun before the shoot, most places do.

I don’t think Tip would have tried any funny business anyway.

After all he’s been shooting muzzleloaders longer than many of us has been alive .

The other signatures on the target are Witness’s to my understanding.

Justin Urbantas · « **Reply #55 on:** December 26, 2017, 09:07:09 AM »

Quote from: redheart on December 26, 2017, 04:59:33 AM

Quote from: Smo on December 25, 2017, 11:17:53 PM

Here’s a target shot by Tip Curtis a few years back.
He has it posted in his Tn. shop.
I’m sure he won’t mind me braggin’ on him a little.
Shot at 50 yards off hand.
Good Shootin’ Tip

I'd sure like to know what Tip's load was!!!
Smo, can you find out the details and post them.
It's hard not to suspect the shallow almost invisible rifling techniques sometimes.

Wow! That is amazing shooting. Did he have a rear sight on it?

oldtravler61 · « **Reply #56 on:** December 26, 2017, 06:39:16 PM »

Remember the more yeah shoot. The better you get. An the more you shoot the same gun the better you get. It also pays to be dead steady when your holding on target.

WaterFowl · « **Reply #57 on:** December 26, 2017, 08:21:08 PM »

Thats some mighty fine shooting SMO...Good luck getting the details...

Daryl · « **Reply #58 on:** December 27, 2017, 08:41:43 PM »

Quote from: Smo on December 25, 2017, 11:17:53 PM

Here’s a target shot by Tip Curtis a few years back.
He has it posted in his Tn. shop.
I’m sure he won’t mind me braggin’ on him a little.
Shot at 50 yards off hand.
Good Shootin’ Tip

That is better than amazing - stunning! I have not seen that good an offhand 50yard target since the 70's - with rifles. Wonder if he used a patch?

John SMOthermon · « **Reply #59 on:** December 28, 2017, 04:58:29 AM »

Guys,

I will try to go see Tip next week if he's open.

He does sometimes go to Rendezvous at Alafia River in Florida in early January.

Hopefully he will be there. I'll take a list of questions to ask.

As far as I know the target could have been shot in the 70's.

But he told me it was with a smoothy... not a rifle.

D. Taylor Sapergia · « **Reply #60 on:** December 29, 2017, 02:10:16 AM »

...wonder if it was a flintlock? Host club "Cap and Ballers".

John SMOthermon · « **Reply #61 on:** December 29, 2017, 04:01:54 AM »

I thought it was , but I will ask .

The Club appears to still be alive and well .

It’s in Hopkins, Michigan.

oldtravler61 · « **Reply #62 on:** December 29, 2017, 04:34:55 AM »

Taylor an Daryl seen a few groups like Tip shot with smoothies. Jack Duprey was one of the shooters an a friend named Dick Gavitt was the other. Those two guy's know how to shoot smooth bores..

Daryl · « **Reply #63 on:** December 29, 2017, 09:54:41 PM »

Beyond me. The best I ever got, was 2 1/2" with Taylor's 1728 Bess, some number of years ago, then 3" with LB's 20 bore.

With my own gun, I am horrid. Whether it's due to the choke or whatever it is, I am not a good shot with a smoothbore,

but Taylor and a few of the guys at Rendezvous BC sure shoot them well. More practice with it, certainly would not hurt.

Vomitus · « **Reply #64 on:** December 30, 2017, 12:02:05 AM »

Daryls, with some practice, you'll be shooting groups like this....from the hip!

Daryl · « **Reply #65 on:** December 30, 2017, 03:18:19 AM »

& blind drunk, er, I mean, blind folded.

Mauser06 · « **Reply #66 on:** January 03, 2018, 07:03:30 AM »

Conditions were poor for good pictures...but there's my first deer with a smooth bore.

25yd shot. Hit exactly where I was intending to. Took the top of the heart off.

Shooting cute little groups is great. Putting meat in the freezer is what matters to me though...and it did the trick.

John SMOthermon · « **Reply #67 on:** January 04, 2018, 01:26:18 AM »

Congrats

Arcturus · « **Reply #68 on:** January 04, 2018, 02:44:11 AM »

Nice shooting, Mauser...congratulations. That's what it's all about for me, too. I'll be out in the cold on Saturday hoping for a 25 yard shot as well.

Mauser06 · « **Reply #69 on:** January 04, 2018, 07:56:50 AM »

#2 today!

I've wanted to track a deer in the snow and kill it with a flintlock forever. Many years we don't have the snow. I set out today and accomplished my goal.

I was disappointed to see it was a button buck. I looked it over and felt confident it was an adult doe. I personally try my best to only take adult doe.

Now to fill the buck tag. Probably done with the smooth bore for the year though. No particular reason. Just wanna carry the rifle I built a while.

John SMOthermon · « **Reply #70 on:** January 04, 2018, 10:56:43 PM »

Congrats again

John SMOthermon · « **Reply #71 on:** January 04, 2018, 11:03:04 PM »

Quote from: Smo on December 26, 2017, 06:22:29 AM

I will see what I can do .

I need to go up to his shop after the first of the year anyway, so it’ll be a couple weeks .

I pretty sure they checked the gun before the shoot, most places do.

I don’t think Tip would have tried any funny business anyway.

After all he’s been shooting muzzleloaders longer than many of us has been alive .

The other signatures on the target are Witness’s to my understanding.

Update:

Guys , I've come down with a terrible cold from the frigid weather, So I'm postponing my trip to Tips place until I recover.

I'm sure Tip would appreciate me not bringing him the bug...

Nessmuck · « **Reply #72 on:** January 20, 2018, 03:28:11 AM »

So how many of you 3 inch group guys ......doing that without a rear sight on your Smoothbore Flintah ?

John SMOthermon · « **Reply #73 on:** January 20, 2018, 03:45:43 AM »

I don’t think Tip had a rear sight .

Another question I will ask.

Hopefully next week I will be able to get some info.

D. Taylor Sapergia · « **Reply #74 on:** January 20, 2018, 03:48:44 AM »

My Pennsylvania fowler (Chambers) has a tapered octagon to round barrel. At the wedding band, I pull the front silver sight down until I can just see the tip of it on the wedding band, place the front sight on the centre of the target and let 'er rip. Works for me. For distances further than 50, I see more sight above the barrel, and for 100 yards, for example, I see as much barrel as front sight above the barrel, still holding the front sight in the centre of the target. That's with 86 gr. FFg GOEX .020" patch and .600 ball.

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Author Topic: Smooth bore accuracy (Read 26491 times)

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