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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: Bob Gerard on December 23, 2023, 03:42:55 AM
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This is just a fun little post- I was shooting some trap in the yard with my son today, he with his shotgun and I with my Fusil de Chase.
This shot was a laugh- Christian thought I missed but I could see the hole thru the clay pigeon as it began to fall.
Sure enough, my first "Hole-In-One" 🤣
https://youtu.be/4hAVvivQkM8
(https://i.ibb.co/zQ33bcd/hole-in-one.jpg) (https://ibb.co/FmQQJvp)
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Were you using shot, or round ball?
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My guess is a Skychief load & hit it with the heavy wet wad. ;D
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LOL, no Skychief load. Just 60 grains ff, crumpled brown paper wadding, 90 grain measure of #5 shot ( about 1- 1/4 ozs, and some grass over wadding.
Nothing fancy but it works (thanks Pukka Bundook).
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In my experience, targets breaking in that manner is a result of them being old, poorly stored, or have a high humidity content. The center is the thinnest part of the target. there are three other visible hits. Probably only one or two pellets hit the center. A fresh target hit with #5 shot should break completely apart.
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I just got them from Walmart.
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Getting them from Wal-Mart doesn't mean you got fresh or properly stored targets.
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when i was a kid my dad had a good friend named Benji he would deer hunt and run around with here in SC, this was in the 50s-70s Benji was a legend then and is now when it came to shooting, he is still talked about today. here in SC it has always been legal to deer hunt with dogs. a few of those men used 22 rifles. i know that is a whole can of worms, but that is just the way it was. they said if a deer came out to Benji he could hit the deer in the head or neck. that don't sound so specular in itself, but he could do it with a pack of dogs running the deer! daddy said he could hit anything thrown hard into the air, such as an inch square block of wood. he also could kill a squirrel as it jumped through the trees. as he got sick in the late 90s i got to visit him a lot, daddy was already gone by then. Benji was a humble man, he was a country southerner but very smart. he was a small man that was golden glove boxing champ in the army in the 50s, while visiting him right before he died, his son and i were talking about his shooting ability, he said Benji could hit a nickel flipped into the air every time, and a dime a lot of times but not every time. i had the honor to be a Paul bearer at his funeral. he was put in the ground on the 4th of July 1997 some men do extraordinary things,,,,,,,,,,,
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Getting them from Wal-Mart doesn't mean you got fresh or properly stored targets.
I couldn’t find the “Best Used By” date on the case of clay pigeons
These did just fine, thanks though 😉