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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: D. Taylor Sapergia on January 02, 2017, 06:55:04 AM
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Well, it's been a while since I posted one of these. A few of us assembled today to shoot our trail, cook some dogs in the club house and have a beer. The temperature is -9 C or 18 in Foreignheat, and we have about six inches of the white stuff in the woods, a foot in the meadow. What a beauty of a day!
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Good looking group, I'll bet a fine time was had by all. Looks like you have a death grip on that rifle or did your hands freeze to it :D
Tim C.
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It kind of looks like I'm trying to protect it from these guys, but the fact is, of the six rifles in the image, I built five of them. Starting on the right, Isaac Haines .54 cal x 42" bbl, Andrew Verner .50 cal x 48" bbl, Sam Hawken .54 cal 34" bbl, Jacob Kuntz .40 cal x 44" bbl, Baker .62 cal x 32" bbl. The fellow on the far left owns one of my last rifles - a nice flint Jake Hawken .50 cal, but he's babying it, and was using his GPR .54 today. My somewhat awkward pose resulted from just having run fifteen yards through the snow while the camera counted down it's ten seconds.
Today it's -20 C so it was good to get the shoot in yesterday.
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Looks like a good time with fine friends, wonderful way to bring in the new year!
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8) Taylor, I stared at that picture for several moments and then it hit me! Your group looks like a line-up of some gents I arrested when I was a cop back in the 1970s. ;D
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Odd, alcohol and firearms are not allowed in my "club".
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what are you drinking and shooting then? :D
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Molly, I know that there are clubs where alcohol is not permitted on the grounds, but that is not the case at our club. Once shooting is over, and the firearms are safely stored, we can pop a can of beer. Shooting is thus suspended for the rest of the day for those who have consumed liquor...them's the rules.
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Hanshi: Daryl ( second from the right) and I were both RCMP members in the seventies, and I cannot say that I ever had the pleasure of arresting such a distinguished looking group, and never one that was so well armed.
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And I was making a little light of the subject.The club around here you can go from the range to the bar but never from the bar to the range,thems the rules too.
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I'm pokin' a little fun here as well. But never under any circumstances is any alcohol allowed on our range property and never have I been aware of any violations. We do however seem to tolerate some degree of "medication" use and we do have far to many borderline nut cases in my opinion. Naturally some members may consider me one such nut case. I am also aware of many, dare I say most, "hunting clubs" (men who grow beards and refuse to take a bath during hunting season and go out to live in a dilapidated structure or tent for the purpose of shooting some fuzzy critter) that are really cloaked mass drinking events. One such member recently told me his contribution to the hunt club pantry was a dozen eggs, a pound of sausage and 4 cases of beer.
Enjoy yer selves boys, and don't eat the yellow snow.
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Molly, I know that there are clubs where alcohol is not permitted on the grounds, but that is not the case at our club. Once shooting is over, and the firearms are safely stored, we can pop a can of beer. Shooting is thus suspended for the rest of the day for those who have consumed liquor...them's the rules.
A can of beer on a hot day after a match is a therapy. Before a match,not so good.
I remember a BPCR match in Kentucky about 20 years ago when a fellow showed up
with a 40-65 and 45-70 ammo. That worked itself out rather well.
Bob Roller
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If the reverse had happened [ 45-70 with 40-65 ammo ], I wonder how many rounds it would have taken for him to notice ;D
The folks I shoot with are all responsible adults, and have figured out that shooting and drinking don't mix. Unfortunately, some will never get that , and I just don't shoot or hunt with them anymore. Taylor, your group looks a lot like the bunch I shoot with, only we have some females as well. Sometimes you can tell us apart....but not always .
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Over the years we have been lucky enough to have several women shoot with us, one of which is Kim, pictured here. You will not meet a more enthusiastic black powder shooter. Unfortunately for us, she married a fellow and moved away from our town. She has purchased a Kibler kit and we are trying to make a date to put it together one of these days. I'll keep you posted on the progress of that project when it comes to fruition.
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Kim and I on her wedding day...
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Does Taylor always take the same pose for every picture?
Fleener
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My mistake I meant Daryl, not Taylor.
Fleener
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Pretty much, but not always.
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I am envious. Here in northern Florida, it was 80 and muggy on New Years. But I bet my toes aren't unhappy they were not walking around in snow though. Nice pictures. thanks for posting.
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Great photos. Half the reason I like muzzleloading is the good people you meet in this hobby.
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Great post! Nice pics! A "gang" of armed men I would be happy to associate with. Matt.
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And us with you, Matt.
Had a trap shoot a couple summers ago.
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then normal stuff
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My late buddy brad, shooting the flying goose! this was New Years day, 7 or 8 years ago. -14C & snowing, but nice to be out with friends.
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Great buncha pictures, some I've never seen. Thx, guys! Who's the guy with the perfect form? lol
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Taylor, Not only wonderful pics, but also so fortunate to have so dedicated a group! Although my club has BP shooters and ample room for a woods walk, it rarely sponsors even an informal shoot. These days they're preoccupied with "black rifle" shooting or using modern, unmentionable ML's with all that entails.
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Pretty much, but not always.
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Looks like the Assembly of Honorable and Trustworthy Men to me.
As I write this it is a tropical 8 degrees here in the part of the Ohio
Valley I live in. That would be 24 below 0 in the Provinces I think.
Bob Roller
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Since -18C is 0F, 8F would be about -15 "in the Provinces"- just a guess & that is what it is today. Have to go to the R&G club to put up some new target stands on the General handgun range. I'll be gone from the 10th to 25th - West & a mite South of here.
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That looks like so much fun and friendship Taylor. I wish I lived nearby......well, at least in summer months. ;-)
My great uncle used to hunt Fleming Lake in BC. I have a set of his moose antlers over my fireplace even now.
I have a friend of Norwegian descent who fished out of Prince Rupert. His dad had moved there from northern Norway to get a better climate!
Your lovely friend sure looks attached to you sir. :-)
Best wishes, Marc
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Here's another young lady, shooting her Full Stock Hawken - .58.
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Here's one of Kim shooting her .50 flinter.
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Another one of Jodi shooting her FS Hawken .58.
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Yes - the orange fox target is down that shooting lane 92 yards away.
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Sometimes the foliage makes seeing the targets a bit more difficult- especially after firing - for a while if no wind in the bush.
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On this one- you can see a dark stump in the snow- about 95 yards away. Above that dark stump, is an orange bunny- about the size of snowshoe hare, hanging on a chain. It is not a large target, yet some times, most everyone in the group will smack it. At one of our rendezvous, everyone in the SB group ahead of us hit it - all 6 of them.
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Gracious! Some good-shooting folks in lovely countryside. Best wishes, Marc
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Ditto re the good shooting! After looking at all of that snow, this old southern boy is going to put another chunk in the stove.
JB
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LOL- we've been told it's a hard course - certainly more 90 to 110yard targets than any other I've shot. Practice is good. The late Elmer Keith once noted, hitting at "long range" is purely accidental. If you practice at those ranges, you'll have more long range accidents than someone who doesn't.
Elmer was referring to shooting handguns, but his statement holds for rifles as well, of course.
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I know my old eyes couldn't pick out the fox or the bunny in the pics; and probably not on the ground, either.
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If you use a PC - hold the ctrl button down and roll the scroll wheel on the mouse, or press the + key. Pressing the - key while holding the ctrl button down will reduce the size. Holding the ctrl button down and pressing the zero key: 0, will return your screen to it's original size.
The fox, a mere 92 yards is actually not a difficult target. Due to the 'glow' of the paint, most people think it's a coyote - It's about 50% smaller than a coyote should be.
Even if you use the scroll wheel on the mouse to increase or decrease the picture/page size, holding the ctrl button and pressing the 0 key will return the page to it's proper size.
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Finally saw it; it worked. Thanks, Daryl.
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Welcome- on the rabbit target and using the enlarging feature, you can easily see the stump or log end with the snow on it, then above that is a vertical black line. That is the bunny target and it's chain. It is on a fairly severe angle- sometimes if just doesn't stop square to the shooting line - of well - "it's YOUR shot, shoot them as they lay"! >:( :o :-\