Skirmish Shoot

[heelerau]

Gents, today I had my first comp with the Perth Muzzleloading Club. It was a team shoot, two shooters per team and a spotter scorer. It involved engaging targets at various unknown ranges during a walk through the scrub. It was a mixture of paper targets, gongs, bear cans full of water and and a swinging target, a running pig target.  I missed the first rabbit, and the beer can, scored on all the rest. the second last target was a square gong at about 120 yds, doubled the powder charge to hit that one. Only missed the rabbit and a beer can, seem to be out of plinking practise.   The rifle I used was my Niel Fields .40 Lancaster flintlock , the other chap was also using a Niel Fields flintlock Kentucky long rifle. Finished equal third with 72 points.  It was a real fun shoot and took about 40 minutes and a walk of about 1/4 mile. Being winter down under, no snakes !!.  Charge 35 grs FFFg, .375 ball and thick patch ( still having trouble reading a micrometer) mink oil from TOW.

cheers from down under

Heelerau

[PPatch]

Great report and that sounds like all sorts of fun. Just grab those serpents by the tail, swing them around your head and snap'em like a bullwhip - their heads fly right off. My grandfather taught me that trick when we were frog gigging down a stream one night.

dp

[trentOH]

Great report and that sounds like all sorts of fun. Just grab those serpents by the tail, swing them around your head and snap'em like a bullwhip - their heads fly right off. My grandfather taught me that trick when we were frog gigging down a stream one night.

dp

He's down under. You have to remember to swing the serpent in the other direction.

[heelerau]

We just swing em by the head and their tails fall off !!