January Match

[JBJ]

Only shot one target before Marc and I called it a morning. Hopefully we will get a chance to get out again this month. Shot from a rest. .40 Rice 7/8 inch diameter straight barrel x 42", 55 grains of FFFG Goex, .015 canvas, Hoppes BP cleaner/lube.
J.B.

[Daryl]

Darn good first target, J.B. Looks like a 26 2X to me. Lets hope you can get out again.

[bob in the woods]

We've had freezing rain, with snow expected tomorrow, so I thought I'd better get out there to the back 40 while it was calm.
25 yards  , from a rest [ tree]   10 bore N.E. fowling gun 

100 gr FFg,  .735 ball, .018 patch, WWF lube from a spray bottle

I usually shoot paper cartridges , so was a bit surprised that the 1st shot was low

Adjusted for it and the next 4 were on target.  I'm not sure what the score is....the holes are too big     I took two photos ,since I wasn't sure how they'd turn out.

Next time I'll use my .54

[Pukka Bundook]

Very nice smoothbore shooting Bob!

Maybe if you got a bigger gun, you could cut all the lines with one shot!

Seriously good shooting if I may repeat myself!

[Daryl]

Ditto - good recovery after that first shot, too.

[Jakob]

Maybe if you got a bigger gun, you could cut all the lines with one shot!

I was thinking of maybe bringing a 6 pounder for this one.

[bob in the woods]

Maybe if you got a bigger gun, you could cut all the lines with one shot!

I was thinking of maybe bringing a 6 pounder for this one.

I do have a 4 bore swivel gun   

[Daryl]

 

[Jakob]

Sunshine! 3Celcius and no wind!. I seem to have misplaced my 6 pounder, so it was the .54 great plains again.





Fun and at the same time frustrating target. Really good challenge.

[Daryl]

Frustrating indeed. Glad you got out again Jacob. What range do you shoot at?
I've shot at the Coast Meridian & Barnet, both on the Barnet Highway, as well as out at the Coquitlam  R&G club and Thompson Mountain ranges.

[Jakob]

I used to be at the Port Coquitlam (Burke Mountain), but moved to Fort McMurray last year.
A little frustrating to go from a regular group of 10-12 blackpowder shooters, to 1.5, but this group (and the monthly shoots) helps a lot.
I have colleagues who shoot a lot, but it's all modern stuff. Still fun, but just totally different from what I prefer.
I will however, probably pick up trap shooting in the spring.

[Daryl]

I shot at the Port Coquitlam club in 1978 for the world Police and Fire Games, living in PG then. I am very
fortunate to have a fairly active black powder section here locally, and also my bro Taylor to shoot with.
Keep the faith in BP! BTW- really freaks out the trap shooters if you have some black powder loads, just now and then.

[alacran]

I shot at the Port Coquitlam club in 1978 for the world Police and Fire Games, living in PG then. I am very
fortunate to have a fairly active black powder section here locally, and also my bro Taylor to shoot with.
Keep the faith in BP! BTW- really freaks out the trap shooters if you have some black powder loads, just now and then.

Doesn't take much to freak out the trap shooters.

[Daryl]

LOL - you're right about that, alacran. Most often, misses are the gun's fault.

[smokinbuck]

Shooting trap doesn't mean you have to put away the black powder. My grandson and I shoot trap with an original English prrcussion double by Powell of London. 20 gauge with 38" barrels.

[Jakob]

Sure, if you have 2 guns and a batman reloading for you. Otherwise the other shooters might get a tad bored waiting for you to reload.

[PK]

Shot standing with X-Sticks.
.54 cal Fullstock Hawken Flintlock
.530 RB
90 gr Goex 2f
.018 patch cut at the muzzle/Ballistol&water lube

[Dphariss]

I bet if I ever get to think up another target it won’t be this one.  I over complicated it. Some really good shooting here though.

[Dphariss]

I used to be at the Port Coquitlam (Burke Mountain), but moved to Fort McMurray last year.
A little frustrating to go from a regular group of 10-12 blackpowder shooters, to 1.5, but this group (and the monthly shoots) helps a lot.
I have colleagues who shoot a lot, but it's all modern stuff. Still fun, but just totally different from what I prefer.
I will however, probably pick up trap shooting in the spring.

I shoot competition with a flintlocks, vintage and modern brass suppository military rifles  I do pretty decent with them all. My ML shoot is 100 miles or more one way. Some of the others 1700+.

[PK]

One more off the X-Sticks after some adjustment of some new sights I’m working with.
.54 cal Fullstock Hawken Flintlock
.530 RB
90 gr 2F Swiss
.015 patch/Ballistol&water lube

[Daryl]

Not bad PK, however my guess is that only one of the centre hits scores due to the 1/2 ball rule, thus there is no hit on the lower right quadrant.
A much improved target, though. The group on your previous target is great for 4 of them - this one much more precise.
AGAIN! Still time. We're about done here, getting too cold again. The top left quadrant might be an 8 1X & if you score the right hand centre hit as the center hit, it is a 5 1X,
the bottom left quadrant is a 5 1X thus I would score that one as a 23 3X. Nice!!

[PK]

Sounds good. Thanks

[Dphariss]

At this time it appears that Taylor has it by 1 X over Daryl. Unless I missed a target someplace. There has been nice shooting this month. Couple of days left. I put in the 8 pt corner and "X" things to make it a little more interesting and risky as well.

Was -18f here this AM. (I think that Merriweather Lewis would write "50 degrees of frost" in his journal. The last 2 days our Sheriff's deputies, state troopers, ambulance, fire and other first responders have been run ragged. Too many incidents and not enough people.  Iced over I-90. Snow, blowing snow and people who will not slow down for emergency vehicles or even yield so they could safely work. Been some irritated voices on our scanner. Its been a mad house. Today is calmer since the sun is out, but just  had a jack knifed 18 wheeler 3 miles from the exit a mile from my house.

[alacran]

Getting this under the wire. First time all month that it hasn't been blowing raining or snowing.
It was quite muddy.  Thankfully I didn't get stuck.
this is the conditions I was shooting in

This was my target. Two holes in the black. Tried for all quarters, but my last shot went into the diamond like my first shot.

I shot a target first to make sight adjustments, since I hadn't shot this rifle off cross sticks since I built it.
It is .45 cal. Douglas XX barrel. Was going to shoot one more target but it looked like it was getting ready to snow again. It would have been a very wet snow or rain. The road was bad enough as it was. So I left.

[Freedom]

It was another winter day in Montana.
I didn't recall the directions so I figured I couldn't go wrong with Holding Center.
5 shots, seated in the snow over cross sticks.

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