Rod Down Range Club

spclPatrolGroup · May 10, 2011, 10:53 AM

I joined last night, guess the lesson is not to get wrapped up in a conversation while loading, who else is in this club with me?

Hardcase · May 10, 2011, 10:55 AM

Well, I haven't sent a rod downrange, but I have spent some time dribbling grains of powder through the back end to get the uncharged ball out!

noelf2 · May 10, 2011, 11:01 AM

Put some feathers on it and it will fly straighter.

mykeal · May 10, 2011, 11:18 AM

I haven't sent one downrange (yet), but I did attempt to shoot one out that had gotten stuck. Fired it into a shallow dirt bank using 5 grains of powder; it skipped under some leaves and disappeared. A neighbor's son found it the following spring in a stump on the other side of his property.

Pahoo · May 10, 2011, 01:31 PM

Have only sent one down range that was stuck in a dirty bore. Guess you might call this one a Dry-Rod. Would not move with two guys pulling. Had to use the old CO2 discharging tool and sure made a funny sound as it exited the bore. Didn't Burt Lancaster do this once, in an old movie? I think it was "The Kentuckian" ....

Be Safe !!!

arcticap · May 10, 2011, 02:21 PM

Could start a new category of muzzle loading competition...ramrod shooting!

Legionnaire · May 10, 2011, 09:31 PM

I was at the range with my FIL when he sent his rod down range. He was complaining about how hard his 700 ML kicked and couldn't find his rod. I put two and two together, called a cease fire, and we found it out at 75 yards.

Hardcase · May 11, 2011, 09:48 AM

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Could start a new category of muzzle loading competition...ramrod shooting!

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we found it out at 75 yards.

Distance, with an accuracy modifier gives you your score!

Last summer when I was shooting great, great grandpa George's 1862 Springfield, charged it, then started to set the ramrod down on the bench. My dad, who hasn't fired that gun for at least 60 years, looked over and said, "You put that thing right back where it goes!"

A place for everything and everything has its place.

Pahoo · May 11, 2011, 10:07 AM

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My dad, who hasn't fired that gun for at least 60 years, looked over and said, "You put that thing right back where it goes!"

He is 100% correct and that is how the millitary taught their troops and was a part of their loading drills. ....

Now, that brings up another interesting point. There are M/L shooters that like to identify the status of the loaded or unloaded M/L by inserting the rod down the bore and leaving it there. Kind of a flag to the loader. Now that one could bite you. ....

Be Safe !!!

Hardcase · May 11, 2011, 10:19 AM

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He is 100% correct and that is how the millitary taught their troops and was a part of their loading drills.

Heheh, I'll have to point out to him that he remembers his training well

Pahoo · May 11, 2011, 11:16 AM

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Heheh, I'll have to point out to him that he remembers his training well

Might want to think that over as you might find out he was fighting for the British .....

Be Safe !!!

Hawg · May 11, 2011, 11:27 AM

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Might want to think that over as you might find out he was fighting for the British .....

With a 62 Springfield?

Hawg · May 11, 2011, 11:52 AM

Hmmmm.

http://youtu.be/rsz3Fpy0Jkk

BConklin · May 18, 2011, 02:35 PM

does no one here remember the episode of "Sharpe's Rifles" in which Sean Bean sent a ramrod through the neck of a French spy on horseback?

Hardcase · May 18, 2011, 04:02 PM

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does no one here remember the episode of "Sharpe's Rifles" in which Sean Bean sent a ramrod through the neck of a French spy on horseback?

I have never heard of the show! I can see that I have some DVDs to buy.

Legionnaire · June 25, 2011, 04:37 PM

New member signing in. Just got my first flintlock ... a Lyman Trade Rifle. Had some fun breaking it in today. But, like a the complete newbie I am, I neglected to pull the rod on what proved to be my last shot and sent it down range. Found 3/4 of it out around 100 yards (I was shooting at 50). Never did find the business end. So just ordered a replacement from Lyman.

Here's my second 50 yard target. Shooting a .490 patched roundball over 80 grains of Goex FFg. Stock iron sights, from a bench. The low shot was the last ... ramrod slowed it down, I guess.

sltm1 · June 26, 2011, 11:22 AM

Charton Heston took out an Indian at close range using that "tactic", in the movie "The Mountain Men"

May 10, 2011, 10:53 AM	#1
spclPatrolGroup Senior Member Join Date: August 19, 2010 Location: North Dakota Posts: 349	Rod Down Range Club I joined last night, guess the lesson is not to get wrapped up in a conversation while loading, who else is in this club with me?

May 10, 2011, 10:55 AM	#2
Hardcase Senior Member Join Date: April 14, 2009 Location: Sunny Southern Idaho Posts: 1,909	Well, I haven't sent a rod downrange, but I have spent some time dribbling grains of powder through the back end to get the uncharged ball out! __________________ Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is... he's hard to stop - Gus McCrae

May 10, 2011, 11:01 AM	#3
noelf2 Senior Member Join Date: April 14, 2008 Location: Stuart, VA Posts: 2,473	Put some feathers on it and it will fly straighter. __________________ Liberty and freedom often offends those who understand neither.

May 10, 2011, 01:31 PM	#5
Pahoo Senior Member Join Date: February 16, 2006 Location: IOWA Posts: 8,783	I don't think I qualify, but ...... Have only sent one down range that was stuck in a dirty bore. Guess you might call this one a Dry-Rod. Would not move with two guys pulling. Had to use the old CO2 discharging tool and sure made a funny sound as it exited the bore. Didn't Burt Lancaster do this once, in an old movie? I think it was "The Kentuckian" .... Be Safe !!!

May 10, 2011, 09:31 PM	#7
Legionnaire Senior Member Join Date: July 25, 2000 Location: Central TX Posts: 1,503	I was at the range with my FIL when he sent his rod down range. He was complaining about how hard his 700 ML kicked and couldn't find his rod. I put two and two together, called a cease fire, and we found it out at 75 yards. __________________ Cogito, ergo armatus sum.

May 10, 2011, 11:18 AM	#4
mykeal Senior Member Join Date: October 8, 2006 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 2,772	I haven't sent one downrange (yet), but I did attempt to shoot one out that had gotten stuck. Fired it into a shallow dirt bank using 5 grains of powder; it skipped under some leaves and disappeared. A neighbor's son found it the following spring in a stump on the other side of his property.

May 10, 2011, 02:21 PM	#6
arcticap Senior Member Join Date: March 15, 2005 Location: Central Connecticut Posts: 3,166	Could start a new category of muzzle loading competition...ramrod shooting!

May 11, 2011, 11:52 AM	#13
Hawg Senior Member Join Date: September 8, 2007 Location: Mississippi Posts: 16,188	Hmmmm. http://youtu.be/rsz3Fpy0Jkk

May 18, 2011, 02:35 PM	#14
BConklin Senior Member Join Date: December 2, 2010 Posts: 136	does no one here remember the episode of "Sharpe's Rifles" in which Sean Bean sent a ramrod through the neck of a French spy on horseback?

June 26, 2011, 11:22 AM	#17
sltm1 Senior Member Join Date: February 25, 2009 Location: Idaho Posts: 353	Charton Heston took out an Indian at close range using that "tactic", in the movie "The Mountain Men"