May 10, 2011, 10:53 AM | #1 |
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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?
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May 10, 2011, 10:55 AM | #2 |
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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!
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May 10, 2011, 11:01 AM | #3 |
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Put some feathers on it and it will fly straighter.
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May 10, 2011, 11:18 AM | #4 |
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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.
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May 10, 2011, 01:31 PM | #5 |
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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" ....
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Could start a new category of muzzle loading competition...ramrod shooting!
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May 10, 2011, 09:31 PM | #7 |
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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.
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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.
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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 !!! |
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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?
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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.
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Charton Heston took out an Indian at close range using that "tactic", in the movie "The Mountain Men"
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