Post by: MountainDevil54 on July 17, 2015, 05:42:04 PM
Im using a 32" deer creek barrel with 1:66 twist in .58 caliber shooting patched round balls.
90gr Olde Eynsford 2fg
.018" patches
Frontier's anti-rust & Patch lube
Home cast .570" round balls
Hot Shot Nipple
CCI #11 caps
No swabbing or cool down was needed today as the sun was down and quite comfortable.
Distance: 100 yards. Masking take over the rear sight is basically a sun shade to cut the glare of the sun as it was over my back left shoulder.
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Steel Hawken style trigger upgrade. I hated that brass hooked finger thing!
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First 2 shots,
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4 shots total,
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I am using a thinner .018" patch for testing its accuracy and while its extremely accurate, I see small signs of my 90gr 2fg load being boarder line from gas cutting. This load I shoot out to 170 yards with great accuracy, so I am not worried about using more powder. Olde Eynsford is like T7 in the black powder world, a hotter more powerful powder which lets you cut back in grains to achieve the same FPS as you would if you use normal goex/pyrodex.
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Damn right I am thrilled!
Another change was the wedge key. The steel wedge key plates used the thicker "height wise" wedge key and I had to file fit the plates for it to go through. My barrel and tang is completely bedded so I was worried about some wiggle room between the barrel and wedge key. All appears to be just fine as it is.
Post by: GBoyd on July 17, 2015, 05:47:10 PM
Post by: RG on July 17, 2015, 07:58:13 PM
Post by: busterbrown on July 24, 2015, 06:45:26 PM
Something about a traditional ML that is cool to shoot and hunt with.
Post by: PyroBlack on July 24, 2015, 07:23:15 PM
Many people don't realize the traditional guns shoot equally well as all the fancy plastic and stainless ones. Patched round ball all the way.
That's funny.
Post by: MountainDevil54 on July 25, 2015, 01:49:01 PM
Many people don't realize the traditional guns shoot equally well as all the fancy plastic and stainless ones. Patched round ball all the way. Nice shooting, nice gun.
yep and its extremely hard for some folks to believe! Even at 50 yards some can not get a modern inline to touch.
This was a video from some time back with another lube i was testing out.