Next shoot in Alamogordo is coming up in a week!!!! :---
Are we all ready, both mentally and physically? ^:)^
See you all there ..:..
Yep, going to be fun!.... Hope to have a Brown Bess for show and tell....O.L.
Quote from: oladcock on November 04, 2011, 03:28:49 PM
Yep, going to be fun!.... Hope to have a Brown Bess for show and tell....O.L.
That should be awesome! Are you bringing powder and ball too? >:D
Might, it's not here yet, it's supposed to be .76 cal which I'd think would need .74 or .75 ball. Dixie sells .73, not sure if a patch will make up that much difference, most likely it would...O.L.
You can shoot a smoothbore musket ball as much as .06 below the bore diameter, with (or even without) appropriate wadding. Or maybe even more, but that's as far as I've gone.
This is not to say you'll get great efficiency, or anything approaching accuracy. But it'll work. So a .73 ball in a .76 bore is absolutely fine.
Just BOOM and smoke is fine! :) Got a percussion and it shoots .005" under, wasn't sure if .02-.03 would be too much.......O.L.
2 1/2 days and a 'wake up'......................... ^:)^ :~