Flintlock and patched roundball performance

[Sponge]

any reason you don't ask Kibler if he could make you a 40cal barrel for your woodsrunner? He might consider it. Are you just wanting the Isaac Haines type gun?

Ah, didnt think of that one, getting Kibler to run up a 40 cal barrel for the Woodsrunner would be the easy button solution.

@Formidilosus Dunlap can send an Edward Marshall kit with both 40 and 58 (or whatever cals wanted), they place the order with Rice when you order your kit. Probably best to call to order. Sending you a PM

 

[HighUintas]

That's right, Edward Marshall and not Isaac Haines. Either one would be great but I'd do the Marshall for the weight if using a bigger cal.

If at all interested in a much more historically correct barrel profile and this weight (because I know you're looking at this from a historical reality perspective), the Rice JJ Henry barrel profile is much more accurate. All the off the shelf swamped barrels are way more swamped than most originals were.

For anyone interested, Brad Emig at Cabin Creek tunes locks. He is the only one I know of that provides the service to a widespread customer base. Polishing the parts is very easy if you understand the mechanics and do's and don'ts. Adjusting geometry and case hardening the frizzen is another thing.

 

[HighUintas]

Any more shooting, @Formidilosus ?

I'm in the middle of replacing my barrel, but hopefully will have it done this week and get out to shoot this weekend.

 

[Formidilosus]

Any more shooting, @Formidilosus ?

I'm in the middle of replacing my barrel, but hopefully will have it done this week and get out to shoot this weekend.

A couple of shots at a rock with a buddy just for him to shoot it. Have been out of twinge last week or so. Should shoot a bit next week. Still have to sand and finish the stock and metal.

 

[HighUintas]

A couple of shots at a rock with a buddy just for him to shoot it. Have been out of twinge last week or so. Should shoot a bit next week. Still have to sand and finish the stock and metal.

Are you researching the in traditional finishing methods also, or just the shooting and functional aspect?

 

[Formidilosus]

Are you researching the in traditional finishing methods also, or just the shooting and functional aspect?

Nah. The stock will be finished with Kiblers stuff, and the barrel browned.

 

[HighUintas]

Finished my barrel replacement, mostly. Got it to shooting condition. I still need to put some finish on it and decide what rear sight to install. But, I'm too excited to try out this barrel so I made a made a makeshift peep.

I whipped this up from some scrap. It's 16ga sheet scrap, a cutoff piece of 8-32 tang bolt filed to a point that sits in a dimple on the tang to prevent it from spinning/changing windage and also for fine elevation adjustment. The peep is an aperture and post from a skinner sight in a slot. I can adjust for elevation and windage in that slot although not very easily. It's a kludge/quickdirty sight, but ought to work better than a notch rear right now because my dominant eye still can't focus at distance very well yet due to a surgery in January.

I'll likely shoot tomorrow, but not sure I'll get to take it to 100. I may just do a few 10 shot groups at 50 to get it sighted. Won't have time for much else.

 

[RockAndSage]

Finished my barrel replacement, mostly. Got it to shooting condition. I still need to put some finish on it and decide what rear sight to install. But, I'm too excited to try out this barrel so I made a made a makeshift peep.

I whipped this up from some scrap. It's 16ga sheet scrap, a cutoff piece of 8-32 tang bolt filed to a point that sits in a dimple on the tang to prevent it from spinning/changing windage and also for fine elevation adjustment. The peep is an aperture and post from a skinner sight in a slot. I can adjust for elevation and windage in that slot although not very easily. It's a kludge/quickdirty sight, but ought to work better than a notch rear right now because my dominant eye still can't focus at distance very well yet due to a surgery in January.

I'll likely shoot tomorrow, but not sure I'll get to take it to 100. I may just do a few 10 shot groups at 50 to get it sighted. Won't have time for much else.

View attachment 1033430View attachment 1033431View attachment 1033432

That's pretty damn cool, looking forward to seeing it browned, or whatever you end up doing with it.

 

[HighUintas]

That's pretty damn cool, looking forward to seeing it browned, or whatever you end up doing with it.

I think I'll rust blue the barrel and rub it back some. When I initially built this gun, I finished all the steel to a fine 600 grit and then buffed it with gray scotch bright to give it a softer finish. Left all the steel in the white as it's supposed to have some English characteristics to it, but as I hunted with it over the last couple of years and wear points became more polished I realized that a terrible finish for a hunting gun. It glints in the sunlight like a mirror.

 

[HighUintas]

Finished my barrel replacement, mostly. Got it to shooting condition. I still need to put some finish on it and decide what rear sight to install. But, I'm too excited to try out this barrel so I made a made a makeshift peep.

I whipped this up from some scrap. It's 16ga sheet scrap, a cutoff piece of 8-32 tang bolt filed to a point that sits in a dimple on the tang to prevent it from spinning/changing windage and also for fine elevation adjustment. The peep is an aperture and post from a skinner sight in a slot. I can adjust for elevation and windage in that slot although not very easily. It's a kludge/quickdirty sight, but ought to work better than a notch rear right now because my dominant eye still can't focus at distance very well yet due to a surgery in January.

I'll likely shoot tomorrow, but not sure I'll get to take it to 100. I may just do a few 10 shot groups at 50 to get it sighted. Won't have time for much else.

View attachment 1033430View attachment 1033431View attachment 1033432

Shot of this morning a little bit at the range. It's hard to zero a round ball gun at that range when it's windy to the berms making wind patterns irregular, and they're being zero when flags or vegetation to judge wind direction speed. I think it was gusting between five and 15.

Goal was to get a rough zero and 50 and then jump to 100 since I didn't have much time. I just picked one load to shoot today to simplify it.

Started at 50 yards, and tried to get the windage adjusted with the center bull. Wind was gusting to the left quite a bit. 3 shots, adjusted, the. 3 shots, adjusted.

Went to the top right bull after adjusting again, shot 1 and realized adjusting windage was pointless today.

Went to the bottom right bull and adjusted elevation for 100 yd, 3 shots. Good enough.


100 yards, same load, only had time for 5 shots.



Not bad. Glad I replaced the barrel. For whatever reason, the barrel I initially built that gun with sucked. It rusted like crazy no matter what I did, was really hard to load, and seemed to throw really wild shots occasionally (when not flinching). This one seems much better so far. First barrel was made of 12L14, this one is 1137, which has a higher resistance to corrosion, which is nice.

After I get this load fully zeroed, I'll probably keep it at that and see how consistent my 10 shot groups at 100 are.

I tried not having any coffee or nicotine this morning prior to shooting and that seems to help my involuntary need to seizure when the pan went off.