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The goal is to see how much performance can be gotten out of an 18th century rifle using patched round balls. Accuracy, distance, speed- everything. I started shooting with a couple caplocks with PRB’s in the thread below to see what baseline I could expect.
Patched round all day
To start I am most interested in what size 10 shot groups can be consistently gotten at 100 and 200 yards (and farther), what distance can a 10-15” target be reliably hit, and how many shots a minute can be achieved.
Finally got in the Kibler Woodrunner kit that was ordered back in November. This will be the rifle that I start off this process with.
To go from box to fully assembled and ready to fire took a couple of hours including watching videos of it, with @longrangelead help. It’s a slick kit, and the rifle feels great. It’ll get shot, then taken back apart and the metal and wood finished. Then the testing/learning in earnest.
Patched round all day
To start I am most interested in what size 10 shot groups can be consistently gotten at 100 and 200 yards (and farther), what distance can a 10-15” target be reliably hit, and how many shots a minute can be achieved.
Finally got in the Kibler Woodrunner kit that was ordered back in November. This will be the rifle that I start off this process with.
To go from box to fully assembled and ready to fire took a couple of hours including watching videos of it, with @longrangelead help. It’s a slick kit, and the rifle feels great. It’ll get shot, then taken back apart and the metal and wood finished. Then the testing/learning in earnest.
