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Re: newbie question on muzzle loading pistols
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:15 pm
by dodgyrog
meles meles wrote:Oh no ooman, some of them can be very accurate. Even we have put 5 rounds into the black at 25 yards with a .45 Ruger Old Army...
What projectile and powder load please?
Re: newbie question on muzzle loading pistols
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:33 am
by dromia
Sim G wrote:
That's about it in a nut shell. The work of the MLAGBNI had muzzle loaders exempted from the legislation. A great deal of hard work which paid off. The other organisations on the other hand maintained a "dignified silence".......
Not quiet correct, the HBSA was also involved in saving what could be from the post Dunblane government vindictiveness, they were responsible for section 7.3 and supported the retention of M/Ls.
Re: newbie question on muzzle loading pistols
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 6:55 pm
by LeighC
Perhaps I should have added - in my hands the M/L revolver only throws lead in the general direction of!
I should really take the time to bench rest it and set the foresight, but I only shoot it for fun rather than competition
Re: newbie question on muzzle loading pistols
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 3:35 pm
by ResearchPress
Top score in last weekend's MLAGB English Pistol Championships with a repro. revolver was 97 and with an original revolver 93. These are fired one handed at 25 yards on a target with a 50mm dia ten ring. Have a look at the pistol results for MLAGB matches at:
http://www.mlagb.com/shooting/results/index.htm
David
Re: newbie question on muzzle loading pistols
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:24 pm
by meles meles
dodgyrog wrote:meles meles wrote:Oh no ooman, some of them can be very accurate. Even we have put 5 rounds into the black at 25 yards with a .45 Ruger Old Army...
What projectile and powder load please?
Hmmmm, it wasn't our gun so we don't know. The powder was black, we stuffed as much in the cylinders as we were told. The projectiles were round lead balls.*
* Badgers are usually very helpful are they ?
Re: newbie question on muzzle loading pistols
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 3:45 pm
by brick
they can be incredibly accurate, i can hit clays at 100m off a bench with .36 pedersolli i believe its due to the parabolic curve of the projectile and if you find the correct distsnce/powder charge they can be very accurate.
Brick
Re: newbie question on muzzle loading pistols
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 5:47 pm
by meles meles
We liked it because it felt very different to the service pistols, mainly Browning and Sig 9mm, that we have shot more often. Instead of a sharp recoil that flipped the muzzle up, we found the blackpowder pistol just tended to give us a good, long shove straight back and then returned right back to the pointing at the target. Maybe it's more to do with the automatics having moving lumps flying everywhere or something rather than the characteristics of the powder. Ask some smart ooman like Dromia for clarification, but we liked it...