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Offline srussell

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Re: 32 or 36 cal for squirrels
« Reply #30 on: May 18, 2010, 02:45:32 PM »
Most every .50 that I've owned made fine squirrel rifles.  If the rate of twist is slow, like on a longrifle, I found that whatever powder charge is most accurate, would be just as accurate with half of that.  I had a Jim Chambers and a TVM and a Lyman GP, all of which would group tightly with a half load.  The Lyman was especially accurate.  It liked 80 grains of 3F for general use, and 40 grains would cut the center out of a small pistol target at 25 yards.  I simply made two powder measures that hung around my neck with a loading block.  I remember an article in Muzzle Blasts some years ago about half loads.   
my 54GPR is like that cut the charge in half with the same groups good shooting rifle

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Re: 32 or 36 cal for squirrels
« Reply #31 on: May 18, 2010, 05:23:17 PM »
......  I simply made two powder measures that hung around my neck with a loading block.  I remember an article in Muzzle Blasts some years ago about half loads.  

I remember that article as well, and I think that I read it in Muzzleloader Magazine...I believe it was written by Mike Nesbitt.

And I think he also had that article published in an issue of the Blackpowder Aunnual, a Dixie Gunworks publication.
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Re: 32 or 36 cal for squirrels
« Reply #32 on: May 19, 2010, 06:37:08 AM »
I don't think that GM is planning to produce any 32 OR 36 barrels.  I have a .32 Mountain Rifle and it will hold minute of squirrel out to 50yds easily.

That is such a good term.  8)
“Lost?? Hmmm... been fearsome confused for a month or two, but I ain't never been lost!”
Henry Frap the "Mountain Men"

“Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Mother Gue said to me; ‘Make your life go here, son. Here's where the people is. Them mountains is for Indians and wild men.’  "Mother Gue", I says "the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world," and by God, I was right. Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline.”
Del Gue in "Jeremiah Johnson"