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Online Lloyd Smale

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Longest black powder shot youve made?
« on: December 08, 2011, 12:46:33 AM »
Shot a doe last night at 176 yards with my tc omega using 90 grains of 777 and a 250 xtp. Went about 10 yards and piled up.
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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 02:05:31 AM »
A doe here also and I figured that she was around 115 yards away and in the woods. Very small shooting lane out there "about 2 foot" and I watched her cross this twice while pacing back n forth before stopping in that gap the third time...It was looking like a long 115 yards so I held the sight right at the top of her back and just behind the shoulder and the .50 cal with 80 gr of Goex and a patched round ball spoke. The wind was at right angles and I was amazed to see a brief image of all four hooves looking at me for just a split second when she went down on the spot.
 
True range was 102 yards and the ball had only dropped an inch catching her square in the spine. She had expired by the time I reloaded and got over there.
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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2011, 02:53:01 AM »
The longest shot with a blackpowder rifle was when I took a Bull Elk at 137 yards (kneeling) using open sites on a Pedersoli Alamo Rifle. The Elk took about 5 steps and then went down after being hit by a .50 calibre patched round ball that was propelled by 115 grains of ffg blackpowder.
 
It wasn't my biggest Bull Elk, but it was a beautiful shot.
 
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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2011, 12:22:57 AM »
Lloyd, I've smacked some groundhogs (and missed some) out to 200 yards or so but the longest big game shots I've taken were in the 140 to 160 yard range.

I have great faith in the rifle to over 200 yards in still air but since it's usually breezy here I sometimes pass up shots since calling wind drift on gusty days is so tough.  Even a fairly streamlined bullet like a tipped MZ Expander can drift 5-6" at 160 yards in a 10 MPH wind so the wind is often the thing that sets my upper limit for any given shot.

I suspect that my experience is similar to many who hunt in and around hardwood stands.  Unless you are on the edge of the woods 100 yards is a loooong way to thread the needle between trees.

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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2011, 03:25:58 AM »
30 Yards is my longest shot on deer. My previous was 20 yards.

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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2011, 03:30:29 AM »
Shot an antelope at 225 paces with my 54 flintlock shooting 110 grs of 2f and a 535 patched ball.
Got an elk at 204 yds and an antelope at 135 yds with my 45 80 sharps shooting 80 grs goex 1f and a 500 gr .435 bullet patched to bore diameter.
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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2011, 04:04:11 AM »
Shot an antelope at 225 paces with my 54 flintlock
 
 
now thats some shooting!!
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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2011, 08:03:32 AM »
 :D  That was a long time ago in a land far far away,,, but it was at the time when  shooting 100 rounds thru that bugger in a weekend in competition of one sort or another, or just shooting to keep the hand/eye thing going was pretty much standard proceedure.When we'ld be shooting just for the heck of it, we'ld shoot at stuff out to 400 or more yards, just to see if it could happen,, it could.
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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2011, 03:09:49 AM »
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but it was at the time when  shooting 100 rounds thru that bugger in a weekend in competition of one sort or another

Those sure were some great times and I liked the Seneca run and the more casual woods walk, ringing those cleverly placed silly-wets. Our club ended up loosing the lease but I would ring that wild boar out @ 135 yards weekly, Does this count?   ;D  When hunting season came around, a deer was more like an elephant out there. Especially when most of us could dust that Quail cut out mounted on a spring out at 75 yards consistantly.
 
We would host a shoot or two a month and one group from a town about an hour away all shot .36 cal flinch locks. When overall scores were figured for both clubs, we would usually find that they had cleaned our clocks but good.
 
I got to shoot in one NMLRA national shoot which took place outside of Trenton Iowa in 83' or 84'...I shot third place in my heet and third in the finals. Traveling the BP circuit on the more common shoots sure did make for some great times.
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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2011, 03:45:59 AM »
Glancebamm yes indeed those were "shinin times".
I'm finding that traveling the bpcr buffalo match trail is alot like those old rondy days, except theres not alot of counsil fires.
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Re: Longest black powder shot youve made?
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2011, 04:51:11 AM »
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except theres not alot of counsil fires. 
   No Consil fires = no Milwakee beer. Guns were put up for the day of course and it was Old Milwakee because the stuff was dirt cheap and if one person approached your fire, chances are that he might have four friends with him!...Funny thing though was that everyone aquired a taste for that beer. The bigger shoots required a bottle of Jack mixed with a gallon of apple juice of course. No drunks or rowdyness observed here but just a drink to go with some of the best four string banjo, Mandalin, and Dulcimer playing that I have ever heard.   Sorry for blowing the post Lloyd, consider it a "bump" to get it back to the top?  ;) 
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