Ol' Girl is Ready to Hunt

[jjarrell]

Range trip today. I had a stiff breeze blowing from left to right, so it strung my group a little. Below is my 100 yard target and 3 of my patches. The first 3 I fired between gusts and center punched it. The last 3 I wanted to see how much the wind would affect ball strike but still wasn't that bad. Two went through the same hole. I have to say I'm happy. It would have been a prettier group if the wind wasn't blowing. My load is a .530 round ball I cast, .020" patch with mink oil lube. 90gr of Olde Eynsford 3f, chrono'd with a 6 shot average of 1909fps 15' from the muzzle. It is a .54 cal Joe Williams barrel. 1:79 twist, 36 1/2" length, 1" across the flats.
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[EMC45]

Great shooting!

[koger]

That will get it done! Good shooting!

[jjarrell]

Thank you gentlemen. Some days my eyes are better than others. Lol

[rfd]

super shootin', sir! i'd say yer more than ready to make meat, if the critters will cooperate a tad. :) like yer halfstock, and 57sml tang peep, too.

[jjarrell]

super shootin', sir! i'd say yer more than ready to make meat, if the critters will cooperate a tad. :) like yer halfstock, and 57sml tang peep, too.
Many thanks. Sometimes I think the critters are reading from a different rule book than I am. :mrgreen:

[725]

I hope to be as good as you have demonstrated on that target. I shoot a .54 -- .53 RB, .015 pacth, 90 gr's FFg Triple Seven with a musket cap nipple replacing the standard #11 nipple. Green Mountain drop in on a T/C Pa. Hunter. One of the sweetest I've ever shot. Not unusual for me to do two in one hole (at 50). I don't have much call for any longer shots where I hunt. Good luck this season.

[jjarrell]

I hope to be as good as you have demonstrated on that target. I shoot a .54 -- .53 RB, .015 pacth, 90 gr's FFg Triple Seven with a musket cap nipple replacing the standard #11 nipple. Green Mountain drop in on a T/C Pa. Hunter. One of the sweetest I've ever shot. Not unusual for me to do two in one hole (at 50). I don't have much call for any longer shots where I hunt. Good luck this season.

Thank you for the kind words. Trust me it was more luck than skill.:Fire: I usually shoot at 50yds. The longest shot I've taken on a deer in the last 20 years has only been maybe 65-70yds, and that was across a creek bottom I hunt. I'm mostly a woods hunter. I always go to the same spot, and have made meat leaning against the same tree 7 years running now. Hopefully this will be the 8th.(Knock on wood) However, I just recently had the barrel made this spring and wanted to see what my load could do at 100yds. Good luck to you as well this season.

[izzyjoe]

Very fine shooting, if you have a spot like that don't tell a soul, I learned that the hard way!

[shoot-n-lead]

That one is ready to go...!