Flintlock Fun

[Daryl Hallquist]

Matt Buckley, it is a 16 ga.

[Jay Oliver]

I have enjoyed this thread and appreciate the compliments on the gun. I heard metallic cartridges are just a passing fad!

All it had made me want to do is go shooting again. Craig, I am glad I made that mistake about the muzzleloading event at the Southern. I am definitely going to do that on Thursday. There is a black powder cartridge event on Friday that I will use a Parker in

Daryl that case that came with mine is original. You did a great job making yours. It is hard to find a case that will fit a muzzleloading shotgun.

I need to try that sky chief load. I might do some patterning over the weekend. Then some sporting clays during the week for more practice then a preserve hunt soon after.

These are a lot of fun and it is nice to see so much interest.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Jay Oliver

I have enjoyed this thread and appreciate the compliments on the gun. I heard metallic cartridges are just a passing fad!

All it had made me want to do is go shooting again. Craig, I am glad I made that mistake about the muzzleloading event at the Southern. I am definitely going to do that on Thursday. There is a black powder cartridge event on Friday that I will use a Parker in

Daryl that case that came with mine is original. You did a great job making yours. It is hard to find a case that will fit a muzzleloading shotgun.

I need to try that sky chief load. I might do some patterning over the weekend. Then some sporting clays during the week for more practice then a preserve hunt soon after.

These are a lot of fun and it is nice to see so much interest.

Bring your mountain howitzer as well I think CL is working on another 8 event for Friday morning !

[Jay Oliver]

Craig, I was hoping there was going to be an 8 gauge shoot too!

[OH Osthaus]

what an incredible survivor

[Chris Pope]

You black powder guys are awful. It took almost a year to finally convince myself I need to sell all my black powder stuff (it accumulates) and now after reading this darn thread I'm thinking no and instead I'll take one on a quick quail hunt before the end of the season. Also used to enjoy turkey hunting with blackpowder...except when there's a drought and after you shoot you have to scramble to stomp out the burning leaves between you and the flopping Tom! And another thing- once you get used to the smell of burnt black powder you just don't appreciate the rancid smell of burnt smokeless powder- kind of like enjoying the smell of the exhaust of an old internal combustion engine using real gasoline compared to modern unleaded.... (:

[Daryl Hallquist]

Jay, the case was difficult to find as the Manton barrels require a 32" inside dimension. Finally found one in England.

[Daryl Hallquist]

Chris, I',too, enjoy black powder guns from that era of craftsmen using hammers, chisels, files, drills , and maybe gas lighting if they were lucky. Over the past few years I have enjoyed pinfires for hunting and fun shooting. That period seems to include the best examples of gunmaking art after the flinters.

[Joe Wood]

Would someone tell me about the Skychief load in detail? I’ve shot ML’ers since the late 50’s but this is a new one to me.

[Jay Oliver]

Hi Joe, I enjoyed looking at pictures of you sxs flinlock. We need to get a handful of us together for a shoot.

This is from member Skychief on the Muzzleloader forum:

Powder charge
Nitro (hard) card
Shotload
Thin overshot card
Full fiber cushion wad*

*The cushion wad needs to be SATURATED (the wetter and heavier, the better) with oil. I like to use olive oil.

The load seems to shine best when used in cylinder bored guns.

I have not tried it yet, but might play around with it this weekend. It is supposed to exponentially improve the pattern