Today, I took my Euroarms 1853 Enfield rifled musket to the 300 yard line.
I learned a lot.
I learned that my batch of minie balls has a lot of different weights in it, as with the same charge and same hold, some of the minies hit the target, and some hit the dirt in front of the target stand.
Next time, I'll weigh the minies so I have similar results with all shots.
Below is a pic of what I was able to do.
That was 15 shots at this target.
The white sheet of paper with the blue bullseye is 20 inches wide. Again, that's the white paper, not the blue target itself.
There was a stiff left to right wind gusting.
There are three holes in the black particle board target stand. I put a piece of white paper behind two that are right atop each other in the upper right. Look for the little white "figure eight" just off the right edge of the paper.
There's another .58 caliber hole in the black target stand low right.
Overall, I'd rather not stand in front of somebody with an Enfield rifled musket 300 yards away.
I can't imagine what it would be like to stand in front of a rank of 50 or 100 men with Enfields.
Oh yeah. All shooting was off a bench. I used standard 75 grain charges.
Leaves them BIG holes..........
boom.
Five hits on the paper near the bullseye. Three more hits in the area on the black target stand. For first time ever at 300 with the 1853 with mismatched minies, I'll take it.
hillbilly
I learned a lot.
I learned that my batch of minie balls has a lot of different weights in it, as with the same charge and same hold, some of the minies hit the target, and some hit the dirt in front of the target stand.
Next time, I'll weigh the minies so I have similar results with all shots.
Below is a pic of what I was able to do.
That was 15 shots at this target.
The white sheet of paper with the blue bullseye is 20 inches wide. Again, that's the white paper, not the blue target itself.
There was a stiff left to right wind gusting.
There are three holes in the black particle board target stand. I put a piece of white paper behind two that are right atop each other in the upper right. Look for the little white "figure eight" just off the right edge of the paper.
There's another .58 caliber hole in the black target stand low right.
Overall, I'd rather not stand in front of somebody with an Enfield rifled musket 300 yards away.
I can't imagine what it would be like to stand in front of a rank of 50 or 100 men with Enfields.
Oh yeah. All shooting was off a bench. I used standard 75 grain charges.
Leaves them BIG holes..........
boom.
Five hits on the paper near the bullseye. Three more hits in the area on the black target stand. For first time ever at 300 with the 1853 with mismatched minies, I'll take it.
hillbilly
