Ugly Sauce
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I took Bess out back, was snowing lightly, a bit of light rain mixed in. Still had a load in her from Elk season. So I popped that off and loaded up two more from the loading block. 140 grains 1fg, and a chewed ball with .023" patch. A full 50 yards and I didn't think she did half bad. My elevation was good, but she shot a little to the left, as you can see. I primed from the horn, and the ignition did seem a tad slower than 4fg, although that does not matter to me. It could take a minute and a half to go off, and my sights would still be holding on target.
She's a reliable musket, when I first got it, had a flash in the pan, or two, and one "clack" with no flash or fire, but since then I coned and enlarged the touch hole a tiny bit, lowered the floor of the pan, shimmed up my main spring and bent the cock a bit more to my liking. (yes, got it hot first) Since those mods, she's never miss fired or failed to fire.
Bessie says: "thanks for listening".
She's a reliable musket, when I first got it, had a flash in the pan, or two, and one "clack" with no flash or fire, but since then I coned and enlarged the touch hole a tiny bit, lowered the floor of the pan, shimmed up my main spring and bent the cock a bit more to my liking. (yes, got it hot first) Since those mods, she's never miss fired or failed to fire.
Bessie says: "thanks for listening".