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Well, today was a special day for a few people in my club who shoot BP muzzleloaders, none more so than for Steve, an infrequent shooter these days, sad to say. One of his pride and joy rifles is this replication of the Baker short rifle made by English BP specialist Peter Dyson a few years back. It is, of course, as finicky as all get-out, but then, when it DOES all come together, it's a hoot. that .62 cal ball over 90gr of 2Fg, really has some serious authority. Here is a short clip of it in action this morning at the 100m range of our club on the Cambs/Northants border -
1. The actual ball - he shoots it in a greased cotton patch....
2. The REAL Baker ball in its chamois leather patch, badly shrunken over the last two hundred years or so....
3. and the real-live odd-ball that came after it - the Brunswick rifle with its odd belted ball that fitted in the two-groove rifling, more often than not...
1. The actual ball - he shoots it in a greased cotton patch....
2. The REAL Baker ball in its chamois leather patch, badly shrunken over the last two hundred years or so....
3. and the real-live odd-ball that came after it - the Brunswick rifle with its odd belted ball that fitted in the two-groove rifling, more often than not...