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Well today was one of our monthly guest days, alternatively Saturdays and Sundays, to even it out a bit. Full members of the club can bring up to four friends/family/work colleagues et al to see what we get up to when we disappear carrying these long bags/cases.
It's a chance for those people - ie. most people - to handle a gun of some kind - ANY kind - and get to shoot it under supervision, of course.
To that end I usually take something along that they most definitely will NEVER have seen/held/fired in their lives - some kind of a black powder rifle or handgun.
Today I took along my 1974-made Parker-Hale P61 Artillery carBEEN, shooter of 535gr Minié-type bullets over the carBEEN load of 60gr of Swiss 2Fg.
AAMOI, using one of those spiffy new Garmin mini chronographs, five consecutive shots made 1106 fps. Not too shabby, I think. I'll let you do the math on the M/E, but I reckon it's quite considrubble, and not to be sniffed at.
The originals were used primarily by artillery troops - all horses, remember? And also those troops for whom the long standard three-band infantry rifle would have been an awkward PITA to lug around.
I use authentic[ish] made-up paper cartridges after the style formalised by the School of Musketry at Hythe, Kent, back in the mid-1850s, just in time for the Crimean War. The movie below shows Brett Gibbons, owner of 'paper cartridges', using the correct style so-called 'English Cartridge - he makes and sells 'em - that caused the Union so much woe at Shiloh. The Confederates were using the English Cartridge, and the Union were not - the Southern boys were shooting at almost twice the rate of the opposition.
In those days, and under those circumstances, such rates can win a fight.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFbfhtw8VwA&t=1s
It's a chance for those people - ie. most people - to handle a gun of some kind - ANY kind - and get to shoot it under supervision, of course.
To that end I usually take something along that they most definitely will NEVER have seen/held/fired in their lives - some kind of a black powder rifle or handgun.
Today I took along my 1974-made Parker-Hale P61 Artillery carBEEN, shooter of 535gr Minié-type bullets over the carBEEN load of 60gr of Swiss 2Fg.
AAMOI, using one of those spiffy new Garmin mini chronographs, five consecutive shots made 1106 fps. Not too shabby, I think. I'll let you do the math on the M/E, but I reckon it's quite considrubble, and not to be sniffed at.
The originals were used primarily by artillery troops - all horses, remember? And also those troops for whom the long standard three-band infantry rifle would have been an awkward PITA to lug around.
I use authentic[ish] made-up paper cartridges after the style formalised by the School of Musketry at Hythe, Kent, back in the mid-1850s, just in time for the Crimean War. The movie below shows Brett Gibbons, owner of 'paper cartridges', using the correct style so-called 'English Cartridge - he makes and sells 'em - that caused the Union so much woe at Shiloh. The Confederates were using the English Cartridge, and the Union were not - the Southern boys were shooting at almost twice the rate of the opposition.
In those days, and under those circumstances, such rates can win a fight.
