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Its still does in this day and age too...With Proper shot placement a .54 roundball will safely take an Elk, Did it a bunch in the fur trade era can still do it today, just my 2 cents.
40" barrel?Its still does in this day and age too...
Last Elk I got was with this rifle :
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Its a J. Henry Trade Rifle Circa 1800 , flintlock and .58 caliber....
70 grains and a .570 round ball did the trick nicely.
Andy
Yes the HB does have something to do with it.If you can find them the Hornady Great Plains Conical seems to handle slower twists. Not sure if the slight hollow base has anything to do with it.
It could be right...Andy,
Just for grins this morning, as I was cleaning that .50 cal I built, I marked the cleaning rod with a piece of tape to see how many times it went around in the length of the barrel.
It only went around 1/2 a turn in 32" !
That would make it a 1 in 64.
That doesn't sound right does it?
LOL ! Shooting muzzleloaders is like golf - one day your 'shooting' PAR and the next your a duffer!I was a little disappointed with it yesterday though. At 100 yards the round balls were all over the paper.
Reminds me of the geico commercial with pinocchio. But in a good way41 inch barrel....also worth noting...
The barrel is a smooth bore....it never had rifling.
The rifle is what was called in the 1800's a Smooth Rifle or a Rifle Mounted Fusil.
Andy
Ditto all the above.As for function, traditional rifles are very functional. As for ease of cleaning, a hooked breach traditional rifle is ridiculously easy to clean. Really don't see what the issue is.
My Renegade .54 shoots ragged one hole at 50 yards with Great Plains bullets but finding them is getting tougher and they will all be gone soon.
Ditto all the above.
I say let's go back to the year Oregon radically changed the ML laws to traditional open ignition, caps/flint, loose powder & ball or conical only. It was about 1998 I think and it caught a lot of the "inliners' off guard.
I had a ML tag that year and it was wonderful ! Only a hand full or less of us were in the unit that year because we were shooting traditional!