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No TennBilly - I simply worked up loads that would regulate in the gun that Pedersoli had built.

I understand they use lasers to set up the barrels - which are then copper brazed together, I think. Pretty sure they are not soldered, so it is a one-chance-deal to get it close and that's it. I expect it works for muzzleloaders - sometimes - mine did but I had to use a load not recommended by them.

With a muzzleloader, it's very easy to adjust different loads, using different patches, patch thickness, maybe wads included, ball size or bullets, all of which change the way the rifle shoots. Note, however in a ML, bullets are not safe for use in my opinion, due to the possibility of the slug in one barrel moving forward as the other barrel is fired, then the airspace makes that forward sitting slug an obstruction. BOOM!

Due to the normally poor regulation of these SXS guns of Pedersoli, they provide 2 sets of rear sights - you are supposed to sight in each barrel with one of the sights.

This is silly, really, but shows the laser regulation does not work as a final maneuver. This is what you get for $1,000.00 - or hereabouts.

I was merely lucky with mine - many owners are not so lucky. With Slugs, I was told this gun puts them over a foot apart at 50 yards and with a good foot difference in elevation as well. This was using a load that is suitable (maybe) for shooting moose or elk.

My round ball loads that I did get to regulate were just barely suitable for hunting big game, although I never shot anything with it - I sold it to a lawyer at a gun show.

I used it only for shooting trail local walk competitions - it was fun to fire a right, then a left, ringing the steel plates with both, the last one being a fast second shot.

I did this on the 50 or 100yard plates are not difficult targets.

Seems as though I was mistaken in suggesting you could 'start' using lasers - due to the elevation problems also induced between the barrels in smokeless powder loads. They have totally different recoil characteristics than black powder loads, it seems.

Bob and the rest here know what they are talking about. As I said, I've never done it, although the theory sounded good which is why I commented favourably about it. I accept I was wrong, that's OK. I did read somewhere that Pedersoli sets up the Kodiak barrels using lasers & I know of a number of these guns that are useless for hunting due to their poor regulation. Perhaps the owners did not want to spend the time I did at the range to find loads that would shoot reliably?

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Daryl

"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

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