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Watson577
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Re: Alexander Henry 8-Bore Elephant Rifle
15/02/16 11:54 AM

Hello gents,

I recently tried firing this rifle with 328 grains of Goex Olde Eynsford 1-1/2 powder and a 860 grain 12:1 spherical ball and the results were very good. I know several people that have been having very good results using this powder in double rifles so if you shoot a black powder rifle, you might want to give this powder a try. Here are photos of the targets as well as a few videos of a friend firing the rifle. Before this, he had never shot anything remotely like this before. The amazing thing to me is that John shot as well offhand as I did off of sticks in a seated position! It looks like the rear sight needs to be drifted to the left by about 0.035" to correct the error. Based on John's target, I think that the rifle was likely sighted for 100 yards (the rear sight isn't marked for range).

Cheers,

Jim

1st Target (shot off of sticks in seated position)

2nd Target (John's offhand target)

Composite Target

Video 1 (Note: These were 860 grain balls. I mistakenly said 900 grains in this video)
[IMG]http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv164/Watson577/8-Bore%20Elephant%20Rifle/th_IMG_0544.mp4[/IMG]

Video 2
[IMG]http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv164/Watson577/8-Bore%20Elephant%20Rifle/th_IMG_0832.mp4[/IMG]

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Re: Alexander Henry 8-Bore Elephant Rifle	Watson577	15/02/16 11:54 AM
Re: Alexander Henry 8-Bore Elephant Rifle	rigbymauser	17/02/16 06:43 AM
Re: Alexander Henry 8-Bore Elephant Rifle	Watson577	19/02/16 11:17 AM
Re: Alexander Henry 8-Bore Elephant Rifle	sharps4590	27/03/16 08:51 AM
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Re: Alexander Henry 8-Bore Elephant Rifle	Watson577	31/07/15 07:40 AM
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