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tinker
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Re: Building a big bore
22/11/05 01:02 PM

Daryl-

I have yet to shoot over that third rear sight.
I'm working with the modern formed brass sixteen bore hulls to neck them down (just a tad) to take the roundball. As I just got a new mould hoping it'd throw balls that are more round than my 19th century vintage pincher-type mould (it's a lyman -- not perfect, but good enough), the balls from the new mould are a tad bigger in diameter and I want to run them to see what kind of difference that all makes before I commit to dimensions for my dies...
Once all's sorted I'll get those sights sorted too.
The notches are soooo tiny, they're very difficult to use at this point and I really think that they were simply struck with a center notch from which to file down to regulation height.
I'll just see what happens as I get the loading gear together for that nice little light rifle.
Over a hundred yards it's a pretty darn flat shooting rifle though. After a lot of research, questioning, referencing... I settled on a 2-1/2 Dram FFg starting load and I was pleased. I haven't chronographed that gun yet, but from the sound of things I'd guess I'm getting velocities in the fourteen hundreds to fifteen hundreds.
The gun hits hard and quick and the roundball has the sizzling hiss of supersonic frieght train performance.
If I can ever get my chrono to work for me when I'm shooting the bore rifles I'll be in business and will definitely report performance.

These muzzles sing such a sweet tune...

--Tinker

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--Self-Appointed Colonel, DRSS--

"It IS a dangerous game, and so named for a reason, and you can't play from the keyboard. " --Some Old Texan...

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Building a big bore	BillfromOregon	18/11/05 05:17 PM
Re: Building a big bore	szihn	02/10/07 02:31 PM
Re: Building a big bore	degoins	02/10/07 09:30 PM
Re: Building a big bore	Tatume	04/10/07 06:13 AM
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Re: Building a big bore	Tatume	04/10/07 11:59 PM
Re: Building a big bore	mehulkamdar	07/10/07 01:43 AM
Re: Building a big bore	JohnTheGreek	05/10/07 08:34 AM
Re: Building a big bore	szihn	02/10/07 10:36 PM
Re: Building a big bore	degoins	03/10/07 01:48 AM
Re: Building a big bore	mehulkamdar	04/10/07 03:55 AM
Re: Building a big bore	degoins	04/10/07 04:22 AM
Re: Building a big bore	szihn	04/10/07 12:48 AM
Re: Building a big bore	Dphariss	05/01/07 06:58 PM
Re: Building a big bore	BillfromOregon	07/01/07 03:19 AM
Re: Building a big bore	Dphariss	07/07/07 04:56 PM
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Re: Building a big bore	szihn	24/06/07 12:10 PM
Re: Building a big bore	DarylS	19/11/05 07:32 AM
Re: Building a big bore	tinker	20/11/05 03:58 AM
Re: Building a big bore	DarylS	21/11/05 11:00 AM
Re: Building a big bore	BillfromOregon	20/11/05 06:54 AM
Re: Building a big bore	tinker	20/11/05 10:45 AM
Re: Building a big bore	BillfromOregon	20/11/05 11:38 AM
Re: Building a big bore	DoubleD	20/11/05 03:12 PM
Re: Building a big bore	DarylS	21/11/05 11:38 AM
Re: Building a big bore	tinker	21/11/05 04:35 PM
Re: Building a big bore	DarylS	22/11/05 02:01 AM
Re: Building a big bore	tinker	22/11/05 01:02 PM
Re: Building a big bore	BillfromOregon	22/11/05 04:19 PM
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Re: Building a big bore	tinker	23/11/05 01:14 PM
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Re: Building a big bore	BlainSmipy	02/12/05 11:21 AM
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Re: Building a big bore	BillfromOregon	24/11/05 03:37 AM
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Re: Building a big bore	BlainSmipy	01/12/05 08:19 AM
Re: Building a big bore	Dphariss	02/10/07 06:13 AM
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Re: Building a big bore	Tatume	04/10/07 06:53 AM
Re: Building a big bore	DarylS	07/10/07 02:16 AM
Re: Building a big bore	Tatume	07/10/07 09:41 PM
Re: Building a big bore	mehulkamdar	08/10/07 05:01 AM
Re: Building a big bore	BillfromOregon	11/07/11 12:52 AM
Re: Building a big bore	Dphariss	11/07/11 09:11 AM
Re: Building a big bore	tinker	11/07/11 03:47 PM
Re: Building a big bore	BillfromOregon	11/07/11 11:08 PM
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Re: Building a big bore	DarylS	04/11/11 05:08 AM
Re: Building a big bore	DarylS	11/07/11 01:54 AM
Re: Building a big bore	Tatume	04/10/07 07:01 AM
Re: Building a big bore	PAPI	30/11/05 08:13 AM
Re: Building a big bore	DarylS	25/11/05 10:17 AM
Re: Building a big bore	tinker	24/11/05 10:46 AM
Re: Building a big bore	DarylS	25/11/05 10:03 AM
Re: Building a big bore	tinker	23/11/05 01:16 AM
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