The firearm thread

[Flip]

Ummmm black powder. Love the stuff.

I shoot a light weight 54 cal hawkins rifle, its accurate and fast at 1800ft/sec and its 240 grain round ball has gone front to back long ways through a small deer. It won't shoot mine balls the rifling is too long.

I also shoot a 75 cal smooth bore brown bess, that I am sorting out right now. I haven't got it to shoot very well but its a work in progress.

Used to shoot a 44-40 with black powder and hard 50% lino bullets. I also load 308W with a 130 grain gas checked lino bullets.

[ManDownUnder]

9mm Parabellum: 4gr of AD70N Powder on a 147gr projectile gets 1100fps apparently.

I think Chris is referring to a .44 magnum target load possibly. Max for AD70N in .44 mag is about 11gr

Gotcha. Cheers. Damned rifles are a bit more pricey to run...

$60 for 500grams of 2209 = 49.5c/round... and a sore shoulder if you do it wrong

[jono035]

Gotcha. Cheers. Damned rifles are a bit more pricey to run...

$60 for 500grams of 2209 = 49.5c/round... and a sore shoulder if you do it wrong

Lol, I think it is much the same in terms of price. Sure the rounds cost you 5x as much but you use 5x fewer of them, too! Shooting at the range I could blow through 50 rounds in an hour without hassle at all and I'm a pretty low volume shooter comparatively. (At least until I'm reloading...)

[ManDownUnder]

Lol, I think it is much the same in terms of price. Sure the rounds cost you 5x as much but you use 5x fewer of them, too! Shooting at the range I could blow through 50 rounds in an hour without hassle at all and I'm a pretty low volume shooter comparatively. (At least until I'm reloading...)

LOL - you are proof positive of Parkinsons law mate...... or more precisely... I believe it's his 2nd law.

[jono035]

LOL - you are proof positive of Parkinsons law mate...... or more precisely... I believe it's his 2nd law.

Hahaha yep. Have heard that before.

[geoffm]

Asked a mate in the CAS shooting game what steel was used in the sport for the targets.

Bi Alloy

10 mm

Does this mean anything to you? Not to me

Chris

Probalby Bisalloy - basically armour plate. Not available at my local engineers supplies...

[twistemotion]

Shooting a zebra would be more like shooting fish in a barrel.

Yes Hinny, fish in a barrel. So hunting Zebras is not your thing, but bear in mind that hunted animals behave very differently to ones in game parks where there's no hunting. Have you been watching a lot of Animal Planet episodes lately?

[Mr Merde]

5 grains? What are loading, pistol rounds? I know it's a big round but the 270WSM takes 58.5grains of 2209...

.44 mag soft loads to train with. Trying to replicate the mv of bp. About 1000 fps

Cheaper to shoot modern in training and bp in contest.

Can still group quite nicely on my range. Target on base of cliff about 120 metres distant, if I do my bit. You know the range quite well if I remember.

With full load of BP in the rifle I can hit targets out to 200 yards reasonably well, 8\10 hits in long range pistol calibre at Carterton two years ago. Fluffed the first and knew I pulled the last shot as soon as I fired.

I should sit on my hill and learn the rifle at distance I suppose but the problem with all these shooters is that I never know which one to use at any given time.

[The Pastor]

use them all.....

[Mr Merde]

All very quiet here today.

Run out of conversation?

[Flip]

I found with BP in a 44-40 the first few rounds went OK then the accuracy dropped off after 10 or so.

[ManDownUnder]

All very quiet here today.

Run out of conversation?

Waiting on the office of the Privacy Commissioner here... Spoke with one of the head honchos of TM support and he actually gave me a few reasonable explanations of what is going on but I'm getting the full story together. I put a few suggestions back to him in respect of TM's need to do what they want, while not alienating the shooting comunity.

Found the .22 is in urgent need of sighting in (that Mynah was a very lucky bird... had it been the HMR he'd have been eel food).

otherwise - one day at a time...

oooo and a fly just came into the office.,.. and it's going to DIE!!!!!!!!! (Fly spray - no guns involved...)

[Mr Merde]

Waiting on the office of the Privacy Commissioner here... Spoke with one of the head honchos of TM support and he actually gave me a few reasonable explanations of what is going on but I'm getting the full story together. I put a few suggestions back to him in respect of TM's need to do what they want, while not alienating the shooting comunity.

Found the .22 is in urgent need of sighting in (that Mynah was a very lucky bird... had it been the HMR he'd have been eel food).

otherwise - one day at a time...

oooo and a fly just came into the office.,.. and it's going to DIE!!!!!!!!! (Fly spray - no guns involved...)

Did you get the e-mail asking you to grade the customer support you received?
I was none to complimentary I must admit.

[Swoop]

I'm seriously impressed with the prices of the Norinco M-14's that Reloaders has!
$695 bucks!

I had one years ago and they are lovely rifles.

[jono035]

I'm seriously impressed with the prices of the Norinco M-14's that Reloaders has!
$695 bucks!

I had one years ago and they are lovely rifles.

Yeah, they showed me one of those when I was in there asking about the press, have to say it looks pretty sweet. You had one of the Norinco ones? How well did it shoot?