Feeding a .76 musket.

[Tyockell18]

I'v got a flintlock early model Sea Service Musket in .76 cal comming in a few weeks, just slightly oversized.

What sized roundball do you veterans think would be a decent performer. It will have to be well patched obviously but would a .69 work decent?.

Anyone have a good source for .735 cal roundballs?.

Also do any of you guys ever hunt smaller game with shot in your flinters?.

 

[smellie]

Janice is shooting her .75" commercial Musket and actually getting decent accuracy. She mashes the poor Gong at our range at 100 yards, which is darned decent for any smoothbore.

She is using 60 grains of Black and it seems that ALL of my (historically-correct) .690" hard-cast Balls have gone missing. She loads the powder into the gun and follows it with a plastic 10-gauge shotgun wad/cup with the Ball, rams it all down together.

Likely she will use the same combination for this 1809 Erfurt that got here a few days go, once it is restored.

Works for her, anyway.

BTW, British ammunition used a Ball 14 to the pound..... in a 12-bore tube. That is a 480-grain Ball if you use wheelweight metal, which is precisely what a Lee .690" weighs. It was anything EXCEPT accurate, but they could use French ammunition when they captured it, even though the French powder was of "varied" quality.

With the 10-bore plastic wad/cup, you get a tight fit and the Ball held perfectly concentric. Makes a BIG difference at the Target.

Good luck!

 

[Tyockell18]

Janice is shooting her .75" commercial Musket and actually getting decent accuracy. She mashes the poor Gong at our range at 100 yards, which is darned decent for any smoothbore.

She is using 60 grains of Black and it seems that ALL of my (historically-correct) .690" hard-cast Balls have gone missing. She loads the powder into the gun and follows it with a plastic 10-gauge shotgun wad/cup with the Ball, rams it all down together.

Likely she will use the same combination for this 1809 Erfurt that got here a few days go, once it is restored.

Works for her, anyway.

BTW, British ammunition used a Ball 14 to the pound..... in a 12-bore tube. That is a 480-grain Ball if you use wheelweight metal, which is precisely what a Lee .690" weighs. It was anything EXCEPT accurate, but they could use French ammunition when they captured it, even though the French powder was of "varied" quality.

With the 10-bore plastic wad/cup, you get a tight fit and the Ball held perfectly concentric. Makes a BIG difference at the Target.

Good luck!

Great info sir, thank you very much.