250 yard Flintlock Rifle Shooting
- Thread starter sail32
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not a flintlock but my shooting partner and I were doing some long shots with his Parker Hale Whitworth at a friends farm. We used to practice there for silhouette shooting.
He was hitting 500m with a 2fg load on a 18" black disc. He was using a vernier rear sight and a globe front. lots of giggles .
With the right sights and good load anything is possible.
He was hitting 500m with a 2fg load on a 18" black disc. He was using a vernier rear sight and a globe front. lots of giggles .
With the right sights and good load anything is possible.
John Sedgwick: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Famous last words, punctuated by a Confederate sharpshooter, May 9, 1864.
Baker rifle
The accuracy of the rifle in capable hands is most famously demonstrated at the Battle of Cacabelos (during Moore's retreat to Corunna in 1809) by the action of Rifleman Thomas Plunkett (or Plunket) of the 1st Battalion, 95th Rifles, who shot French General Colbert at an unknown but long range (as much as 600 yards (550 m) according to some sources). He then shot Colbert's aide-de-camp, Latour-Maubourg, who went to the aid of his general, suggesting that the success of the first shot was not due to luck
Baker rifle
The accuracy of the rifle in capable hands is most famously demonstrated at the Battle of Cacabelos (during Moore's retreat to Corunna in 1809) by the action of Rifleman Thomas Plunkett (or Plunket) of the 1st Battalion, 95th Rifles, who shot French General Colbert at an unknown but long range (as much as 600 yards (550 m) according to some sources). He then shot Colbert's aide-de-camp, Latour-Maubourg, who went to the aid of his general, suggesting that the success of the first shot was not due to luck
