Black powder Skeet

[Londonshooter]

I got out yesterday with my old black powder mentor, Fred. He has had quite an amazing life - a real original who has been there and done that. It had been some time since we shot together but he has been one of my shooting guides and heroes going back 30 years.
The weather wasn't nice but we had the skeet field to ourselves and could load our barrels inside the clubhouse with the woodstove going between shots. He was shooting a singleshot 14 bore pigeon gun while I had my double. We were a couple hours between talking guns and loading and shooting to make it through most of a 25-shot round.
The videos are me at station 8. Dead bird on high 8, and lost on the low .

 

[iron cat]

I love shooting both muzzle loaders and BP cartridge guns on the skeet field.
We were messing around on station 8 shooting both houses as doubles about ten years ago in the Spring
Cat

 

[Londonshooter]

I love shooting both muzzle loaders and BP cartridge guns on the skeet field.
We were messing around on station 8 shooting both houses as doubles about ten years ago in the Spring
Cat

I think it is super fun. My buddy WR1894 helped me out this summer with enough powder to shoot a lot more black.
You have to be conscientious with the extra cleaning and maintenance part. I'll do a cleaning at the club with hot water and dawn and then spend an hour or so in the evening doing a complete job while listening to music, dog at my feet.

 

[iron cat]

I think it is super fun. My buddy WR1894 helped me out this summer with enough powder to shoot a lot more black.
You have to be conscientious with the extra cleaning and maintenance part. I'll do a cleaning at the club with hot water and dawn and then spend an hour or so in the evening doing a complete job while listening to music, dog at my feet.

It sure is fun, yes! You are also right, one must keep up with the cleaning for sure!
Cat

 

[Londonshooter]

On the first video if you go to settings and then change the playback speed to 0.25 and quality to HD then can see the breaking bird and flame out the barrel. The iphone doesn't do the sound of the discharge justice though.

 

[ParksPipes]

That is some black belt ninja level gun nut shooting right there!

 

[Londonshooter]

That is some black belt ninja level gun nut shooting right there!

Mike, you will have to come to London to try it yourself. Or see if the Oshawa club will change/suspend their no-black-powder policy if only during the day of the Upper Canada Classic. Take your pick of these guns to start your ninja apprenticeship.

 

[Pete04]

no-black-powder policy??
What kinda bs is that?

 

[Londonshooter]

no-black-powder policy??
What kinda bs is that?

I wonder if is related to fire risk.

 

[Pete04]

I wonder if is related to fire risk.

That may be. There should be a way to rectify any hazard?
I would accept that if it's a real risk but I don't see how it could be.
I've never been to their club so there maybe some thing/situation I'm not aware of.

 

[iron cat]

Probably more to do with misconceptions around black powder and modern skeet and trap shooters not wanting to deal with BP shooters, I have run into this before.
Cat

 

[ParksPipes]

Mike, you will have to come to London to try it yourself. Or see if the Oshawa club will change/suspend their no-black-powder policy if only during the day of the Upper Canada Classic. Take your pick of these guns to start your ninja apprenticeship. View attachment 1100880View attachment 1100879View attachment 1100877View attachment 1100876View attachment 1100875

Sounds like a great idea!
Hope to hit the sporting clays course tomorrow and smack some clays with a double…

 

[ParksPipes]

That may be. There should be a way to rectify any hazard?
I would accept that if it's a real risk but I don't see how it could be.
I've never been to their club so there maybe some thing/situation I'm not aware of.

Might be a CFO issue too….or maybe insurance?
Don’t know, just guessing, but club policy officially changed about a decade ago.
Have never chased it down as to why

 

[Pete04]

Probably more to do with misconceptions around black powder and modern skeet and trap shooters not wanting to deal with BP shooters, I have run into this before.
Cat

I hope that's not the case.

 

[iron cat]

I hope that's not the case.

I doubt very much if it is a CFO directive unless for some reason they think there is some ort of a safety hazard . Not sure how that works considering I have shot on a great many ranges since 1976 or so and thet
re was never an issue using black
I have run into the odd ATA and NSSA shooter who doesn't like black powder guns, think they are unsafe, believes they disrupt the flow of the squad ( which is true if everyone else is shooting smokeless) and simply think they shouldn't be allowed . .
Cat

 

[Licensed to kill]

I shot a round of skeet this last summer with my 9ga John Mullin sxs but want to shoot a round with my 20ga sxs flint this coming summer.

 

[Londonshooter]

I shot a round of skeet this last summer with my 9ga John Mullin sxs but want to shoot a round with my 20ga sxs flint this coming summer.

LTK, some years ago my friend was the gunner while I was introducing my (previous) dog to bird hunting using planted pigeons. He was using a sxs flint that he had built when he was a younger man.
Having one of my own in fine working condition is high on my list of guns I want to own and shoot.

 

[Licensed to kill]

LTK, some years ago my friend was the gunner while I was introducing my (previous) dog to bird hunting using planted pigeons. He was using a sxs flint that he had built when he was a younger man.
Having one of my own in fine working condition is high on my list of guns I want to own and shoot.

I have 2 sxs flints, a 12ga that I built in 2003 or 4 and the other an original 20 ga circa 1790’s. I don’t shoot them as much as I should but plan to remedy that.

 

[brybenn]

Its kinda fun watching the reactions when I touch of a black powder cartridge on the skeet field. Alot of smiles and laughs after the initial jump

 

[warzaw]

I have 2 sxs flints, a 12ga that I built in 2003 or 4 and the other an original 20 ga circa 1790’s. I don’t shoot them as much as I should but plan to remedy that.

Skeet with a BP flintlock that would be something .