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Yep.

What were you using Minie ball or round ball and what was the accuracy like .

Dave

Do we need one of those too ?

meles meles wrote:Do we need one of those too ?

That is one of the most culpably stupid questions I have ever seen.

Even although you are classed as vermin in some quarters the fact that you felt the need to ask does make me wonder as to when evolution left you behind.

We take it the hammer is for flattening them there molehills ? Or are the heaps of earth where you drop short ?

Dave 101 wrote:What were you using Minie ball or round ball and what was the accuracy like .

Dave

Prittchets, here is a description of the accuracy I wrote for another place.

"Well I shot them (0.550" Prittchets) with the 0.568" Pritchetts today. Loaded as cartridges with 69gns of TPPH

Both did well but the 0.550"s doing the best, they were grouping tighter around the 2-3" mark at 50 yrds out of a PH P53 but there were about half a dozen wild flyers as well which were probably from deformed bullets getting them off the pins.

The 0.568"s were 3-4" and pretty consistent at that however there were odd ones out of the group, these bullets are tight to load with two wraps of draughting paper which is 0.003" thick with a 4-1 tallow-beeswax lube and I was getting inconsistent shedding of the paper patch and probably some skirt deformity when tapping in a tight one.

Looks like 0.550" is the way to go.

I will need to try and drum up some more support for the NOE Pritchett."

From well cast and consistently loaded bullets Minies or Pritchetts I will expect consistent 4-5" groups over 10 shots at 100 yrds, I have a short Minie that will better that but as it is so light it looses it much after a hundred.

I have some old figure of merit data from when I last shot these seriously using 0.573" Minies (a decade ago) and I am going to get more down range when I get a good 0.550" Pritchett mould and start comparing the F0M numbers.

Here is a link to the sorry French Prittchet mould saga in the unlikely event that anyone is mildly curious.

http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/ ... let-Moulds

meles meles wrote:We take it the hammer is for flattening them there molehills ? Or are the heaps of earth where you drop short ?

Shame to have such low expectations of such fine and proven firearms.

Mark 1 sight adjuster.

dromia wrote:
Mark 1 sight adjuster.

Hmm, you might be better off with glasses, but if needs be we'll join the queue of volunteers lining up to give you a smack 'tween the eyes with a mallet.

You are a tad touchy today me old sporran in waiting.

Do badgers get hormonal periods?