[Tennessee-Traveler]

Thread hi-jacked. See below.

[Play Hard]

Can anybody comment on how a minie ball will do in a smooth bore?

[Loyalist Dave]

It will fly like a football kicked for a fieldgoal. It will tumble in flight. Roundballs were loaded for fixed ammo shotgun shells (aka pumpkin ball) until they developed the rifled slug which was a self stabilizing conical from a smooth barrel.

LD

[Macmac]

TT you might need thinner patching, and that could end up as silk...

I hope you continue to post because I run a 62 nor West gun which I made a matching pistol for and would like a rifle on the same for, but I would likely go with round ball just the same..

As a side note i would really like to see this gun get shot on vidio if it must be... any chance?

[Macmac]

Christmas mode? Tinsel with no balls?

How's that work? err maybe I don't really want to know...

[Play Hard]

It will fly like a football kicked for a fieldgoal. It will tumble in flight. Roundballs were loaded for fixed ammo shotgun shells (aka pumpkin ball) until they developed the rifled slug which was a self stabilizing conical from a smooth barrel.


Has anybody ever tried using a foster slug in a 12 ga musket?

[Loyalist Dave]

The problem is the muskets are 14 gauge and 11 gauge, so they probably wouldn't fit in the .69 musket, and would be inconsistent coming out of a .75 musket. Now..., maybe if we patched the slug to get it to properly fit the .75 bore. Otherwise I think you'd have about the same degree of accuracy as a roundball.

LD