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Man i was busy. Did make it out to the range. Took 4 .44cals and a 22lr. Ruger mark II. for the younger one.
Must have shot about 200 .44. First to go out yep mr. WALKER. Second to go out 1861 Army. Amazingly ended the day shooting the heck out of my ASM 1851 and my 1851 Pietta. Both just kept on working. End the end We started to see signs of fouling in the ASM. So it looks like the Pietta wins the day. Never fouled once kept shooting till the end. Problem was we ran out of ammo for the 22.

Once at home looks like a spent cap found its way into the works AGAIN in Mr. WALKER. So the hammer was not hitting hard enough on the caps. Looking at the WALKER really good. It appears i am in need of another wedge and a main spring. As i can see some cracks appearing towards the main bend. NOT GOOD. the 1861 Well seemed like the main bolt was rather fouled and was just in need of a good cleaning. The 1851's though. Wow they just kept shooting i was using 24 grains of GOEX. Forgot to take the home made stuff.

Here are some pics kinda shotty though using my cell.
 
The Mass 5th Battery had a live cannon shoot in southern NH today. I got there just as it ended. But I got to shoot an original 1861 Springfield and a replica Enfield. That Springfield is amazing considering its age. Also fired a Lyman Remington NMA .44. Nice gun.
As far as mainsprings - I read that if you scratch a mainspring it will create a weak spot that will cause the mainspring to break sooner than later.
Good to see the kids shooting. Do they like the BP guns? My son has a Hawkins .50.
 
heck ya. they love them. My older son loves to get to the range as soon as it opens or before it opens. So he can shoot the WALKER. Loves to hear peoples car alarms go off. We always laugh. A car alarm at an out door shooting range. My 50 caliber is always fun to shoot too. Anthony has shot steel with that rifle at over 200yards iron sights. Way better than me. I probably could do that too about 20 years ago.
 
Pohil man i would have loved to do what you did today. did you get any pictures of those guns. Wow out here in California we would never see anything like that. Unless your watching it on TV.
 
When my daughter was 18 a few years ago we went to the range with the 1860 .44. She shoots well, and she took one target home in which she got a bullseye, signed the target, dated it and hung it on the refrigerator just to bust my chops. One day my friend, a Korean War veteran, and his wife were over. His wife looked at the target on the refrig and asked me about it. I told her the story of how my daughter got a bullseye and was showing it off. Then she said to me, "Oh my, what did it do to the refrigerator?" My friend rolled his eyes and walked away.
 
hahahahahaha. omg I dont know if i could have looked her in the eyes again. Would have fallen down with laughter.
 
This is a pic of the cannon fire from last year (same crew, same cannon)
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This is the original Springfield that I fired today.
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The owner of the Springfield was shooting it at 50 FEET. I said for cripes sake you can stab someone with the bayonet at 50 feet. It was shooting very high, so I tried it at 50 yards and it was right on. He's a history teacher and we dug some of the Minnie balls out of the dirt berm so he could show his students. It's pretty cool to see these guys in authentic Union uniforms (sorry, Rebs).
 
I got to try out my homemade BP at a real Cowboy Action Match. It worked like a charm. First CAS match I've been to in WAY TOO LONG. I only used the homemade in my capnball revolvers. The rifle (.44-40) was loaded with Goex and the shotgun with a light load of Pyrodex RS. The shotgun is an old 10 gauge Albert Greener I got for Christmas from my brother.

Here's a video of one of the stages:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pulkBJypPVY
 
Man,, you all had all the fun today,, but I did carry when I mowed the first of the yard.. Seems the neighbor killed Three water mocasions in his yard this week.. Dumb butt, probably were "chicken snakes" which I don't mind..

didn't want any surprises if I stepped off the tractor out there.:what:
 
CAS looks like fun. But I gotta ask - isn't that how you guys in OK dress all the time? haha
 
It's funny but you think that guns are frowned on in the east but I belong to two gun clubs within 7 miles of my house, and there's probably another 10 or so within 15 miles. CAS or SASS (not sure of the difference) is pretty big out here.
 
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All this talk of shooting and here I am with a bumb foot for another 6 weeks. This sucks I am just now able to get around with a cane. After I got back from Az I got up at 3am and was heading down stairs and stubbed my big toe on the banister. By the time I got up in the morning I couldnt walk. Went to the doc and last week they operated on my foot now I have a plate and 2 screws holding my toe in place I guess I shattered the bone that holds it to the foot. Which reminds me does anybody know where I can buy some steel toed slippers.
 
Sorry to disappoint you Pohill, but when I'm not shooting I wear my pants on the outside of my boots.

CAS and SASS are not the same, but then again they are. SASS (Single Action Shooters Society) is a governing body. CAS(Cowboy Action Shooting) is dressing up like a cowboy and shooting. SASS owns a trademark on CAS, but you don't have to belong to SASS to CAS. Other governing bodies are NCOWS (National Coalition of Western Shooters), W3G (Western 3 Gun) and there's another one I can't think of right off. SASS is biggest, NCOWS is the strictest on dress and firearms,
W3G is the newest.
 
Speaking for those of us who work weekend shifts (24 out of 48 hours of it, too): we envy and despise you for your wonderful day of shooting. Ptooi! ;)

jm
 
ya well i know how that is. Just 1 day off is all i get this week. Going to work in a few hours.
 
I went to work..................all day........................14hrs..................



BUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!


Oneshooter
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Grimshaw, Scrat and Oneshooter, I'm on 12 hour rotating shifts too. This happened to be my long weekend. Off from Thursday night till the Friday night of next week.
That long week-end is about the only thing good you can say about 12 hour shifts. Well that, and if there is no overtime scheduled we only work 14 out of every 28 days.
 
Scrat,

you mentioned shooting four 44 but then mentioned an 1861 and an 1851, I know they have bastardized the 1851 but have they done the same to the 1861???
 
.44 caliber roundball after hitting a metal plate at 100 yards fired from a Walker (50 grs BP) on Sunday.
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Pulp, I am not on a rotating shift. We are behind in production and I went in to help with the weld out. Lost a couple of welders last week and it really hurt production!!

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas
 
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