.577 Enfield at 100 yards today.

[hillbilly]

Below is a picture of the results a friend of mine and I were able to get with a Euroarms .577 1853 Enfield rifled musket reproduction.

The target is life-sized, and available from "Law Enforcement Targets Inc."

The range was 100 yards.

Check out the size of those .58 holes.

We used 70 grains of FFg and a variety of projectiles.

We used traditional minies, over-sized minies, "target minies" and even a couple of sabot rounds from BlackJackHill.com.

The sabots did not do very well in the Euroarms Enfield, as they typically either hit the the dirt at 100 yards, or went way over the target to the berm at 200 yards. I'll bet they were even tumbling.

But the big lead minie balls seemed to do just fine.

My friend aimed at where BillyBob Methhead's belt buckle would have been, and produced the nice tight group around the handgun shown on the target.

We had a very stiff breeze, blowing almost straight across the face of the target from left to right.

I went for some head shots, and produced the holes in the target's chest and throat area (look close, you'll see the blue carpet peeking out the hole in the throat area).

But today, I gained much respect for Civil War rifled muskets and the meddle of men who could march in formation into rifled musket range.

Egads............

hillbilly

 

[4v50 Gary]

Hor's d' combat easily rendered. Even the one on the shooter's hand probably would have plowed into the forearm and necessitated an amputation. OWWWWWW! Thank goodness for humane modern bullets.

 

[Ezekiel]

I count at least NINE shots that instantly place this poor soul on the path to Valhalla...

P.S.: This guy looks far too healthy to use meth, he must just cook and sell it it. High-quality crank, I'm sure...

 

[hillbilly]

Imagine marching in a tight line-abreast at another line-abreast of about 1000 men all armed with such .58 caliber, flame-spewing beasts.

Good Lord...............

It makes the hair on my arms stand up.

hillbilly

 

[roo_ster]

I'd swear the target looks like David Lee Roth gone bad.

 

[Ezekiel]

Imagine marching in a tight line-abreast at another line-abreast of about 1000 men all armed with such .58 caliber, flame-spewing beasts.

Good Lord...............

It makes the hair on my arms stand up.

hillbilly

It makes me want to "soil myself".

 

[dfariswheel]

People are often surprised at how accurate a Minie ball musket can be.

I used to own one of the British produced Parker-Hale Enfield Artillery Musketoons in .577.
I'd bought the Lyman 560 grain mould for it.

At my old gun club we had a cut-out of a coyote with a 6 inch square "ringer" in it's center palaced at 100 yards.

I'd spend a leisurely summer afternoon shooting a hundred rounds, and could make the ringer clang almost every time.

The Enfield had the original style progressive rifling, and the last round loaded and shot as easily as the first, with NO cleaning for the entire session.