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
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
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