Anybody here shoot Long Range Buffalo guns?

[Jonny V]

I'm getting ready to go to the Quigley in June for my first time....been working pretty hard at it for a while now. Here's a video I did with my rifle first time shooting this one at long(ish) range....




Would be very interested to connect with any others who might be going or thinking on going....

 

[Chuck R.]

I used to compete in Buff matches, LR and silhouette. Did the Quigley for 3 years straight and placed; 12th, 10th and 12th. It's like Woodstock with guns. Great time, but not too much shooting for the time put in when compared to a 40 or 60 rds Silhouette match.

Once my son came along the BPCRs tapered off, too much time spent casting and loading. I now shoot 3GUN and IDPA, and load 1000s of rds in short order on a couple Dillons. I've still got my 3 BPCRs (.45-100 Shiloh #1, .45-90 Ballard R&C High-Wall, .40-70 Ballard R&C High-Wall) and am planning on getting back into it when the boy heads off to college and I start my 2nd retirement. On my home range I've got a Pig and Turkey set up at 200 and 385 Meters, this year I'm adding a ram at 500, so I'm slowly easing my way back into it.

Good luck, you're going to enjoy it!

 

[.455_Hunter]

I have taken my original 1873 Trapdoor out to 1000 yards on steel silhouette with custom loaded BP ammo.

 

[Grumpy_old_Fart]

how much do people look down on the guys who have 1885s in modern chamberings? i know you probably should'nt compete on silhouetes.. might get kicked out for hurting targets.

 

[Jim Watson]

You sure couldn't shoot the usually mild steel BPCR silhouettes with a "modern caliber." I don't know if you could enter regular MS with a single shot.

Dan Theodore was well known for picking up a Miroku Low Wall in a smokeless caliber on sale and rebarreling it to a BP round.

 

[Jonny V]

For what I’m looking at doing you’re limited to cast bullets and open sights. So with that restriction going to a modern round might actually be a handicap....

 

[Jim Watson]

I haven't shot BPCR MS in some time. The only nearby range required shooters to hump and reset targets and I was getting too arthritic. Apparently the other shooters and MD were, too, attendance was falling off and the matches quit.

I see they are going to resume as a gong shoot, a sighters swinger and a score swinger at each range, painted after each relay.
Hey! That means I can heat up the .38-55 that wouldn't always knock down a ram.

Not to be a Clip vs Magazine nitpicker, but $500 worth of Baldwin Soule tang and spirit level globe are not "open" sights.

 

[Jonny V]

I haven’t tried the Baldwin sights… I do have some Kelley sights and also a set of Lee Shaver‘s that I really like. Maybe I should look into the Baldwins for the next rifle?

 

[Jim Watson]

Baldwins are good quality and heavier framed than most, but they have service rifle adjustments, turn the opposite way to other brands. I THINK he will make them the other way 'round upon request.
I sure would not want sights to turn the opposite way to add elevation on different rifles.

 

[JCooperfan1911]

Matt Quigley didn't use his for buffalo.

Just saying.

It was also the sniper rifle of the 1870s. For a historical account, read about the Battle of Adobe Walls.

 

[Jonny V]

Q is ramping up...Quigleyville is growing every hour. Will post more video as we can get it done....

 

[Jonny V]

 

[12Bravo20]

I was always impressed with the long distant shots made with old black powder cartridge rifles. It does look like fun.

 

[Jonny V]