Brutuskend
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Just wondering.
These black powder guns are a lot more accurate than I thought they would be...
These black powder guns are a lot more accurate than I thought they would be...
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These black powder guns are a lot more accurate than I thought they would be...
I think I was around 14 or 15. My grandpa let me use his cap and ball Colts for small game as long as I share the bounty... I’d been out for the morning and collected a couple cottontail rabbits but as I came out of the woods behind the house I spied Mr. Squirrel sitting atop grandpa’s roof. I knew better than to hole the roof but the squirrel just sat there working on an acorn so I crept a little closer, looking for a favorable angle and finally got a bead on him where I knew if I hit it’d decapitate the squirrel and if I missed, I planned to miss high. Crossed my toes for luck, took a fine bead and drew up the slack. Boom, down comes my squirrel and not a drop of blood. The ball just touched the top of his head and left a burn as it passed but under the skin it broke his skull. Grandpa said I was lucky to hit him, if it’d been a.38 I’d have missed high. Don’t I know it...I barked three squirrels with a .54..., which means I shot through the branch beneath their head to kill them from the concussion..., then my buddy asked where my round ball went after I shot upwards at a small branch ..., so I switched to using shot on squirrels.
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I won a "Stake Cutting Match" once..., each person had their own "target", and shot at a 2x2 piece of pine, 6' tall, and you had to cut it in half, at 25 yards, standing. First to do so won, second to do so got second place, etc. I was able to do it in three shots.
My eyes were younger then.
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