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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:12 pm
Won't be long before you are taking granddaughter with you and showing her the beauty of nature.......
Now that sounds like a grand plan! (And I'll be a grandfather to a l'il girl come September...)
I'm glad I opened and read your post Nath, as I'd misread it as: "Out" with the flintlock... And I was almost thinking that you were getting rid of it...
Instead of as "Out with the flintlock", which is just what you did.
I was just reading about how you guys were being overrun by imported gray squirrels and they were knocking out your native reds....Seems everyone is trying to shoot them. I wish I had that problem in Washington. I sure miss squill huntin'.
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BlaineG wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:48 pm
I was just reading about how you guys were being overrun by imported gray squirrels and they were knocking out your native reds....Seems everyone is trying to shoot them. I wish I had that problem in Washington. I sure miss squill huntin'.
Yes, they are everywhere. A trap box in my garden catches them regular.
Ray wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:24 am
make ? …. model ?…. bore ?…..load specifics ?…..
you've probably already told us before….
i have a v e r y short barreled number 30 percussion that i've tried unsuccessfully on backyard squirrels with 7/8 oz. of fives and 60 gr. of powder…..they mock me while lounging in their arboreal paradise, throwing hickory and acorn hulls down the back of my neck as i stalk them…. but their day will come…..let them laugh…. there is a kestrel and some feral puddy tats lurking about, and who knows, but i might finally hit one myself….
It's a.63". A Pedersoli trade gun. That day I was dumping about 75grn of powder and just shy of 1&1/4oz of #6(English).
Thin wads oiled and a full fibre wad wet with oil on top of the shot.
Ray wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:24 am
make ? …. model ?…. bore ?…..load specifics ?…..
you've probably already told us before….
i have a v e r y short barreled number 30 percussion that i've tried unsuccessfully on backyard squirrels with 7/8 oz. of fives and 60 gr. of powder…..they mock me while lounging in their arboreal paradise, throwing hickory and acorn hulls down the back of my neck as i stalk them…. but their day will come…..let them laugh…. there is a kestrel and some feral puddy tats lurking about, and who knows, but i might finally hit one myself….
It's a.63". A Pedersoli trade gun. That day I was dumping about 75grn of powder and just shy of 1&1/4oz of #6(English).
Thin wads oiled and a full fibre wad wet with oil on top of the shot.
Have you patterned your .30"?
N.
I have not patterned it properly....just riddled a soda can at 15 paces and assumed it good to go.....there are probably several squirrel sized holes in its average pattern....it is a #30 b.t.w. not a .30".... Closer to a .54"....just as your's is a #19 after the old way of gauging and probably referred to as a 20.....
pardon the confusion in mode of measurement..... I have learned to measure balls to the pound so I don't have to translate using a gauge chart when reading Oswell, Baldwin, Baker, Chapman, Roberts, Selous....etc.
Ahhr, I see, sorry.
Is it definitely shooting where you are looking?