Model12Win
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Hello everyone!
Well, I've been in the market for a black powder rifle/musket for some time now. Flip flopping back and forth between guns, I think I've finally settled on a Pedersoli made Springfield 1861 musket of .58 caliber.
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Pedersoli-Springfield-Caliber-Musket/1389473.uts
But, there's a catch. I want to shoot round ball through this gun.
Why not Minie balls?
Because I don't cast. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I literally have no room to safely do it. I live right in the middle of town, in a small 1-bedroom apartment. I have no garage, no porch, really no place at all to cast Minie balls.
Commercial Minie balls are 'spensive, no doubt... expensive enough that I wouldn't be able to shoot the rifled musket as much as I would want to, which would be fairly often. What I've found though, is that I can get .57" cast lead balls for about $0.20 a pop from Track of the Wolf. That I can afford.
So the thing is this weapon has a 1 in 72” twist rate of the bore. Is that going to be appropriate for a patched round ball load? Will I get good accuracy with this, or is that rate designed for the Minie ball only?
This is an important question that must be asked at this time. I am stuck in this apartment for some time, so won't be able to move somewhere where I can cast. But, someday, no doubt I will begin casting my own Minies for this gun.
So if anyone out there could please help me on this, it would be greatly appreciated. If you've got one of these Pedersoli guns, have you tried round balls and how have they shot?
Thanks so much everyone, your help is greatly appreciated!!
Well, I've been in the market for a black powder rifle/musket for some time now. Flip flopping back and forth between guns, I think I've finally settled on a Pedersoli made Springfield 1861 musket of .58 caliber.
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Pedersoli-Springfield-Caliber-Musket/1389473.uts
But, there's a catch. I want to shoot round ball through this gun.
Why not Minie balls?
Because I don't cast. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I literally have no room to safely do it. I live right in the middle of town, in a small 1-bedroom apartment. I have no garage, no porch, really no place at all to cast Minie balls.
Commercial Minie balls are 'spensive, no doubt... expensive enough that I wouldn't be able to shoot the rifled musket as much as I would want to, which would be fairly often. What I've found though, is that I can get .57" cast lead balls for about $0.20 a pop from Track of the Wolf. That I can afford.
So the thing is this weapon has a 1 in 72” twist rate of the bore. Is that going to be appropriate for a patched round ball load? Will I get good accuracy with this, or is that rate designed for the Minie ball only?
This is an important question that must be asked at this time. I am stuck in this apartment for some time, so won't be able to move somewhere where I can cast. But, someday, no doubt I will begin casting my own Minies for this gun.
So if anyone out there could please help me on this, it would be greatly appreciated. If you've got one of these Pedersoli guns, have you tried round balls and how have they shot?
Thanks so much everyone, your help is greatly appreciated!!