Rounds Out!

My very sweet and lovely wife picked up a bore light for me to check the inside of the barrel. Everything looked clear, even thought there is still a bit of rust inside. After cleaning the barrel for a while the patches seem to go down the barrel really easy so I think it is time to send a few rounds down range. I decided to shoot three round balls to start with and see how things turn out after that. Here is the video from the first rounds out of my Grandpa Johnson's muzzle loader.





It was really great to hear that old muzzle loader bark! I have to say that it turned out to be more accurate than I had expected too. I hit the target with all three shots from at least 50 yards with no sight adjustments. I shot at a target that was 6 inches in diameter and hit all three on the far left side. I wonder if my Grandpa had felt that same excitement I did when I heard that loud KABOOM, the cloud of white smoke and sulfury smell of the black powder. Every time I shoot a muzzle loader it makes me wish I had grown up in a simpler time when black powder guns were the forefront of technology. A time when you spent your days living and surviving. A time with less distraction. It makes me wonder how out of touch we all really are with nature.

Enough of that. Next up with the gun, polishing up bits and pieces and working on the stock.