a little fun with paper patched bullets and the .45-2.6

[Gunlaker]

I think those old shooters were pretty tough. I'm a lefty so maybe that's why I like my rifles heavy. I should time the shot break with my heart rate to get a little jump start :-).

I think those guys generally shot coarse, relatively slow burning powders but I'm not 100% sure. In Perry's book there is a sentence that says something like "muzzle loaders burn lighting powder to good advantage". I used to think that this meant fast powders, but later learned that Lightning was a brand name.

I ad a .45-90 highwall that weighed 10.5 lbs and shot it prone at about 1350 fps for a while. I could never get consistent with it due to the recoil. For me, a rifle near the legal weight limit shooting a 535-540gr bullet at 1350-1375 fps seems to be about where I can control it well. The stock shape has a lot to do with it though. For some reason I can't shoot highwalls as well as a Sharps.

Chris.