Re-Barreling a Shilo

[DirtySteve]

Well these are the types of responses I was looking for. Also some of these boards for this type of shooting sees only a little bit of postings during a weeks time. So I try to get some folks posting to keep interest in our game. I hope KWilliams chimes in here. But I digress..

I shoot only paper patch bullets. Greasers give up too much in aerodynamics for me to want to consider those. Our rifles shoot too slow to begin with, and the PP bullets use less elevation than greasers. I shoot a mix of cast and swaged bullets. my neighbor and I went in together on a swaging set up from Dave Corbin. I will buy a mould if we or just myself wants to try something different. If I find some merit I cast him up some to try. If we both agree the juice is worth the squeeze we buy swaging dies. For example we started with a .442" tampered round nose bullet like they used back around the 1870-1880's. We now use a more "pointy" straight sided bullet of .445".

As far as the wind goes I cheat at a match. lol.. If I see shooters, especially shooters I know are hitting right. I increase my hold or setting a tad more because good shooters got it wrong so I learn to make bigger adjustments off their shots.

I have both Shiloh and C. Sharps rifles. So one being down won't put me out of the game. I want to get this type of shooting figured out so I can buy a rifle with pretty wood and have both scope blocks and open sights as my go to rifle.