Posted on 08/04/2006 8:52:49 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
These are targets printed in Ned Roberts book "The Muzzle Loading Cap Lock Rifle". Accurate rifles are not a new invention.
Thanks for digging this up.
I saw your posts on the earlier sniper thread and concurred with you. Anyone who doesn't think that 19th Century firearms were capable of long range lethal hits is wrong.
In skilled hands they were quite proficient killing machines.
L
I bought the book in 1974, it is now becoming a collectors item. It is really a good reference. Most libraries can dig one up through the interchange program, if you ask.
I have the utmost respect for the USMC, but they really are not the only folks who can use a rifle. BTW, these are all iron sight targets, no 12X optics back then.
And you're right about the USMC, but do me a favor and smile when you say it please. I thought I could shoot when I joined the Corps but my Instructor showed me how to score hits at 600 meters using the iron sights on an M-16.
Once I got my MOS, the schooling really started and it wasn't all about shooting.
Thanks for the tip on the book. I'll see if I can dig it up.
L
I got trained by old squirrel hunters who believed that anything but a head shot is a waste of meat. When I started shooting black powder competition, I only had one rifle, a flintlock. I could shoot it against the caplocks, but not the other way around. I did pretty good. The lock time on a flintlock is highly variable, sometimes fast, sometimes not, you got to hold until it goes off, a flinch shows up big time, LOL. My right eye still has scars.
In Kalifornicate - the last time I bought a black powder firearm - I paid cash and walked out of the store with the weapon on the same day of purchase.
No registration...
No waiting period...
No background check...
WHY?
Blackpowder arms must be considered "non lethal"..
That would come as a shock to a whole lot of dead folks.
Semper Fi
Well if times got bad and the streets unsafe I could load the Walker revolver. That sucker could stop the average Joe from coming in and also cloud the issue a bit.
I think the reason for the difference in laws is that it takes a bit more skill and time to reload.
I shoot Black Powder weapons when I want to relax on the range.
Gun show here in town this weekend. I'll be up there today to window shop, drool and pick up some more surplus ammo.
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