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I have been watching the hens working their way around the house for weeks. No little ones yet, but this spring has been pretty gentle, weather wise, so it shouldn't be long.
A friend of mine has a muzzleloader double barrel shotgun that he has let me shoot a couple times. I decided to invest in one for myself.
I purchased an old H&R 12 ga. online and a shotgun adapter to make it a muzzleloader shotgun. The adapter slips into the break action single barrel and it has an insert for a 209 shotgun primer. Now the problem was how to fix the gun to shoot loose powder and pellets. This 12 ga. has a 3 inch chamber, so I had to figure out how to get the components in and packed for the shot.
The answer came by loading 65 gr. of Swiss 2F, one large cleaning patch, follow with two more folded cleaning patches, one dipper (1 1/4 oz.) of number 5 shot. The best test results came when the loose pellets were only in the tube, past the 3 inch shotshell chamber.
Today I got my bird. The target shows the pattern at 10 yards. The large hole in the center was the patch over the powder. The other patches created a trail to the bird. The beard was 9 10/16 inches which is more than an inch over the minimum for the Oregon State Record Book minimum. A close shot is necessary with this set up.
A friend of mine has a muzzleloader double barrel shotgun that he has let me shoot a couple times. I decided to invest in one for myself.
I purchased an old H&R 12 ga. online and a shotgun adapter to make it a muzzleloader shotgun. The adapter slips into the break action single barrel and it has an insert for a 209 shotgun primer. Now the problem was how to fix the gun to shoot loose powder and pellets. This 12 ga. has a 3 inch chamber, so I had to figure out how to get the components in and packed for the shot.
The answer came by loading 65 gr. of Swiss 2F, one large cleaning patch, follow with two more folded cleaning patches, one dipper (1 1/4 oz.) of number 5 shot. The best test results came when the loose pellets were only in the tube, past the 3 inch shotshell chamber.
Today I got my bird. The target shows the pattern at 10 yards. The large hole in the center was the patch over the powder. The other patches created a trail to the bird. The beard was 9 10/16 inches which is more than an inch over the minimum for the Oregon State Record Book minimum. A close shot is necessary with this set up.