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My new Flintlock Pedersoli Alamo .50 caliber
G'day mates,
Well the saga is over, after three months of being buggered around by the clowns at firearms licensing I finally took possession of my flintlock Pedersoli Alamo .50 caliber.
I was so excited I went straight to the range, gave the girl a good scrub and went for a shoot.
I was pretty confident in my abilities after shooting for most of my life and using a caplock for the last two years but the flintlock has so much going on!
I got lots of failures to fires and flashes in the pan and had to fiddle with the flint repeatedly to get it to work and i discovered the importance of a clean frizzen.
Anyway I only had time for five shots using 50 grains of 2F pushing a .490 ball wrapped in a .010 greased patch out to 25 meters.
But i'm pretty happy so far.
G'day mates,
Well the saga is over, after three months of being buggered around by the clowns at firearms licensing I finally took possession of my flintlock Pedersoli Alamo .50 caliber.
I was so excited I went straight to the range, gave the girl a good scrub and went for a shoot.
I was pretty confident in my abilities after shooting for most of my life and using a caplock for the last two years but the flintlock has so much going on!
I got lots of failures to fires and flashes in the pan and had to fiddle with the flint repeatedly to get it to work and i discovered the importance of a clean frizzen.
Anyway I only had time for five shots using 50 grains of 2F pushing a .490 ball wrapped in a .010 greased patch out to 25 meters.
But i'm pretty happy so far.