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I read this and thought of you guys. I saw it on Muzzleloaders Brotherhood FB:
I went to the range today with shorty just to piddle for a couple hours and lucked into finding 5 unbroken clay pigeons so I set a couple at 25 yards a couple at 50 and the last one at 100, on my way back to the bench a couple younger guys showed up with their AR15 rifles and all the tactical garb that goes with them and one fellow looks at shorty and tells his buddy "Oh he's shooting one of those old timey muzzleloaders", so I just grinned and nodded, they set up at the same distances that I did, 25, 50, and 100 with shoot and see targets, and the first 10 rounds out of one of them had a group the size of a trash can lid, maybe 5 hits inside a paper plate, and his buddy says "pretty good man", so I picked off one clay at 25, reloaded and picked off the other, I said nothing but had a grin, then they both shot at the 50 yard target and out of 20 rounds 7 were on the target, so I picked off one clay, reloaded and picked off the other, now they are looking at me like WTF, without a word I reloaded and settled in on the 100 yard clay and one of mutters to the other "No way in hell", well, yup, I smashed it, so I stand up and ask if the range was clear and they both nodded so I headed down range to collect my target and I heard one of them say "this guy is popping clays at 100 yards with a dinosaur gun and we can't even hit a target at 50 yards what the hell", I had to bite my lip while packing up to leave, I love it when people underestimate the accuracy and ability of traditional black powder rifles, the looks on their faces is priceless when they see just how good they can shoot. - Red Beckwith
I went to the range today with shorty just to piddle for a couple hours and lucked into finding 5 unbroken clay pigeons so I set a couple at 25 yards a couple at 50 and the last one at 100, on my way back to the bench a couple younger guys showed up with their AR15 rifles and all the tactical garb that goes with them and one fellow looks at shorty and tells his buddy "Oh he's shooting one of those old timey muzzleloaders", so I just grinned and nodded, they set up at the same distances that I did, 25, 50, and 100 with shoot and see targets, and the first 10 rounds out of one of them had a group the size of a trash can lid, maybe 5 hits inside a paper plate, and his buddy says "pretty good man", so I picked off one clay at 25, reloaded and picked off the other, I said nothing but had a grin, then they both shot at the 50 yard target and out of 20 rounds 7 were on the target, so I picked off one clay, reloaded and picked off the other, now they are looking at me like WTF, without a word I reloaded and settled in on the 100 yard clay and one of mutters to the other "No way in hell", well, yup, I smashed it, so I stand up and ask if the range was clear and they both nodded so I headed down range to collect my target and I heard one of them say "this guy is popping clays at 100 yards with a dinosaur gun and we can't even hit a target at 50 yards what the hell", I had to bite my lip while packing up to leave, I love it when people underestimate the accuracy and ability of traditional black powder rifles, the looks on their faces is priceless when they see just how good they can shoot. - Red Beckwith