black horn

[long shot]

Shot blackhorn from my Gibbs today. Used 11 Cap, and 5 grains of 3fff Swiss under the 209 charge. Small charge of 50by volume. Seems to have promise.

 

[forrest-hunter]

very interesting- please keep up info- also if musket cap is used later on - wonder how this would work with hawkens type rifle - would also be interesting of pressure produced as this would be key to barrel and action response -

 

[long shot]

don't think it would work without the 3fff under it. also don't know how high to go on black horn charge. i did load 5 without cleaning, between shots and that was using PP

 

[1874sharpsshooter]

don't think it would work without the 3fff under it. also don't know how high to go on black horn charge. i did load 5 without cleaning, between shots and that was using PP

I used 70 gr on top of 5 gr pyrodex and it worked good for me
I never went above that but 70 of Blackhorn was accurate and I didn’t have any problems. This was in my White English Sporting rifle . I only shot 90 gr pyrodex in my Gibbs but it shouldn’t be any different than the ESR

 

[long shot]

will try that, Thanks