Shot the .36 today!

[exMember]

We picked up caps for that 36cal navy Marty traded me. What a blast! I didn't have any 3f so I used 2f that I have for my 58 and used 15 grains, wow is she a fun little shooter! No recoil but a huge flash of flame.

i'll take some pictures next time out, but my brother in already hooked on it LOL.

 

[Muley Hunter]

15gr of 2F is kind of soft. Try 20gr.

I use to use 40gr in a .44 cal.

 

[exMember]

Its brass so you want to stick to the lighter loads.

 

[Muley Hunter]

20gr of 2F is not a heavy load for a .36 cal.

 

[Spitfire1]

Pete is right , my plinking load with the .36 is 24 gr of 2F

 

[inline50]

If the lighter load is accurate, I wouldn't see the need to max-it-out if you plan to use it only as a fun plinker or on small game.

 

[Spitfire1]

With 15 grains of 2F that ball will hardly do 500 fps.

 

[Muley Hunter]

More smoke...more fun.   

 

[Spitfire1]

Yes lot's of fire and smoke and you need to feel when the shot goes off as well...

 

[Muley Hunter]

When I was shooting CAS. I shot the Frontiersman class. That means two percussion cap revolvers, rifle, and shotgun. All of them have to use real BP. I used two Colt 1860 .44's, Winchester 73 in 44-40, and a coach gun 12 ga double barrel shotgun.

I loaded all of them with Swiss 2F. Swiss makes beautiful huge clouds of white smoke. You shoot 5 shots from each revolver, 10 shots from the rifle, and 4 shots from the shotgun as fast as you can. When i was done shooting you couldn't even see me through the smoke, and everybody is coughing and running away (woman). It sure was fun.   

 

[Muley Hunter]

A small example, but this guy is really slow. It looks better when you shoot faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYa-bVTwqRA

 

[Spitfire1]

The youngsters on the range normally also run away when we start blasting away with the black powder !

 

[ac10]

I watched that video. Man that looks like fun!

 

[inline50]

Watched the vid.   I can only image what it must have been like for westerners' to duel back in the day.

2X smoke from both sides  :lol: