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Post by schoolmaster on Mar 7, 2018 22:33:43 GMT -5
Anybody else hunt squirrels with a flintloct? I am using a .62 caliber smoothbore. The range is limited to 20 yards or less. I am planning to get it jug choked to increase the range.
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Post by Russ Koon on Mar 8, 2018 11:52:29 GMT -5
Long ago, took my first muzzle loader, a 'Tennessee poorboy style' flinter with a full length, .45 caliber barrel squirrel hunting. Patiently waited for a perfect shot opportunity to avoid too much meat damage. Finally got a nice fat fox squirrel to sit still broadside to me on a horizontal section of heavy grapevine about twenty yards away. Took careful aim and touched the hair trigger. But the squirrel moved at the same time, and by the time the flinter had sent the round ball through him, the hit was mid-paunch instead of mid-chest. The squirrel went flying sideways off the grapevine, and was dead when he hit the ground, so the result was good. But when I picked him up, he sure felt light! Examined the wound and saw that there was just the round hole on both entry and exit of the paunch, with just a very small thread of small intestine trailing out the exit hole!
That round ball had taken almost everything from the diaphragm back right out the exit hole! Pretty much killed and cleaned with the same shot.
Decided the .45 was a bit much for even fox squirrels, and the lag time between trigger and shot would be a problem for the twitchier grays, so I never took it after squirrels again. Chased a few deer and groundhogs with it, but never got a good shot opportunity, so after a few years of punching paper and going to ML shoots with it, I traded it off and got a .58 inline H&R percussion rifle for deer hunting.
Never tried ML shotguns.
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Post by stevein on Mar 10, 2018 11:47:52 GMT -5
You will appreciate the jug choke. Caywood guns is one place that does them, but I don't know anyone that has one he did. The old boy that did my 10 gauge barrels and choke no longer does them or I would highly recommend him.
I have the parts for a .36 flint and will get it done someday.
I have heard you can still shoot roundball out of them with no loss of accuracy.
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Post by schoolmaster on Mar 11, 2018 19:40:08 GMT -5
Yeah, I am planning to send it to Cayhood. Don't know anyone else.
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Post by schoolmaster on Mar 11, 2018 19:40:39 GMT -5
wood
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Post by robinsroost on Mar 18, 2018 12:01:31 GMT -5
I have a .32 caliber Traditions Crockett percussion that will keep all shots in a 2' CIRCLE AT 25 YARDS, IF I do my part. It hits a squirrel about like a .22 magnum so it's head shots only, (shoot them in the face).
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