I appreciate this channel, I have shot and cast for muzzleloaders for a while but your videos helped me take the plunge and try it for some of my old warhorses too
Very nice shooting. I do like running cast boolits through my surplus rifles, inexpensive and so much fun with pretty decent accuracy. Good luck at the match.
Back in the day, (30+) yeas ago when shooting NRA High Power we would have nostalgia shoots once a month, there was a group of people that shot 03's, 03A3's, Crag rifles and P17's. almost all those guys shot cast bullets for 200 yard SF, RF out to the 300 yard stage of HF Prone, the would shoot ether the M-2 Ball round or the 173 Gr special Ball round at 500 yards. There is nothing that a Jacketed bullet will give you in the way of accuracy out to 300 if you did your due diligences and found the right powder combination and size bullet diameter that fit your barrel. anyway, It's nice that people are rediscovering this. Good video, Peace - Dave
I haven't shot one of these across the course with cast bullets, but in our Highpower league we shoot a lot of reduced target matches (100 and 200 yard matches) and the past few years I've been using almost exclusively an 03A3 with cast bullets. It's quite a sense of achievement when you are able to best some of the guys with scoped ARs with an old iron sighted bolt gun and home-made bullets!
@@johnzx6r There is an advantage, reduced recoil and sight recovery. I'm at the age were my eyes have gone fuzzy, with reading glasses I can still see the front sight, however, I get a Halo effect when defining the bull, it's like looking at a circle with nothing in the middle. other wise I would shoot High Power once again. I still can shoot pretty well at the range, however, I can't do rapid fire, there isn't enough time for my eyes to recover between shots. So, pursue shooting service rifle, get good at it, have that 'burning desire' motivating you to discipline yourself, better your own score and don't let negativity get in between your ears when somehow you grouped some outside the black, (Score it and forget it). anyway, I like your series on Old school service rifle match shooting with the .30's, It is really hard to do. keep the great content going dude - Peace - Dave
There are a few things I could learn from you. Chiefly to use my words wisely, and stay on point. Today I want off on a rant, that even after some editing is nearly a half hour. Mountain man
I appreciate this channel, I have shot and cast for muzzleloaders for a while but your videos helped me take the plunge and try it for some of my old warhorses too
Good luck. Last week I got a 1903 from the CMP.
Nice!!
When I was a young guy I sold many P14's & P17's to others who were using the receivers for custom gun building!
They are very strong actions, and have probably been made into rifles in just about every caliber out there!
Very nice shooting. I do like running cast boolits through my surplus rifles, inexpensive and so much fun with pretty decent accuracy. Good luck at the match.
Thank you. I agree - cast bullets are just more fun through these rifles than jacketed bullets are!
Back in the day, (30+) yeas ago when shooting NRA High Power we would have nostalgia shoots once a month, there was a group of people that shot 03's, 03A3's, Crag rifles and P17's. almost all those guys shot cast bullets for 200 yard SF, RF out to the 300 yard stage of HF Prone, the would shoot ether the M-2 Ball round or the 173 Gr special Ball round at 500 yards. There is nothing that a Jacketed bullet will give you in the way of accuracy out to 300 if you did your due diligences and found the right powder combination and size bullet diameter that fit your barrel. anyway, It's nice that people are rediscovering this. Good video, Peace - Dave
I haven't shot one of these across the course with cast bullets, but in our Highpower league we shoot a lot of reduced target matches (100 and 200 yard matches) and the past few years I've been using almost exclusively an 03A3 with cast bullets. It's quite a sense of achievement when you are able to best some of the guys with scoped ARs with an old iron sighted bolt gun and home-made bullets!
@@johnzx6r There is an advantage, reduced recoil and sight recovery. I'm at the age were my eyes have gone fuzzy, with reading glasses I can still see the front sight, however, I get a Halo effect when defining the bull, it's like looking at a circle with nothing in the middle. other wise I would shoot High Power once again. I still can shoot pretty well at the range, however, I can't do rapid fire, there isn't enough time for my eyes to recover between shots. So, pursue shooting service rifle, get good at it, have that 'burning desire' motivating you to discipline yourself, better your own score and don't let negativity get in between your ears when somehow you grouped some outside the black, (Score it and forget it). anyway, I like your series on Old school service rifle match shooting with the .30's, It is really hard to do. keep the great content going dude - Peace - Dave
There are a few things I could learn from you. Chiefly to use my words wisely, and stay on point. Today I want off on a rant, that even after some editing is nearly a half hour.
Mountain man
Ha! Well, I've always kind of been a man of few words...