Now you've gone and done it….
Next you'll be looking at a smoothbore flintlock..
They will kill…
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And some funny looking clothes…
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Welcome to the dark side…
Powder & load?
Please excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't shooting a right handed flintlock left handed expose your face to the flash from the pan?That's not me, he's a lot uglier than I am!
And younger!
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Sometimes I just have too sit down and shoot…lol
But I have shot left handed a few times when the situation called for it.. actually killed a deer once left handed… at 20 yards or so.
The eyes can also get exposed to the flash from the pan when the correct hand model is used.Please excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't shooting a right handed flintlock left handed expose your face to the flash from the pan?
I looked it up on Wikipedia.The eyes can also get exposed to the flash from the pan when the correct hand model is used.
A friend let me try his flintlock and maybe primed the pan with too much powder, and the particles got swept right up under my safety glasses and irritated my eyes for a while.
Safety glasses should have good coverage against the cheek.
100 grainsSako,
How much powder are you using with those Shockwaves?