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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Snowmonkey you should really get a copy of "The Percussion Caplock Rifle" by Ned Roberts. It was orginally published back in the 40's by an old time BP shooter. Phew, at 220 yards 11 shots in the size of a half dollar, the shooter made the letter W, each shot overlapping the other. So your telling me BP isn't accurate?
Then there are the Creedmore, Elcho Shield and Wimbleton Long Range matchs (1000 yard). They were using Sharps, Remington and Peabody rifles for the American Team and Rigby Percussion rifles for the Brit, Aussie and Irish teams. The Americans won basically by default one of the other countries team members shot at the wrong target by mistake, so they lost by a point.
BP can be very accurate...the limitations backe then were the optics or lack thereof.
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