Cascade Mountain Men. :) Awesome!

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Well, I came home from the mountain man show with all kinds of plunder. A couple of new possibles bags, bullet bags, patch knife, various ramrod accessories for the new .72, and a few other doo dads. I stopped by the range on the way home to shoot the .72.

I started with 150 grains of Swiss 1.5 Fg under the .715 round ball with a .015 patch lubed with Wonder Lube. The first thing I noticed was that the ball and patch combination was far too tight. It was a real bear to even get it down a clean bore. I'll have to go to .010 patch material, since there are not other options on the ball diameter.

The first three shots from the right barrel only cut one ragged cloverleaf at 100 yards. Unfortunately, the first three from the left struck about six inches low and right at about 5:00. I thought about increasing the charge to see if the barrels would come together, but then decided to drop to 120 grains. That seemed to do it - a couple of shots from both barrels went into a common group of about four inches. I ran out of elevation adjustment with it shooting about six inches high, so I went home for the day. I already have a different rear sight on it that will adjust lower, so I'll give it another go sometime this week.

You need to unlimber that GoPro camera and shoot some videos of the load and fire procedure like I did with my slug guns.