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Peter's original article on About.com click here In the pre-dawn darkness, a fading moon and crystal-clear sky hinted of a perfect October day. The hemlock-clad hillside I had just ascended was heavily populated with roosted turkeys. The tops of the hemlocks below and the oaks above grew clearer as daylight approached. The clucks and putts of elevated birds soon let me know that I was sitting within hearing distance of three different flocks. I waited for just the right moment of awakening bird activity to scrape the lid of my box call across the side rails. Turkeys began dropping to the forest floor as light penetrated the woods. The flock in the hemlocks was the first to react. After only 10 minutes of coaxing, the turkeys headed in my direction. I was in a sitting position, looking over the barrel of the shotgun that rested upon my knee. I touched off the blackpowder scattergun when a bird stepped from behind a tree at 30 yards.
A TURKEY REVIVAL
What the white-tailed deer did for the resurgence of muzzleloader rifle hunting in the last quarter century the wild turkey has done for the muzzleloading shotgun in the last 10 years. In spring or fall, the muzzleloading tradition of hunting wild turkeys is fun and contagious. More hunters every year find themselves calling spring and (where legal) fall birds into the range of their favorite primitive scattergun. I took my first wild turkey while looking through the hammers of a double-barreled blackpowder 10 gauge. Since that time, success has come with other muzzleloading shotguns, including a 20-gauge flintlock fowler, 20- and 12gauge caplocks and a modem in-line 12-gaugc percussion gun made specifically for turkey hunters.
RAISED ON SHOTGUNS
Upland game hunting with double-barreled shotguns was practiced in my family long before I appeared on the scene. My grandfather used a muzzlcloading double as a youth over a century ago. I was introduced to hunting as a youngster with a 20-gauge double, hunting squirrels and cottontails. In my teens I progressed to snowshoe hares, partridge, woodcock, pheasants and waterfowl. It has been 30 years since the passing of my grandfather, but I know for certain that he would be amused if he saw my father and I open our gun cases today. Deer hunting and special seasons are what put muzzleloading rifles back in business. Since the early 1970s, I have been consumed by the blackpowder challenge and have hunted whitetails, caribou, elk, pronghoms, mule deer, moose and bear. About a decade ago, the first muzzleloading shotgun invaded our blackpowder battery. The appeal was instant and the challenge is real. Suddenly, squirrels, rabbits, upland birds and wild turkeys began to provide more hunting action in one outing than the whitetail could in a whole season. My 6-year-old springer spaniel has been literally brought up as a blackpowder bird dog. PENNSYLVANIA LONG RIFLE, FLINT TRADITIONS PENNSYLVANIA RIFLE Historically accurate. Full length walnut stock w/cheekpiece. Stock inlay ornamentation & toe plate. Adjustable primitive-style rear sight. Wooden ramrod. Solid brass patch box. Double set triggers. 40.25 inch Blued Octagonal barrel. Flintlock or percussion.
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The blackpowder shotgun is a basic shooting iron. Literally, it is lock, stock and a smoothbore barrel. Percussion shotguns dominate the market. Like the rifle, the muzzleloading shotgun requires a full knowledge of its operation and handling. You should first read the shotgun's manual and learn the mechanics of the piece. After disassembling, cleaning and reassembling the shotgun, it is time to gather shooting components and head for the shooting range. Components should include blackpowder in FFg granulation, or Pyrodex RS or Select fiber, felt or plastic wad/shot cups to cushion and separate the powder and shot charge; appropriate shot to adequately dispatch the game intended; and thin wads of felt, cardboard or foam to be firmly seated on top of the load chain. Loading consists of
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*Looking back, I can't believe I waited so long to get into front-loading shotguns, after so many years of great scattergun hunts and memories. More hunting seasons, more time afield, more shooting opportunities, more interaction with game and a new appreciation for the good, old-fashioned fun are what you get when you pick up a blackpowder shotgun. PATTERN
PROOFING
Shot patterns are determined by the constriction at the barrel's muzzle. This is called choke. Patterning is done on large 4-foot-square cardboard or plywood backers with 3-foot-square sheets of paper to record each pattern tested. Chokes are determined by test patterns in 30-inch circles at 40 yards. A full choke should put at least 70 percent of the shot charge into the 30inch circle. A modified choke should produce a 50-percent pattern, an improved cylinder a 40-percent pattern and the no-choke cylinder bore should place around 30 percent of the pellets into the 40-yard pattern board. For realistic field expectations, a shotgun should shoot a 70-percent pattern into the 30-inch circle at the following distances: a full choke barrel at 40 yards, a modified choke at 35 yards, improved cylinder choke at 30 yards and cylinder bore at 25 yards. For example, a 1-ounce charge of No. 6 shot contains 225 pellets, so a 70 percent pattern would place almost 180 pellets in the 30-inch circle. SHOTGUN
PATTERNING TURKEY TARGET $4.99 Pad of 10 targets In many guns, good patterns are still derived from this method, but only through experimentation will you learn how a light load disperses shot rapidly, while heavier charges hold pellets together for longer shots. Like shooting a blackpowder rifle, shotgun loads can reach the point of diminishing returns. Too strong a charge can literally shoot holes through a pattern. If you are shooting a double-barreled shotgun, employ a method that makes certain which barrel is being loaded. I always place the ramrod in the opposing barrel during the loading process. (Marking the ramrod with "witness marks" denotes empty and charged barrels, and the ramrod removes any doubt about which barrel you are charging.) 5.Finally,
with the gun pointed in a safe direction, place a percussion cap on
the nipple, or put a priming charge in the flash pan, and you are ready
to shoot.
A blackpowder scattergun's accuracy is determined by the sighting-in process called patterning. Considerations during shot pattern testing include a) center of pattern vs. point of aim and b) density and consistency of the pattern at the shooting distance desired. A close quarters brush gun for woodcock and grouse is not going to be patterned the same as a goose or turkey gun, when shooting is conducted at greater distances at larger game. The effectiveness of a shotgun load depends upon adequate pellet energy and shot pattern in relation to the size of the game hunted. To think about...... To put the world in order, we must first put
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