The Hijack Zone - Zombies Welcome

[HVAC Cruiser]

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Ya I have one of those stories about one of the pieces my pops gave me...I'd type it all out but it hurts too much to tell the tale....

Lets just say broke/pawn shop/good intentions gone bad/lost it/can never tell him...

I feel your pain, stuff like that just kinda eats you up inside

 

[aspeck]

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Hey aspeck glad to hear the scope was still on the money, was your little one able to get a deer yesterday?
Good Luck with the hunting today

Nope, didn't see a deer, but she was excited because a flock of turkeys flew in and roosted all around us. She told me I could shoot one if I wanted! How nice of her, but I don't think the Game Warden would have been so accommodating!

As for today, 5 of us were hunting and we brought a 4 point (that would have been a nice 6 if one antler wasn't broken off) and a big doe. Could of had some more doe, but we were being particular. The buck was shot at the top of a steep hill (any steeper and it would have been a cliff). It slid the whole way to the bottom ... wrong side of the mountain!

As for guns, get a bigger gun cabinet! I sneak another in every chance I get. Just put it in the safe and hope SHE doesn't notice. The safe is full, so I had to get a gun cabinet ... really want another safe.

 

[HVAC Cruiser]

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Well I think I made a decision about the scope. Not going to get one for the black powder. Here is my target from today shooting with open sights. The high shots are at 50 yds, the low shots are at 100 yds. Taking my time I was actually able to make my 1st 3 bullets touch at 100 Yds
after accounting for trajectory I was about 1" out.
From what I can see the gun is set for about 75 yds which is my average shot hunting on the property

I think that's good enough the gun is shooting 1" to the right but I now know this and really didn't feel like adjusting to much.

And guys, no picking on me for the few stragglers lol

 

[WIMUSKY]

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I hear ya. A scope may just screw up your shot. Nice shootin' HVAC Cruiser!

 

[HVAC Cruiser]

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I hear ya. A scope may just screw up your shot. Nice shootin' HVAC Cruiser!

Thanks, I wasn't on my best game at the 50 for some reason. Those 1st 2 top shots was the gun out of the box without touching the sights.I was actually in shock that it was pretty much on the money. Believe it or not I touched the adjustment just 1/2" to even out between 50 & 100 yds. I'm thinking the shooting to the right is from tilting the gun (I have had that problem before). I'm a lefty from shooting a lot of semi right handed weapons, I have developed a real bad habit of tilting the weapon to avoid getting hit in the face with spray and shells

 

[WIMUSKY]

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I tend to tilt too, but I have no explanation why. And I'm a righty. Say, you said you have a T/C Triumph. Not familiar with that model. How about posting a pic sometime? Are you shooting PowerBelts or sabots? Or, something else? How many grains of powder? Just curious..... Our BP season ends Wed nite. Haven't seen a deer yet. Talking a snow storm arriving Tues. afternoon too. Maybe Tues. morn might be good to be out. They may move b/4 the storm hits..

Time to watch my Vikes.....

 

[HVAC Cruiser]

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I tend to tilt too, but I have no explanation why. And I'm a righty. Say, you said you have a T/C Triumph. Not familiar with that model. How about posting a pic sometime? Are you shooting PowerBelts or sabots? Or, something else? How many grains of powder? Just curious..... Our BP season ends Wed nite. Haven't seen a deer yet. Talking a snow storm arriving Tues. afternoon too. Maybe Tues. morn might be good to be out. They may move b/4 the storm hits..

Time to watch my Vikes.....

Sorry to hear you haven't seen any deer, when it gets cold, they move. I actually have been seeing but I have been trying to push them towards my friend that hunts with me, every year I shoot but he hasn't in the past 3 years. Last weekend I pushed a ton to him he never shot, starting to wonder if he just likes the time away from the wife.

I will get a pic posted tomorrow its the quick breech model, the gun breaks like a shotgun the breech plug comes out with a 1/4 turn, no wrench needed, 209 primers.
I was shooting today with 2x50gr triple 7 magnum and T/C 250gr shockwave sabots

Just got off the phone with a buddy says there is 6" snow on my property and it COLD, = now comes real hunting time I'm going up thursday to finish out rifle season, BP starts on Monday so so I'm probably gonna stay till at least Tuesday so hopefully I'll be butchering lol

 

[WIMUSKY]

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It's not too bad not seeing deer in the BP season. Shot a couple during the regular WI firearm season and hunted MN firearm season too. Starting to get my fill of hunting for one year.

So you shoot pellets for powder. Looks like your at 100 grains. I shoot 90grains of Goex loose powder. Still trying to find a round for 100yd accuracy. Shooting T/C maxi balls at the moment. Used T/C maxi hunter too. Both rounds kick like a son of a gun. Powerbelts don't work very good in my gun. Has a good enough twist in the barrel, but the barrel is very short. I think that's most of problem on the longer shots. I have some Hornady Great Plains rounds that I need to try yet. 385 grain hollow points. Picked up a bag of Wonder Wads. They're 1/2" wide, thick wool, that goes behind the round and seals the grooves in the barrel. Suppose to help for better accuracy. Haven't tried those yet either. Need to do some messing around next summer and find a good combination. The beauty of BP. Different rounds, different powder charges can all make a difference.

Well back to the game. Not sure who is playing the Cards. Neither the Vikings offense nor the defense showed up, so I don't know who the Cards are playing...

 

[PeterMcG]

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Well back to the game. Not sure who is playing the Cards. Neither the Vikings offense nor the defense showed up, so I don't know who the Cards are playing...

Must be the same guys who played the Raiders today and the Chiefs two weeks ago, because those weren't my Steelers out there....

 

[aspeck]

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Must be the same guys who played the Raiders today and the Chiefs two weeks ago, because those weren't my Steelers out there....

GAWD, ain't that the truth! How pitiful! This once great team, Steelers, that could snatch victory from certain defeat in the last minutes are now snatching defeat from certain victory! They much have their heads on backwards!

 

[HVAC Cruiser]

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It's not too bad not seeing deer in the BP season. Shot a couple during the regular WI firearm season and hunted MN firearm season too. Starting to get my fill of hunting for one year.

So you shoot pellets for powder. Looks like your at 100 grains. I shoot 90grains of Goex loose powder. Still trying to find a round for 100yd accuracy. Shooting T/C maxi balls at the moment. Used T/C maxi hunter too. Both rounds kick like a son of a gun. Powerbelts don't work very good in my gun. Has a good enough twist in the barrel, but the barrel is very short. I think that's most of problem on the longer shots. I have some Hornady Great Plains rounds that I need to try yet. 385 grain hollow points. Picked up a bag of Wonder Wads. They're 1/2" wide, thick wool, that goes behind the round and seals the grooves in the barrel. Suppose to help for better accuracy. Haven't tried those yet either. Need to do some messing around next summer and find a good combination. The beauty of BP. Different rounds, different powder charges can all make a difference.



Right now I'm using 2 50g pellets of Triple7 magnum with a T/C Shockwave Sabots. This Wednesday I am going back to the range and trying out the load Bob_VT uses, the Hornady XTP 300g I'm also going to try the 320g maxi ball and see what works best with the gun.
Yesterday I was having a bear of a time loading a 2nd round without patching 1st that really wouldn't work to well if I had to try to get off a 2nd shot in the woods
Initially I thought it was because the 777 was a dirtier powder, after doing some research on the net last night I found that the Shockwave is a harder bullet to load. Thompson even states to 1wet-1dry after each shot with the round
The gun has a 28" barrel
Here is a pic from the T/C website and a link to the gun

T/C Triumph

 

[WIMUSKY]

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T/C Triumph

Cool. Very nice. That Speed Breech XT must come in real handy when cleaning. I see it's "new to the T/C's family", no wonder I didn't recognize it. After you shoot it again, don't forget to post the target! No matter what it looks like.... Different rounds can act differently in different guns..(how's that for a mouthful).

 

[WIMUSKY]

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Here's my smokepole. I'm still a traditionalist........... for now. I also have other BP guns. An 1863 Colt musket, Lyman Great Plains rifle(w/set triggers) and a couple of single shot handguns.

 

[superwooter]

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well i just scrolled through the whole 12 pages and didn't see anything about antique cars and/or car restos. sooooo...........
HIJACK!!!

here's a few pics of my 65 ford falcon futura 2 door sedan with a 200ci 6cyl...

here's one with my friend's 62 VW doublecab on airbags...

 

[superwooter]

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no tattoo pics/discussion yet???

HIJACK!!!

HERE'S MY 3 TATTOOS...

 

[superwooter]

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...and while we are going back and forth to the gun topic...

here's my CZ97b 45acp. it's double/single action, double stack magazine with 10 round capacity, shoots like a lazer beam, looks like a beauty queen.

and here's one with mine and along side my cousin's Taurus PT1911

and a bit off the wall, here's my tippman A-5 semi auto paintball marker

 

[thrillhouse700]

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So this is where HVAC been hiding! Hey man, what do you kill with your 45/70? Lost cause was at turners the other day and called me and told me they had a beautiful 1886 in stainless for 450. Im sure thats expensive since this is Cali. The guy told him it was for marlin fishing............ If I had a job I would consider it.

 

[vegasphotoman]

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Wooter, hate ta say it but.....since Im Mr Potty mouth..........

Guy tattoos!--->UNCOOL .........heck Ive got a few...wife does too..in fact she just did her 1rst tattoo on herself (foot) got a gun off EBAY...she did awsome.

COOL GUNS!

COOL VW and ford.....

Hot chick sleeved out.....lower back babe tat........hot gams with tat.....COOL

ps Heres my 68 Firebird 400 convertible the day I brought it home...it was a NY car..fairly solid considering its roots in NY..Orig interior was actually in excellent shape no tears!......sold it this past year...didnt do a thing to it for lack of cash and time (made a $500 profit) the things I would've loved to do to this car..... guess it just wasn't my time to restore it.......

 

[KRH1326]

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Hey,

Been out of town and away from computer...

I say, don't scope the black powder rifle.
I don't know about all of the modern rifles out there, but I built a .50 Hawken (T-C) from a kit when I was a teenager.

Regular rifle scope looks stupid on it. I did buy an era correct scope for it. It was just a brass tube about 3/8" diameter that ran the length of the barrel. It constantly collected moisture and could never see through it, unless nice and warm, indoors.

 

[KRH1326]

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PS- I have a collection of black powder revolvers. If you think firing a BP rifle is fun, get your hands on a revolver. And , NO, I have never had chain fire, but improper loading can and does produce it.

I have a .36 1851 colt navy, 1858 sheriff in .32 , and a BP SA peacemaker.

The peacemaker spooks me to fire, but the others are a hoot.

Where I live, BP pistols fall through a loop hole. You do not need any kind of liscense or permit to own one. You can purchase powder, caps and balls and any other stuff you like. Supposedly you do need permits to load and fire.
At least thats how it was 20-25 years ago, I don't know if laws have been legislated that pertains to BP revolvers since.