Traditional Muzzleloading Association

Traditional Firearms => Caplock Long Guns => Topic started by: morgan47 on February 11, 2009, 07:42:54 PM

Title: DOES ANYBODY SHOOT A ZOUAVE??????????
Post by: morgan47 on February 11, 2009, 07:42:54 PM

i just added one to my family of black powder guns.......does anybody have any info on these????need to know ......how much powder to load.....i will be using  goex black powder.......already have a minnie  bullet mold.....any help will be appreciated

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Post by: Fletcher on February 11, 2009, 10:51:08 PM

I had a .58 cal.  I could shoot about a 10" group at 30 yards as long as I aimed about 14" low of bulleyes.  Got rid of it as fast as I could.  It was sort of a gimme and was not worth a hoot.  It was an Italian replica.

I hear some have models that really do perform, but it was not a 'frontier style' that I like anyway.

Now that I got that off my chest - good luck with it!

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Post by: butterchurn on February 11, 2009, 11:27:14 PM

I have a Euroarms Zouave.  It is quite accurate.  I use 85 gr of 2F and the Lyman 575-213 510 gr minnie from TOW.  I lubricate with crisco.

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Post by: Mike R on February 12, 2009, 02:34:06 PM

If I remember right the original [repro] recommended load was 70 or 75 gr ffg and a minie bullet.  I used to shoot my budy's Zouave way back in ca. 1961 when they first started importing them. I have a chart somewhere that gives loads--I'll try to find it.

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Post by: l.cutler on February 13, 2009, 05:46:12 AM

Original powder charge was 60 grains musket powder, ffg.  Many use about 40-45 grains of fffg.  Your minie should be about .002 under bore size and must be made of soft pure lead or won't expand and engage the rifling properly.  It can take a lot of experimenting on powder charges and bullets to get these things shooting well.

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Post by: snapcap14 on March 08, 2009, 11:00:48 PM

42- 48 gn 3fffg goex proper sized minnie. mine liked 46 w/ RCBS Hodgens bullet

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Post by: shootrj2003 on November 05, 2010, 12:33:41 PM

It was the first muzzleloader I shot ,an older fellow used to take me shooting when I was akid -his whole house was lined with guns -they were his biggest interest and if I bought the ammo he'd let me use any gun I wanted ,that gun impressed me and one day I'll get one.good luck!