Gibbs Rifle

[One Shot]

Not sure if this falls within traditional muzzleoaders or not. I just bought a Pedersoli Gibbs .45 and going to give this a try as well in addition to my flintlock and caplock firearms of which I have been shooting out to 300 and 400m every so often with a couple of my traditional rifles. So now I will see if I can actually reach out to 1000m.

[Oldetexian]

   OOORAH!

[Ohio Joe]

That ought to be a fun rifle to shoot. And reaching out to 1000 meters someday - excellent! 

[Oldetexian]

1,000 metres??? That is a powerful long way... I cannot even see that far...so I salute ya, fellow Jarhead!

[One Shot]

1,000 metres??? That is a powerful long way... I cannot even see that far...so I salute ya, fellow Jarhead!

They shoot out to this distance with these rifles. It will be interesting...

[Ohio Joe]

This is something I always wanted to do... I remember spending many a nights quizzing our TMA Uncle Russ about long range muzzle loading... I bet that was a decade ago or longer, at least.

I was wanting to build a dedicated .45 with a fast twist barrel that would take the long lead bullet for a fast twist barrel... Never got around to building one obviously, and at my age now,,, I'll just have to settle for what I have, and 100 yards for my long range shooting. Eyesight sure ain't what it use to be.

Keep us posted on how you do with it. 

[Bigsmoke]

You should not have any trouble reaching out that far, as long as you have a tall enough rear sight.  I am thinking about two feet tall should do it  
I recollect shooting 1,000 yard matches with an M-14 a lifetime or so ago.  That is long, far away, for sure.  I got rather familiar with the sight of Maggie waving her drawers at me.  hah!
Like others, looking forward to reports on how the Gibbs does.
John

[Hawken]

The exact reason I'm in ML PRB today is to get away from the elongated projectiles of the Sharp era! Cutting patches, rolling and patching bullets, casting (by the thousands) I might add, cleaning cases, cutting grease cookies, compressing powder charges, seating OPW, seating bullets.....etc etc. and it went on and on! Fellows...for 20 years or more I did that and finally I had an awakening! I WAS TIRED! I can't sit and cast bullets for hours anymore BUT....I can take whatever Hawken or Leman rifle out to my shaded back yard and have the biggest time of all with my components coming right out of a shooting pouch hanging on my side! Way lot less trouble....and IMO...a lot more satisfying!! What I was doing was a long and hard road to travel!!

[Bigsmoke]

Hawken,
What all you said, ditto.
I briefly touched upon the BPCR stuff and realized real quick that I had neither the time nor the ambition to do all the reloading that it required.
Then I got a slight bug for cowboy shooting and realized it was going to be more reloading, and frankly, I just never cared for all that.  I still have the guns that I acquired, but I bet it has been 20 years since I fired any of them.  Why keep them?  Why not.
Heck, I just am not shooting anything anymore.  And that is making me a dull, drab fellow.
But, I am still making powder horns, just not so much as I used to do.  So, all hope is not lost.
John

[One Shot]

Hawken and Bigsmoke the Gibbs is a muzzleloader not a BPCR. It does shoot elongated bullets though.

[Bigsmoke]

Hawken and Bigsmoke the Gibbs is a muzzleloader not a BPCR. It does shoot elongated bullets though.

Thank you, I am aware of that.

[Ohio Joe]

I read in Ned Roberts book (The Cap Lock Rifle) that the famous American Creedmoor team of the 1870's used Cartridge Sharps Rifles and loaded them from the muzzle for best accuracy... I believe they may have done the same with the Remington Rolling Block? Must of worked okay for them, they beat the Irish team which was no small feat back in the day as I understand it.

[Hawken]

Hawken and Bigsmoke the Gibbs is a muzzleloader not a BPCR. It does shoot elongated bullets though.

Thank you, I am aware of that.

Yep....pretty familiar with the Gibbs!