Black Powder Shooting Uk

[Brett Mcgalliard]

Arethere any blackpowder clubs in the Ea. Tn area. I am looking for reenactors,long hunter, mountain man type groups in the South East Tn area. We are currently memberss of the David Crockett Long hunters. Lawrenceville is just too far to drive for the monthly shoots.

There is a civil war BP group somewhere (actually lots of them around the north and south) and while they do wear a uniform, its really a shooting group. I cannot remember the details, only went a couple of times, but they did various pistol, muzzle loader, and all the way up to henry lever's and at the big events, they had morter & cannon as well.

Not sure if it is "too old" or far back for you, but we had a group of Revolutionary War reenactors at the Jon Sevier Range in Knoxville a few weeks back for a youth event day. Guy in charge said they had a bunch of members in the area and they did a bunch of events all over the south. They were all decked out in the uniforms and did some live firing demonstrations. Was pretty neat to watch.

We shoot the second Saturday of the month on a private field just off AEDC. Just a friendly bunch of folks who enjoy getting together & shooting our sidelocks. Monthly matches are all for fun/bragging rights (with, possibly, a little side betting )

This coming Saturday (weather permitting) is out annual Fun-Shoot. Card cutting, bullet chasing, ball splitting, string cutting, long range balloon shoot etc.... Prizes are up for grabs, but only whatever anyone is willing to donate

I too, would like to find a BP shooting club. I've got a friend in Sevierville who is a member of a CAS club. Haven't talked to him about it, but I've seen his photos posted on facebook. Looks like extreme fun. When I lived just south of Atlanta, I was a member of the 30th Georgia Infantry, a Civil war re-enacting group. I fought with them for about 4 years and then moved to TN and haven't found any groups here in eastern TN. I sold my musket (Enfield) to another reenactor and used the money to buy a Pedersoli .50 cal flintlock which I really love to shoot. Let me know if any of you eastern TN buffs find a local group. I'd probably be interested in joining.

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I can hardly believe howstupid my friends and I were back then. Our favorite loadingtechnique was topour black powder over the cylinder and into the chambers withoutmeasuring it. When achamber would fill up, we'd rotate it to the next chamber withoutstopping the flow. Of course, powder would get all over the topof the cylinder, a cylinder made sticky because of the Crisco from theprevious loading. After pouring the powder in this way, we'dram in the bullets. To prevent chain firing (or so we believed),we'd plaster (glomm)on a thick layer of Crisco to the outside of the cylinder, littlerealizing that the Crisco actually made matters worse. Speakingof chainfires, any shot might include a chainfire, so we'd we'dflinch every time we'd pull the trigger.

Back in those days, I remember that theCrisco made holding the smooth wooden butt of the pistol about as easyas holding on to a greased pig. I mean, the doggone pistol was soslippery that the muzzle would slide down as I'd try to hold it ontarget. Then there was all that nasty grease all over my handsand eventually all over my clothes as I'd forget myself and wipe themon my pants and shirt. No way did anybody want to ruin a leatherholster by putting a loaded and greased pistol in it. And wheredid most of this Crisco come from (?), it was blown from the adjacentchambers to the outside of the pistol rather than to the inside of thepistol where it would have done some good.

To make matters worse, there was the rapid build up offouling that resulted in poor precision and accuracy (even without flinching). It was just accepted that after thefirst three to six shots, the bullets would be all over the target. Finally, after about 18 shots, the pistol would be jammed withfouling, the cylinder wouldn't rotate anymore and so we'd take it hometo wash it out with soap and water andthus stink up the whole house with the odor of rotten eggs.

I developed a mistaken impression thatblack powder revolvers were terribly inaccurate, highly prone to chain firing, were asslippery as a greased pig, they jammed up after just a few shots and were anasty mess to clean, so after my initial fascination with them, Ifinally gave up and got rid of mine. For years afterward I shotnothingbut cartridge pistols and used nothing but smokeless propellants in myreloads. Years ago, if anybody would have asked me, I'd have toldthem that black powder revolvers are a lot more trouble than they areworth.

Everything changed about 15 years ago whenI got into cavalry reenacting andbought good quality Civil War period reproduction firearms as part ofmy equipment. I wanted to learn about the Civil War by living the lifeof an enlisted cavalryman (in so far as I could) and one thing I was eager to know was just how effective theseweapons really were and how to get the most from them. I had to relearnhow things were done back then because "much that once was is lost fornone now live who remember it." This gave me an opportunity to do some interestingexperiments and the more I experimented, the more I learned to enjoyblack powder shooting.

Well, I have learned a lotsincethose days and now I never get a chain fire, my bullets hit the target where I intend them to time after time, the outside of myrevolver isn't greasy or slippery, I can shoot round after round without the pistol fouling up andcleaning mypistol is fast, easy and odorless. For me today, black powdershooting is much more enjoyable and satisfying than it was "backin the good old days" and, as I said earlier, it is now my most funkind ofshooting. In the following articles I wantto share with you some of my experiences so that you too will findblack powder shooting your most fun kind of shooting.

For all these reasons and because theColts had been "battle tested" in wars from India to Mexico and incountless skirmishes by the most famous fighting men of the time, oldSam Colt felt he could charge bigmoney for his revolvers and he did. Remington was a "Johnny comelately" and had no such delusions regarding the worth of theirrevolver, regardless of its technical superiority. Remington'sreputationwould have to be built from scratch and so they were satisfied to sella lot of "plain Jane" revolvers without fancy color hardening andcylinder engraving for much less money and by doing so, impress governmentbuyersthat way (which they did). Once in the hands of fighting men, theRemington revolver would speak for itself and at the end of the War, itwas the preferred surplus revolver the returning soldier would buy and takehome.

Of course, there are many other types ofrevolvers on the market ranging from the Starr double action to thehuge Dragoons to the 9 shot + shotgun LeMat to the brass framed andhistorically accurate reproductions of Confederate manufactured pistolsin .36 caliber to Pietta's popular, but non-historic brass framed modelin .44 caliber (who's brand name I will not mention). They allwork the same,load the same and are equally fun to shoot, but "also ran" models areonly a small fraction of what people wereshooting thenand just a fraction of what people are shooting today, soI am not going to go into any detail about them. Let it sufficethat the general information presented here applies to them just as itdoes to the Colts and Remingtons.

The factis, no matter what type of revolver you have or you decide to get, itwill be a lot offun to shoot and the owners of each type comes to really like what theyhave. It is really hard to make a mistake here, so if you like thelooks of a particular model or you like some historical aspectassociated with it, buy it, you won't be sorry.

You re-enactors of eitherside, do you want to "farb" yourselves this way even if the ignorantpublic doesn't know the difference? You Southern re-enactorswishing to have"Confederate" equipment to be as "historically accurate as possible,"just remember that the vast majorityof arms used by the South wereweapons that were in armories before hostilities began, capturedweapons andweapons bought from overseas - andnone of these were in brass. It is highly unlikely (in my mind anyway) that any front lineConfederate officer or cavalryman would have carried a crude,regionally madebrass-framed.36 Navy Colt knock-off, but that the very few pistols that wereactually madewereissued to Home Guard units only.

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