N/A Career Dragon Slayer vs mid 1700's big bore.

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1900colt

1900colt

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I took these two guns out today and did some shooting. The old Bosler that was most likely made in the 1740's was recently resealed using modern materials.

The Bosler was shooting a .465 ball which is undersized and I had no patches on hand... needless to say, it's accuracy suffered.

Career was shooting 495 round balls.

Bosler, 750psi and it went 614FPS
Career, 3000psi and that went 617FPS

I need to get better fitting ammo for the Bosler and see what it does though...

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1900colt said:
I took these two guns out today and did some shooting. The old Bosler that was most likely made in the 1740's was recently resealed using modern materials.

The Bosler was shooting a .465 ball which is undersized and I had no patches on hand... needless to say, it's accuracy suffered.

Career was shooting 495 round balls.

Bosler, 750psi and it went 614FPS
Career, 3000psi and that went 617FPS

I need to get better fitting ammo for the Bosler and see what it does though...

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Nice , and great to see you shooting them , instead of just display.
 
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JohnL57 said:
Amazing example of a rifle from a time when everything was made by hand, thanks for the excellent photos! Looks like it loads from the breech?
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It is a muzzle loader, with straight line rifling.
The gun is a rare hybrid type that can be used as a real firearm. Note the pin running through the flash pan and plugging the touch hole. With the pin out, and lever on the side up, you could use it as a firearm (you still need to load the gun first with a round ball to seal off the air tank from everything involved when shooting it as a firearm)
 
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