Want Smoke? You Got It!!

Shot my Ruger Old Army’s for the first time today.

Fuckin’ awesome! 

40grains of FFg black under a .45cal round ball = lot’s of smoke (makes me wonder what 50 to 60grains of black is like when you pull that trigger on a 1847 Walker……oh momma).

The one thing with cap and ball guns, is I’m gonna have to get used to seating the caps properly.  There was a few times when I had to go around a second time to get it to go bang.  But on the plus side, I noticed I was flinching quite a bit.

Alot more power under those full house .45cal loads then even a full house .38cal load.  But like I mentioned, shooting black is more of a *boom* than a *bang*, and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about when you pull that trigger yourself.

And if I didn’t get a stoopid procedural on the first stage, I woulda gotten a clean match.

Oh well.