Big Fifty - Schuetzen Style
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:17 am
I posted this on the BPCR.net site, but since it involves a Shiloh I thought you guys might get a kick out of it too...
Here is one of my "Big Fifty" stories. I had just received my Shiloh
Business Rifle (a gift). I was an early production one that had sat
in a box in a closet for 10-15 years. The rifle was chambered in 50-
90. I had no idea what that was except that the hole in the end of
the barrel was big.
This was my introduction to BPCR and I got started finding cases, a
mould, information etc. About that time I met SPG at the range here
in Cody and true to form, he invited me to the 1st Annual Wyoming
Schuetzenfest. I guess he didn't realize that the .50 was my
only "legal" rifle for that game (single shot action). I didn't know
any better either. I showed up with a 100 rounds of full house loaded
shells – 675 gr over 95gr FFg. I drew a bench next to a one of the
games better shooters shooting some pip-squeak .25 cal something. SPG
was on my other side. Fancy shooting stuff everywhere, wind flags,
$500 gun rests, etc. I'm there over a stack of sand bags with open
buck-horn sights at 200 yards. My goal was NOT to hit someone else's
target!
I'd pull the trigger and stuff would fall out of the rafters of the
shooting line. Along with a curse from several guys that couldn't see
past ten yards due to the smoke, Garbe was laughing and this other
guy was moaning about the noise and blast. After it was all done, I
realized that the "Big Fifty" is not really a Schuetzen rifle – but I
had fun and lived to tell the story. A hundred rounds of a "buffalo"
load, with that military butt gives an appreciation for the type of
real men the hunters were. Hats off to them.
Rick Patton
Poison Slinger
Here is one of my "Big Fifty" stories. I had just received my Shiloh
Business Rifle (a gift). I was an early production one that had sat
in a box in a closet for 10-15 years. The rifle was chambered in 50-
90. I had no idea what that was except that the hole in the end of
the barrel was big.
This was my introduction to BPCR and I got started finding cases, a
mould, information etc. About that time I met SPG at the range here
in Cody and true to form, he invited me to the 1st Annual Wyoming
Schuetzenfest. I guess he didn't realize that the .50 was my
only "legal" rifle for that game (single shot action). I didn't know
any better either. I showed up with a 100 rounds of full house loaded
shells – 675 gr over 95gr FFg. I drew a bench next to a one of the
games better shooters shooting some pip-squeak .25 cal something. SPG
was on my other side. Fancy shooting stuff everywhere, wind flags,
$500 gun rests, etc. I'm there over a stack of sand bags with open
buck-horn sights at 200 yards. My goal was NOT to hit someone else's
target!
I'd pull the trigger and stuff would fall out of the rafters of the
shooting line. Along with a curse from several guys that couldn't see
past ten yards due to the smoke, Garbe was laughing and this other
guy was moaning about the noise and blast. After it was all done, I
realized that the "Big Fifty" is not really a Schuetzen rifle – but I
had fun and lived to tell the story. A hundred rounds of a "buffalo"
load, with that military butt gives an appreciation for the type of
real men the hunters were. Hats off to them.
Rick Patton
Poison Slinger