'63 shiloh carbineh
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:55 pm
I took 4 guns to my range Friday. I first unlimbered my Shiloh '63 carbine. I shot my X-mas tree bullet
lubed with beeswax/neatsfoot oil lube, a commercial minie cast in a lyman mold, and hornaday 54 roundball
breech seated with a lube card between ball and powder.
Rather than making paper cartridges I use loose powder or Hahn's tubes or paper tubes I make with hair curler paper.
I have shot the carbine a few times before, and found the barrel sight too crude for my aging eyes.
The gun now has an MVA tang sight. My target was an NRA highpower target scaled for 100 Yds. I shot at 50 and then 100 yards.
Both the Xmas tree bullet and the minie shot 2" groups at 50 using 60 gr Goex FFg loaded loose. 5" at 100.
I started shooting the round balls with Hahn's tubes loaded with 65 grs. Barley kept them in the black at 100.
I had so much fun I spent the rest of the day shooting at steel that I didn't take another gun out of the case.
Next stop--load development.
I busted two caps after drying out the barrel and puttting the block togther with anti-seize compound, then shot all day without
cleaning the block. I pushed a couple of soap and water damp patches down the bore after about ten shots.
This probably is the most fun I've had shooting.
Loophole
lubed with beeswax/neatsfoot oil lube, a commercial minie cast in a lyman mold, and hornaday 54 roundball
breech seated with a lube card between ball and powder.
Rather than making paper cartridges I use loose powder or Hahn's tubes or paper tubes I make with hair curler paper.
I have shot the carbine a few times before, and found the barrel sight too crude for my aging eyes.
The gun now has an MVA tang sight. My target was an NRA highpower target scaled for 100 Yds. I shot at 50 and then 100 yards.
Both the Xmas tree bullet and the minie shot 2" groups at 50 using 60 gr Goex FFg loaded loose. 5" at 100.
I started shooting the round balls with Hahn's tubes loaded with 65 grs. Barley kept them in the black at 100.
I had so much fun I spent the rest of the day shooting at steel that I didn't take another gun out of the case.
Next stop--load development.
I busted two caps after drying out the barrel and puttting the block togther with anti-seize compound, then shot all day without
cleaning the block. I pushed a couple of soap and water damp patches down the bore after about ten shots.
This probably is the most fun I've had shooting.
Loophole