bet you cant wait timWould be interested in hearing what loads anyone with one is using. I still have a bullet mold, a few balls, caps
and patches so good to go when i get my ticket sorted and can take delivery. Tim
bet you cant wait timWould be interested in hearing what loads anyone with one is using. I still have a bullet mold, a few balls, caps
and patches so good to go when i get my ticket sorted and can take delivery. Tim
ballkeeper
Yep, getting exited. Will be a while until i can take delivery but starting to stock up ready.
Hi tac. I have the Lyman 575213AM mould which didnt shoot well in the 2 band at all. Will try it before
splashing out but im sure iv heard before somewhere that the AV is the one to go for. Used to shoot
60 grns of TS2 in the 2 band so will make 55 my starting point. At home today so have time to look at
the web site you mention and start looking at prices for an AV mould.
Tim
HI Y'all
I have a smoothbore Musketoon by Parker Hale. The current production is built in Italy and the one I bought was .56 NOT .58 as marked.
I use a pistol range of 25 metres and 40 grains is enough and accurate (for a smoothbore) any more and you are wasting powder.
I fire .565 dia.spherical ball -- I had to get a mould made. I use patches of .007" thick cotton. so it fits well in .58cal
Gogs
Sir - you have a Euroarms Musketoon, not a Parker-Hale. There were no musketoon barrels transferred in the original take-over deal back in 1995, only long barrels. It's good to read that you are getting some good shooting out of it - they are a heck of a load of fun, that's for sure. Yesterday was a guest day in our club, and six or seven folks who had never fired a big old boomer had a couple of shots each.. The smiles said it all.
tac
Sorry - I phrased that post badly.
I sent back the mis-sized italian made musketoon and bought a "used" Parker Hale musketoon smoothbore from Henry Krank.
In an email exchange with a gentleman in Euroarms at the time he suggested that my barrel was transferred stock from Parker Hale
at the takeover.
Thanks for your informative reply.I was shooting yesterday and totally agree -- for MORE fun you'd have to take your clothes off.
Gogs
According to my records, your .50-ish barrel was a smoothie because it had not been rifled - sold as stock unfinished. It is a legacy gun indeed from Golden Hillock Road. Prolly worth millions to a collector!!
Even a smooth-bore Musketoon is fun - do tell how you load it.
Besp
tac
Just had a message to say the gun has arrived at my RFDs place. Going over on Friday is there Any definitive way of
being sure its an English Parker Hale and not an Italian made one. i.e.; serial number ??? Tim.