Variation going in for first BP pistol!

[coburn]

Despite having no interest in pistols over decade of firearm ownership ( mainly a hunter ) I allowed myself to be persuaded to try muzzle loading pistol shooting at my club and I have to grudgingly admit it is the most fun you can have on a range whilst remaining fully clothed.

Even stranger is that I appear to have something approximating a talent for it, managing a score of 101/120 on a PL7 at 25 yards with a club Rogers and Spencer.

I am entering my first competition this month and am in the process of putting together a variation form for this and one or two other bits.

A chap at the club has a Euroarms Rogers and Spencer in good nick that he wants 150 quid for, seems a no-brainer?

Any tips, observations or things to be aware of chaps?

I was a dedicated Gallery Rifle shooter till I tried BP revolver at my club some months ago, and I too are now hooked, quite content to shoot either the clubs R&S, Ruger O/A or Pietta .36 1858 so not thinking of a variation just yet.

[Randy Bohannon]

I was a dedicated Gallery Rifle shooter till I tried BP revolver at my club some months ago, and I too are now hooked, quite content to shoot either the clubs R&S, Ruger O/A or Pietta .36 1858 so not thinking of a variation just yet.

Thank you for sticking to the point of the OP coburn, my so called friends notwithstanding!

i did not think the attraction is the pistol part per se, it's the "naughty schoolboy" feeling of creating huge bangs and clouds of smoke as the .22 prone boys peevishly look on that does it for me.