[ronin055]

A friend of mine sent me a link to this video. I was amazed at what this gun could do. And what it did for Lewis and Clark.

What an amazing piece of history.

And then I found this video where they test shoot a reproduction of the gun. So awesome !

 

[silentfury214]

Wow! Great find!

 

[hidden187]

I dont think its within legal fps for my field

 

[woogie]

That is one of the rifles that a lot of poachers would use back in the day.

That rifle is a great piece of american history, and a really cool rifle.

That is one of the items that got me into the air rifle side of hunting. As not a lot of people give a "bb gun" the time of day, when thinking about hunting.

I have taken game from coyotes to rats with my air rifles.

 

[ronin055]

I just thought that the history and the Tech were super cool and I would pass it on to you guys.

And ofcourse, it makes me think, what else could we do to improve on this tech to make our guns better? The PSI, FPS and range were pretty cool on this. So scaled back and applied correctly to what were doing, what else could we acomplish?

 

[woogie]

The thing to rememer is that with may pellet rifles, is that the barrels are rifled. Though some of the newer FX air rifles have a smooth bore barrel, and then the last inch or so is rifled. And they can get half inch groups at 100'.

 

[Cheese Man]

They also don't use spherical projectiles, right?

 

[woogie]

Depends on the rifle.

There are some large bore air rifles that are fairly accurate with round balls. But normaly the large bore air rifles will use muzzle loader ammo.

 

[Cheese Man]

How do round balls engage the rifling?

 

[woogie]

They are a little bit larger than the bore.

So when they are pressed into the breech, the rifling cuts into the ball.