Click the button below to add the cast round balls. Can you put musket balls rather than sabots in a modern. Those days a lot of people were talking about the new bots with 2 123 mass based on your starting mass, so i found an easy way to get them with an chrome extention called agar. Minie balls are a bit easier to use than round balls, since they dont need a patch and load easier. A round ball is unique among projectiles in that its ballistic characteristics are solely dependant upon its diameter unless its made of something other than lead. On this page, north american muzzleloader hunting will bring you the loads and ballistics for the. Would like to find one that with a single round ball 457,that would exit the tube at minimum vol without sticking in the bbl, and also one that would zip along above fps or so. The patch has to be large enough that it wraps a bit more then half way around the round ball. Discussion in the powder keg started by elkhntr1, aug 16, 2005. A little wax lube could hold the ball in place or even form a cup over the wad. Before hunting, grease your patch, center it over a hole, press the ball into the patch, and seat it into the hole using a short starter. Remember to turn post notification on become a member.
Im going to start with round ball because its cheaper practice and then mo. Homework statement a small ball of mass m is placed on top of a superball of mass m, and the two balls are dropped to the floor from height h. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. At this stage a patched round ball would push into a hole, but they went in rather hard and seemed to be ripping my patch some.
Theres so many sizes i dont know what exact one i need for round ball. Aecia on round or irregular, brown or blackishbrown spots 0. It was by far the most accurate load in that gun, and while labeled light by a lot of guys, it killed with alacrity. Patched round ball gun and game the friendliest gun. Both types of projectiles can be quite accurate if fired from the proper barrel. I dont hunt, so i have no data on effectiveness on deer. Posted by gunmagstaff on friday, november 14, 2014 06. League leaders all columns are sortable massillon tavern pool league. Misinformation related to the 201920 coronavirus pandemic. Click to enlarge, the target was the first round out of it.
The world robotics olympiad, being held in costa rica this weekend, shows human athletes still have little to worry about. Golf ballgathering ball picker robot is like a roomba for. Cloth will take the shape of the ball better than paper. Ill be the first to say ive only put down four deer with round ball as the projectile. Normally a rate of twist for a patched round ball if memory serves which, it hardly ever does any more would be something like a 1 in 70. I am not new to the tc or maxisminies, just patched round ball prb. After you load the powder and tamp it you place the patch centered over the barrel and the ball in the center then you use a starter or the ramrod and press the ball and the patch into the barrel. Upon posting on the site several individuals responded with guidence for troubleshooting the patches and how it could affect accuracy. Ucenlmoxfo0o6sxsdr6at35w thanks everyone for 6000 160 likes. Loading of the ball is accomplished by placing the loading block over the bore and simply pushing the ball down through the block into the bore. A round ball doesnt touch the rifling itself, the patch does.
Im trying to determine the midrange and point black distances for my. Wlmax, maximum growing season leaf mass of individuals, kg tree. False information, including intentional disinformation, has been spread through social media, text messages, and mass media. Bots battle for the ball, and the globe, in robot olympiad. Constant thickness, weave, diameter, weight and thread count help eliminate these variables from your shooting. The first though that crossed my mind is to use the neck as a wad carrier and seat the ball with its equator at the mouth. The future of traditional muzzleloader hunting by toby bridges. I understand that less powder or a single pellet should be used, but am looking for recommendations on patches, balls, etc. Patched ball has a lapping effect, and as you shoot the. Competitors design and operate remotecontrolled armed and armored machines designed to fight in an arena combat elimination tournament.
Offered as dry, oiled, wonderlubed, or premium lubed on select sizes. But, when i decided to hunt elk with a muzzeloader, i decided to switch to a 54 because i heard a lot of stories about hit and lost animals with the 50. Precision made from special tightly woven cotton, to insure uniformity. My problem was being able to seat the patch ball combo down the barrel. I was reminded of this fact last month when i used an original.
However, transdermal patches and vaginal rings have been found to. Patched round ball can very accurate, just as accurate as conicals, sabots and more accurate, at least in my experience than minie balls. Beginning from the early 14th century, it was the heaviest to destroy fortifications, and the through the years, the ball for smaller and lighter to have better aim and shoot further distance. The patching material is the key to be accurate with a round ball load.
I have been reading that some people have success in shooting a patched round ball out of a faster twist barrel and am just looking for any insights that the arfcom community might be able to provide. France, seed from montpellier bot gard grown in toulouse bot gard, 17 sept. Not much has been written recently about the effectiveness of roundball loads on deer and larger game. For your round ball needs these 100% lead casted round balls come in. Early on, i never had much luck with plasticpatched round ball which my kentucky shooting friends were using, so i went exclusively to maxis since 81. If i had reamed one of them too large, i would have painted the inside of. With these loading blocks the shooter can carry six patched round balls ready to load. So, i wrapped some sand paper around a socket and sanded out the insides of the holes until a patched round ball would push in with moderate pressure and would not tear the patch. I listened to a man who was less than impressed with round balls from a muzzle loader and was of the opinion one must use maxiballs for deer. Using readly available patches and balls the only combo that would work was. However, minie balls are a bit more messy since the skirt grooves need to be greased. So, im about to start shooting muzzle loader for the first time and am wondering what size patch i need to get for my. How would someone paper patch a round ball for a bolt action rifle. Using a drill slightly too small, i drilled the 10 holes, then carefully reamed them with a rattail file until a patched round ball fit snugly inside.
Of the larger bore round ball rifles suitable for taking big game, more have probably been sold in this caliber than any other. Useful advice on calibers, loads for hunting with muzzleloaders. While thats not exactly 100percent correct, the number of shooters and hunters who still do has been in a serious downward spiral for most of the past. This ballistics calculator is a computer simulation which analyzes the behavior of a round ball in its flight from the muzzle to the target. Precision shooting patches for round ball track of the wolf. A good patch is made of good quality, dense natural material. Thanks so much for watching and for all the support. Battlebots is an american robot combat television series. Comedy centrals first season premiered on august 23, 2000.
In other cases, the bullet may be slightly bigger than the bore, again with the idea that chambering it slices off a. In flow meters with a ball, rather than a bobbin right, the reading is taken from. Made of hard maple, it is drilled with six holes, to snugly hold your lubricated patched round balls. If you do use ball try different thicknesses of patches. Patched round balls prb registered users do not see the above ad.
The local walmart and the local gun shop both carry. The mass of the cannonball can range from 1kilogram to 300 kilograms depending on the era it was in and what it was used for. You can buy good quality patches in your local blackpowder shop, but you can also make your own. How in the world did some of our countrys patriots, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, make reliable head and chest shots on british officers at 200 to 300 yards using patched ball rifles, thus, cutting the snakes head off, as it were. Both of the rifling twists rates you mention are for conical bullets. And thats exactly the load i set out to use for taking the fallow buck shown in. Last year i had some problems with various bp rifles i use when shooting prbs. The hullbots mind module was only a tiny addition to the bots mass, so it. The popped grain is eaten plain or in balls made with honey or syrup. Well newtons 2nd law of motion tells us that force mass x acceleration. I have the hots to play with roundball loads in 4570.
Like a roomba for the range, the ball picker is an autonomous robot that scoots around sucking up golf balls and returning them to a ball dispenser to be teed up again. For tools it added a small electric prod, a grabber arm, and a cutting blade. Didnt try round balls but i have found that the size of the minnies is very important for accuracy with. I then penciled 10 xs exactly 12 apart along a flattened side. The 201920 coronavirus pandemic of covid19 has resulted in conspiracy theories and misinformation regarding its origin, scale, and the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease. Precision shooting patches for round ball precision shooting patches. How high does the small ball rise after the collision.
The problem you are going to have is that the rate of twist in your rifle is too fast for patched rb accuracy at hunting velocities. Key to help identify the two species of phragmidium on rosa in brazil. I have killed with 425grn lead conicals but nothing with a. A greased patched round ball will have an interference fit and need to be rammed. Any other versions of bots with more mass are similar to this extention, theyre.
Hunting with a patched round ball is not a problem. Loading blocks for patched round balls track of the wolf. Now im not sure if the patch gets spun off the ball or if patch and ball just skims the rifling but either way a round ball wont shoot for squat out of a fast twist barrel unless you cut the powder down to an absolute minimum which makes it impractical for most purposes. Small differences in the sensitivity of stomatal conductance to light.
I am working on finding the most accurate minnies for a cut down 63 springfield of mine i am going to use deer hunting. For five seasons, battlebots aired on the american comedy central and was hosted by bil dwyer, sean salisbury, and tim green. Reconsideration of the risk of overweight and target body mass index bmi in hypertension. Bots battle for the ball, and the globe, in robot olympiad 11 november 2017 the world robotics olympiad, being held in costa rica this weekend, shows human athletes still. If it has a slow twist rate, itll probably like patched round ball more. Loading blocks for patched round balls this is a primitive riflemans ball loading block, shaped like a miniature bread board. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. In this case the force is effectively the weight and the acceleration is the pull of gravity on the body. A minie should easily drop into the barrel, with just a nudge from a ramrod. Given the large mass to patched area ratio, i would expect these to have a speed limit perhaps no more than 1500 fps or so.
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