Warthogs...You'll Like This.

[Percussion Pete]

Shot a stage at the Arkansas Leadslingers last year with no breeze, Extra high humidity into the rising sun. Started with rifle fully stoked 44/40 , fired first shot-put rifle down. Picked up rifle, fired second shot-put rifle down. Looked at the target array, made a guess at where to shoot through the smoke and shot the rest at normal speed(slow). Surprisingly I think I got all but 1.
The moral of the story is "Pete, be careful what you wish for".

No interest in winning. My goal is to put on a show. 

[Jed Cooper]

The YEE-HAW factor is always the best part of a a shoot for me! The fear of ground fires is killing our shoot this month though. We can't take a chance of embers flaring up after we leave. First time I've seen our sport endanger any thing but those nasty steel bad guys. Hope things are better for the next shoot.     Jed

[Seamus]

I reckon this video illustrates just exactly why folks reading this forum like their real authentic BP!  Compare this to someone sootin' a 20 second stage with a mouse fart .38.  That can be great too but who is really having more fun?

[Percussion Pete]

I reckon this video illustrates just exactly why folks reading this forum like their real authentic BP!  Compare this to someone sootin' a 20 second stage with a mouse fart .38.  That can be great too but who is really having more fun?

We are.

Smoke rules! 

[Drayton Calhoun]

I remember a rendevouz I went to several years ago. High humidity and no wind. Each shot you could see the tiny streamers of smoke from grains of powder burning exiting the muzzle. The smoking patches were cool too.

[Short Knife Johnson]

I've seen it where the bullet's wake is visible in the smoke.  There is footage of me shooting in a light mist with little wind.  Twas pretty comical.  The stinky fog just keeps rolling out there, encroaching on the targets and eventually enveloping them completely.   

[Percussion Pete]

Stinky fog!!

It would have smelled wonderful to me. 

[Fiddler Green]

Imagine 3 or 4 thousand soldiers on a battlefield all shooting at the same time and the officers trying to maintain some semblance of control.

Read the first chapter of "Warfare In the age of Bonaparte". You'll get an interesting perspective on what they learned about mass firing leading up to and during the "Napoleonic Wars".

[Short Knife Johnson]

Stinky fog!!

It would have smelled wonderful to me. 

It does.  I just got in from making stinky fog, but the wind took it away.

[Bryan Austin]

The shooter is Lolo.  He shoots .45Colt.  The feller in the big Mexican hat is Sawyer, he's my brother.  This was filmed by Lolo's wife, Silent, at Ambush at Cavern Cove, one of the best state matches you can go to, back aroun 2000 or '01. 

Unfortunately, I don't get to go this year.

Any idea of his loads (full/light), brand powder used etc?

[Percussion Pete]

I'm thinking they weren 't light loads.

[Drayton Calhoun]

Now, think about a pitched gunbattle in a crowded frontier saloon...a wonder more innocent bystanders weren't killed.

[Drayton Calhoun]

I love the smell of black powder in the morning!

Sir Charles, I like your quote, I too have paraphrased it..."Those who do not learn from history are forever cursed to get their butts kicked by those who have..."