Loading from the muzzle end

[Durango Flinthart]

I have been invited to an event in Rockport, Indiana at the Lincoln Pioneer Village. This has been a bi-annual event for about five years and covers 1816 -1865, the time from when Lincoln came to Indiana until his death. This year they are having a live fire match. The only requirements for firearms is "muzzle-loading of the encompassing time period."
I know most of the hombres I'll be shooting with, so most will take it with grin when I load my Henry in .45colt from the muzzle end.        

Watch your topknot,
Durango

[Major 2]

you could use one of Driftwood Johnson's spacer sticks ...it's a type of Ramrod ! 


if walks like duck...... quacks like a duck... well it must be .....

[Junkman]

I'd say you would not be in the spirit of the rules there pardner!

[Durango Flinthart]

To use the term "match" is most likely a misnomer, it is more of a public display. After I fire a couple of rounds the other hard cases will be asking to "crank the lever on that contraption." If we were shootin' for score I've got flinters and caplocks to fill the bill, just filling out the established timeline.

Watch your topknot,

Durango
 

[Major 2]

I'd say you would not be in the spirit of the rules there pardner!

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[FriscoCounty]

Just remember to keep a strict eye out for thems that tries to sneak in an 1858 or 1863 Sharps - they be breach loaders!

[litl rooster]

If you go by the Fish Wildlife and Parks and Inland Fishy Game book. It loads from the muzzel and only capable of firing a single shot................................  At a time

[Durango Flinthart]

Most likely a Spencer will show up also, and they load from wrong end completely

[Rebel Dave]

Why oh why would you want to load a breach loader from the muzzle,??. All it will most likley do is at the least make a mess in the breach. You will probably get powder where you don't want it also, like in the action, and that you don't need. I wouldn't do it.

Rebel Dave 

[Junkman]

Dave,

I don't think you are getting the jist of this. He wants to shoot a Henry. The cartridges go into the magazine from the muzzle end if the rifle (not truly in the muzzle).

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Years ago in Alberta, some guys made turned "breech-pieces" to fit single shot shotguns to use in ML shotgun sidematches.  Capped with a 209 pimer and loaded from the muzzle. They worked well, until the killjoys said they were not PC!

Fit a reprimed fired case in the chamber & lower the hammer to 1/2 cock, and load it like a muzzleloader.  Never tried it, but I'll bet it will get lead on target.

[matt45]

I remember watching a schuzen fest one time, and there were a couple of guys loading the bullets from the front on their ballards and sharps- they said it minimized bullet base deformation.
     So all you're doing is just minimizing bullet deformation

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I remember watching a schuzen fest one time, and there were a couple of guys loading the bullets from the front on their ballards and sharps- they said it minimized bullet base deformation.
    So all you're doing is just minimizing bullet deformation

There were some very fancy false muzzles and paper patching systems.

http://riflemansjournal.blogspot.ca/2011/04/history-directions-for-handling-pope.html

 Accuracy was not exceeded until the post WWII bench rest crowd got busy.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I'd say you would not be in the spirit of the rules there pardner!

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Why oh why would you want to load a breach loader from the muzzle,??. All it will most likely do is at the least make a mess in the breach. You will probably get powder where you don't want it also, like in the action, and that you don't need. I wouldn't do it.

Rebel Dave 

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It's fer grins'n'giggles!


WHY?


Why does a dog lick his ... Oh, never mind!


Because he CAN!

Durango F., have fun!