Long range shooting with muzzle loading rifles - a step by step guide

[@capandball]

Please ask your questions under this comment so I can answer them in a later Q&A video.

[@Mr_Fancypants]

What would be a brand of/or gun you recomend for starters that is affordable but good?

[@niclbicl]

Your favourite gun you own?

[@loupuleff571]

I spoke with Lee Shavers this morning he speaks very highly of you my friend which is no surprise. I wish I could have been able to see the shoot and especially the dinner at your house would have been even better, Hungary is one place I would love to visit the President there is great you are very lucky to have him ! I am going to start looking for a rifle if I can't convince Lee to build one for me and hope to start shooting these matches soon. I shoot long range but with a sharps cartridge rifle so I have to find the correct type of rifle for this type of shooting. Ok keep the great videos coming !

[@capandball]

@@loupuleff571 Lee makes one of the finest rifles for this sports. He is in fact a living legend. :) His Ferris rifles are just excellent. If his production capacity is limited, go for a Pedersoli Gibbs. With a little fine tuning it will make an excellent long range rifle.

[@ghostcodm6027]

Test a rifled projectile in a non-rayed weapon

[@berryrohseberryrohse8392]

Your scholarly approach to the sport is an inspiration. Thank you for everything that you do for the community.

[@capandball]

Dear Berry, many thanks for the good words and the support. I really appreciate it!

[@davidfranklin1885]

Your coverage of these events is most delightful! I deeply appreciate your friendly but accurate and detailed description of these black powder events. Thank You! Dave in USA

[@bobhill3941]

I was going to say something but you articulated my feelings perfectly.

[@fulkyallgloogluee1834]

Absolutely love and appreciate all your truely incredible content keep up the fantastic work

[@glockerbob]

Really dig your videos. Beautiful guns beautiful country and your knowledge is quite expansive.

[@karsonbranham3900]

Such a wonderful event and excellent job of bringing it to us who could not attend in person! Hats off to you, Capandball, for your award achievements, truly, while performing host duties and competing, placing as well as you did speaks much to your detailed attention to your well refined discipline as a fine marksman! Congratulations to all! I really love how events like this tear down walls of division and bring us all together, no matter from where we hail!

[@capandball]

That's why I love the familiar atmosphere of long range shooting. As we all act in squads, you have to communicate to shooters of other nations. They will actually help you to get on target before the first hit. A beautiful camaraderie I saw this week!

[@holderfreak6053]

Ein fantastisches Video über ein internationalen schwarzpulver Wettkampf ich bin begeistert Viele Grüße aus Deutschland

[@Servock]

Interesting thing about one of the starting team in this competition: from my knowladge: those are the people who started to use soft cheating style like: mixing black powder with nitro powder to get more straight trajectory of the bullet. It's thanks to them judeges started to verify what kind of powder participants are shooting with. Ofc i can't tell whitch representation I'm talikng about but black powder shooters should know :) Never the less: great video :)

[@jakeroberts7435]

What a great video, and Hungary should receive a warm thanks from the United States for the help sent to the residents of Lahaina, the portable housing units. Thank you

[@ProSimex84]

When are we going to get a Hungarian brutality match?

[@capandball]

I thought about this already, It's not far from my thinking.

[@idarolaflsvik9230]

Thanks Nemeth ! I have been looking forward to a new program on my favorite channel! Your channel! Will save it for tonight and settle into a good chair with a goood drink. Greetings from Idar Ola, Norway 🤠🖐

[@marksmallman4572]

comprehensive and beautifully explained, I wish that I could speak Hunglish, unfortunately I only speak Engish....

[@capandball]

Learning Hunglish is quite easy: start with perfectly learning Oxford English pronunciation. Then start to forget quickly. When you arrive to 50%, you'll speak Hunglish. A good amount of pálinka speeds up the project. :)

[@scottfoster9452]

What a fantastic presentation of a fantastic international shooting compatition. I love how these sorts of international events bring like minded shooters together from across the planet to compet to determine who is the best shooter on the day. My deep and sicerist congratulations to all who worked to make this wonderful competition happen.👍

[@scottrobinson3281]

Congratulations to Pieter Truter and Corena De Beer. Proudly Durbanville Shooting Club!

[@joearledge]

Please do more of these muzzle loader precision/ long range educational videos!!! There has only been 1 other person that I have seen doing educational videos on the subject, and that was "Idaho Lewis", an American YT channel, who did precision and long range muzzle loading (not in competitions). Most of his videos disappeared, which is sad because he was a good teacher. Some of them are still on YT, but he hasn't made any in a few years. I love all of your content but these educational ones are especially valuable to the community because people can go out and try it. Thanks, Respectfully, Joe

[@Mr_Fancypants]

So your telling me a muzzle loader is the perfect assasin weapon? No cases, no serial number, long range and affordable?

[@michaelsewell3706]

Great to see South Africa 🇿🇦 representatives, thankyou Capandball for this great video. Keep up the good work.

[@sangomasmith]

Always good to see some of our fellow countrymen there. I wonder if this was the BPSU?

[@iduswelton9567]

Ive never tried to shoot a black powder rifle at any distance - only modern rifles - tho the rifle i used to make my longest shot while serving in the Marines ( 1968 ) was a weapon made in 1941 Germany @ 1256meters was a Mauser 11.5mm Anti-material rifle - and yes its not a sniper weapon - but i was shooting at a car 😏

[@wrxs1781]

Great video, I enjoyed it immensely.

[@MySixSensesGamertag]

Thank you for the content. Truly one of the greatest challenges possible among marksman and you got a silver while holding an event. Bravo

[@favne8345]

Very cool! But what I don’t understand is why use modern aids like shooting jackets? I mean when you use black powder it’s for the historical purpose right? Might as well use modern gunpowder? To me it would be like going on a roadtrip with a 100 year old car in gore tex clothing, smart phone and a gps..

[@capandball]

Why we use the plastic jackets? Well the answer is simple: because the original style leather shooting jackets are way too expensive.

[@favne8345]

@@capandball I understand, they are expensive for sure! Greetings from Norway by the way, looking forward to the Krag Jørgensen video and hope you get a hold of a norwegian Kammerloader too in the future I have build a replica of the Kongsberg M1829 flintlock musket and the M1818 flintlock pistol, both copies of the swedish M1815 and M1807, excellent high quality late flintlocks!

[@johnnyholland8765]

If I am not mistaken the gentleman wearing the hat on the USA team is Dave Gullo who owns Buffalo arms here in the US. This business caters to the black powder community. He is a fine shot who can afford the best of whatever he wants or needs. I am 65 years old and I have never left the country and you hear of so many bad things and bad people in other places but seeing this video and the people tells me there are good places and moreover good hospitable people in them. If I ever did go somewhere overseas I think Hungary would be the place to visit...

[@christophermccormick2714]

Great video! Very informative and comprehensive! Thanks!

[@1248dl]

Well done! To the competitors To the organizers To the supporters And, of course, to you, my friend for another excellent presentation

[@jonathansongco4302]

Awesome!

[@niclbicl]

Beautiful representation of the event! Really good video thank you. Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹❤️🇭🇺 would love to visit one of the Events someday or just start long range muzzleloading shooting myself (:

[@capandball]

We'll have a friendly mid range match sometime this fall. We'll be happy to see you there.

[@William_Bryant]

A man with a Whitworth fears no crosswind.

[@capandball]

Well said! I need one for sure! :)

[@KilalaFW]

​@capandball who makes a whitworth that would qualify for this competition?

[@capandball]

@@KilalaFW Pedersoli Whitworth is a good choice

[@KilalaFW]

@capandball Next question, I've heard getting the original pattern bullet molds is quite hard. Do you have any suggestions for that?

[@657449]

Years ago someone made a copy and a mold of the original bullet.

[@danhubert-hx4ss]

Very informative and interesting vid. THX awfully.

[@lukelee8934]

Its disappointing to hear that you don't have civilian ranges with that kind of distances in your country. Every country should promote civilian markmanship programs and have an armed populace. Ukraine is a prime example of why this is important

[@deletdis6173]

Amen

[@ryuhadouken2722]

You also have to understand the US is the only country in the world that has a recognizable list of rights that limits the government of what it can do to firearms. Many countries you simply just can’t own a firearm at all. Some countries even with a regulation and license you can’t even use it for self defense perfect country of this example is South Korea and Germany. You can own firearms by very strict regulations and license. If you ever used it in self defense your more in trouble than the knife wielding home invader. Unfortunately the US is slowly pushing towards the European ideology like this because we forgot why we broke away from them in the first place.

[@Batstard556]

Also, Europe is *considerably* smaller than the United States, Britain alone would fit inside texas

[@brianaimar3124]

be careful my friend using still wool , i use it with jack (dishes cleaner white abrasive) to dress my barrels after a built the rifle , to much use will wear the land of it , but in a competition will do it in a hurry

[@capandball]

Yes we don't clean it with steel wool everyday. It is not part of the standard process.

[@richardthomashaydon]

Balazs, many thanks, once again, for all the interesting content you post. Thanks Richard in RSA.

[@craigpennington1251]

Outstanding video with correct information. A great useful teaching & learning video. Would be cool to attend one of these as a spectator. Thanks for posting this great event.

[@jeffe.9904]

Hey Cap, thanks for the video I truly enjoyed it! BTW, I know you like The Pedersoli Gibbs rifles, who doesn't 😂, but what are some other good aftermarket rfles (In Your Opinion) if you cannot find a Pedersoli Gibbs?

[@proudwhitesettler7746]

Great vid Capandball. Long live the Magyars, a great people and a great nation. Raising glass of mead; Skal, salud, and mud in your eye.

[@xzqzq]

I remember seeing a Civil War ' sniper rifle ' at the Smithsonian.... under-hammer, false muzzle, brass telescope sight, 50 lbs.... hoping to see something similar on your channel.

[@all1395]

Big fan sar Watching watching Tu video India❤❤❤❤❤🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@khester7397]

This is excellent! Great job, team Hungary! You're a talented film maker, Cap and Ball. Very interesting, informative and entertaining.

[@capandball]

Thanks for the good words, but I am an amateur enthusiast, nothing more.

[@rayweir9903]

Thank you for your exsplaination of the game , fantastic job setting this up

[@roseybut]

Fantastic! Thank you very much for sharing. Congratulations and well done on winning your medals.

[@HS-su3cf]

Great video. A very interesting sport.

[@mikes4564]

I noticed there were no young shooters there. One must need patient maturity for such competition. This would be very cool to participate in. Its probably a good thing I'm broke, LOL.

[@capandball]

There were two youngsters in the Swiss team, but you are right. Muzzle loading is usually a sport for 40+ people. A few years ago if I checked the audience of my channel, most of the people were 40+. However a few years ago it started to change. There increasing number of 20-30+ viewers, and now there are more under 40s than 40+. So the interest is there for sure, but the young ones has to calm down for sure.

[@Hammerli280]

It’s a cost issue. Traveling intercontinental with firearms is not cheap.

[@capandball]

@@Hammerli280 this is true. and black powder shooting receives very little support. not like Olympic sports...

[@janci9047]

Not really a cost issue.. I'm 24 and I'm shooting mostly regional muzzle loader competitions in Slovakia and I have seen maybe like 3-4 shooters younger than let's say 50..I'd say younger guys want to shoot more and not to mess with powder charges and pouring lead rounds etc. I understand it but once you try muzzleloading you can't stop..

[@ericd.7592]

Very interesting video on this event well organised, a lot of helpful advices. So thank you very much ! A gentlemen’s sport 👍 Greetings from a new French muzzleloader 🇫🇷

[@josesantelices8138]

Desde Chile muchos cariños para los Deportistas que participaron en una interesante disciplina de Tiro❤❤😊😊😊

[@j.shorter4716]

Very excited to see this! Thank you for this wonderful video!

[@willemdebeer8628]

South Africa was the world long range champions in Muzzle and Breech loading. I held the 300-500 and 600m world record for 10 years. 300m 46.4/50 500m 46.4/50 and agrigate 130/150 lots to learn in this game.

[@jeffe.9904]

Hey Cap, I just wanted to give you another update 1 day later 😂. After watching your video yesterday and thinking about a Pedersoli Gibbs for some time now, I bought one yesterday! Thanks for the inspiration!. 👌

[@capandball]

A very good choice indeed!

[@artimashchambugong2490]

Nice❤ from India👍

[@davidbelzer]

So cool to this style of competition

[@Bayan1905]

I've been reading up on the different units and the variety of different guns used during the American Civil War on both sides and how the troops used them. Even here in the US, if you were to ask most could only tell you about the Whitworth and the Berdan Sharps rifles, but there were so many more different guns that were issued or even privately purchased. The 66th Illinois, known as Birge's Western Sharpshooters, were equipped with Horace Dimick plains rifles, very similar to Hawken rifles and some Hawkens were even purchased for the 66th Illinois apparently. The Confederate Sharpshooter Sergeant Berry Benson used a two band Enfield (late in the war he ended up with a Spencer), and then Confederate sniper Jack Hinson used a Tennessee gunsmith built .50 rifle that was somewhat like a Kentucky rifle with only fairly simple sights but the gun weighed some 13 pounds and proceeded to take out Union troops on transport boats on the Tennessee river at 300 yards from the bluff he was shooting from. It amazed me at how well those Sharpshooters could deliver accurate fire at long range with the sights they had. The only one who seemed to really know to get the best open sights available was Horace Dimick. He supplied 1,000 rifles to the 66th Illinois Sharpshooters, but he couldn't meet the contract with his own guns, so he bought plains rifles from gun makers all around St. Louis, which included Hawken rifles. What Dimick did was to put on every one of the rifles he supplied to the regiment a Sharps flip up rear sight that sighted in at 200 yards. Even now to this day I hear from so many who think that you need a scoped inline muzzleloader to shoot accurately past 150-200 yards. With the right bullet and powder charge, one can be amazed at the accuracy even a somewhat "primitive" gun can achieve. Even my lowly CVA Mountain Rifle, pretty much the bottom end of muzzleloaders when it came to cost and really quality has shocked me at the accuracy I can get out of it with nothing more than the old T/C Maxi bullets and 60 grains of Goex FFG.

[@allanmcdonald3223]

Thank you for your dedication to your chosen sport and black powder shooting as a whole. I have experienced a similar level of stress being the organiser and shooter for a high level event. It is definitely not easy. Your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Keep up the good work on your channel and enjoy your shooting.

[@siamakaghazeinali]

hi i saw documentry about hounting l using long-barreled muzzle loading rifles and adjusting the muzzle with their feet ! because the rifle was to heavy. they shoot and hunt goat at least 1 kilometer away from side to side vally. the barrel was around 2 matter long . do you know about this type of hunting?

[@briankerr4512]

No no no ... your not allowed modern shooting jackets and equipment ... with black power guns ... just doesn't look right

[@markworden9169]

Good times.

[@walidqaissi9292]

I was an individual of the former Iraqi army .... the Hungarians AK 47m was the best ..... just like Russians and Polish and may be best

[@blueband8114]

Fantastic, and informative video Cheers.

[@TerryWhitenight]

Congratulations!!

[@Lemur70]

Awesome video. Thank you so very much. I learn very much from your channel. I get to occasionally play with my muzzleloaders. Wish I had more time for them. I enjoy my flintlock more than my centerfires. You help keep me enthused. Thank you again.

[@richardbest6588]

What a wonderful video. A huge undertaking to stage this event... admirable! I don't shoot muzzle loaders myself, but if you're back next year I'd love to be a volunteer helper/steward/coffee maker just to participate from the sidelines and to watch and learn about muzzle loading...

[@capandball]

We surely have place for good people! :)

[@levisweet979]

Freind, I also asked the channel everything black powder the question, is it feasible to mine and make your own black powder components, and to make a functional black powder in a bush c raft, survival situation?

[@naroddyzmow5356]

no polish shooters?

[@missingthe80s58]

Yep #0000 steel wool works perfectly fine over ticking patching for lead removal. I don't fool around with anything else. There is no more effective or bore safe method.

[@capandball]

I agree! That's the easiest and safest way. Much better than any solvents.

[@63Muddly]

Small thing, but the sound of the outgoing rounds is otherworldly. Never heard anything like it short of artillery.

[@brianaimar3124]

always your vid are extents , may buenos e informativos

[@kirkboswell2575]

👍 Thanks for the summary!!!

[@davidwilliamson4530]

Dear sir, thank you so very much for this content. As for me i have been shooting black powder since 1977, some days on the range you feel that nothing can touch you, and other days you think why do i even bother with this, however you always learn about yourself or the rifle. I have always cast my own bullets and i think this helps to understand. I like you comment about the shooting being like shooting a mortar. I worked in a foundry for ten years and made my own coehorn mortar that fires a 355mil/12oz can of beer filled with concrete 1.2 kms over 1.500 grains of 2f powder. And YES it`s very LOUD. Kind Regards to all of you. loved all of your hunting videos on pigs and fellow deer.

[@capandball]

A Coehorn? I always admired the NSSA competitions, especially the cannon and mortar shooting. There's nothing like that,.

[@davidwilliamson4530]

Yes, coehorn mortar is correct. Invented by a Dutch military engineer, Menno van Coehorn back in the day.

[@NORTH_CAROLINA_REAPER]

This is how I felt when I hit the stump of the tree I was aiming at with my sling from about 40-50 yards away.

[@funlegomathteachathome1256]

Blessings. Go truckers and railway workers. Cleveland

[@briangilmore2256]

The .45 Spain made rifle at the pawn shop near me is looking more tempting.

[@mikeks8181]

What an Awesome Job You All Did!

[@jensfritz63]

Great video on a fantastic event - very inspiring, too. Danke!

[@jackmrozinski337]

Thank you.

[@lionelbowhunter468]

One word: Amazing! Thx a lot! Greetings from France :)

[@guaporeturns9472]

Expect Clark Griswold to join in the dance at any moment

[@jameswhite465]

Thanks for the information .stay safe

[@johnmarkus9456]

Watched you video on treking. You region of Spain looks like western Pennsylvania in the U.S.A. Do you ever get temps of 38 below Celsius there? Used to have an 94 Winchester in 30-30, shot moa. Had a Remington 700 bdl in 30-06, shot 1/2 moa. Now I'm shooting black powder for fun. God, I miss hunting.

[@capandball]

Hi, this is Hungary. And yes, we get below 38C. Col winters are below -10-15 C.

[@BlackPowderTherapist]

Where can I find the sling you used

[@Tammy-un3ql]

👌👌👍👍

[@ElChris816]

Wow, this looked like a lot of fun, and everyone seemed pleased by the challenges put before them. What strikes me is the sense of community and comradery by everyone there. Congratulations to all involved.

[@tacfoley4443]

Another milestone article from the incredibly talented Mr capandball - and a huge thank you from another, far less talented, shooter of muzzleloading rifles.

[@jimgronning9605]

Fantastic! Thank You

[@657449]

Consistency and trial and error is a lot of work. It pays off at long range. Give these shooters a lot of credit for relearning the ancient skill of muzzle loading using modern components.

[@657449]

Great video as usual. Always practice on bad days so you can work out a system to beat the weather. When the scores are close, you need all the learned skills to win.

[@ericstefanelli3423]

One of the best shooting video i've ever seen !Thank You, you given to me the love of Long range shooting !

[@stefankonig2426]

Danke!

[@capandball]

Many thanks for your support, I really appreciate it!

[@robtramp1165]

Super cool ❤

[@ГеоргичКоржев]

БРАВО ! БРАВО ! БРАВООО ! ! ! ♥️

[@RajkumarRajkumar-s6n]

Very nice

[@silentseawolf]

I enjoyed this very much.

[@gunslinger4203]

Thanks!

[@capandball]

Dear Sir, Many thanks for your support! That's a great help!

[@kornelorszagh3689]

Felemelő érzés,hogy ott lehettem veletek!

[@capandball]

:) az volt bizony.

[@18Maart1915Gallipoli]

The grandchildren of Atilla the Hun ; ) Right on ! Good shooting : )