Squirrel the hard way

[S.S.]

With a smoothbore .45 caliber muzzleloader.
makes a neat little scattergun.

[Skunk]

That's doing it the old fashioned way, S.S. Great Job!!

[single action]

Cool ! I hunt squirrel with a tc renegade 56 smoothbore, I will be loading it with a patched round ball for muzzleoading deer season. How did you wind up with a 45 sb? did you bore out a shot out barrel, or is it built that way originally? What is your load for it?

[SQUACKS]

sometimes, i use a .32 cal. caplock pennsylvania rifle that i put together myself from Dixie gun Work parts.

 it shoots a .310 patched round ball pretty accurately.  i use about 30 gr. of 3f GO black powder behind the ball. i also use those wonder lube patches. when using the gun, i load several bullet blocks with patched balls and that makes the loading much quicker!

 Every year during the iron sights contest at the Shawnee Squirrel Hunt (this past Sept. made 8 in a row), i use this rifle. this year i took 2 with it but lost to a feller(Sarge) who was shooting what he called a clackity clack .22. He took 3.

                                                   luck!

 

[S.S.]

This is kind of a strange rifle. it was made in brazil and appears to be pretty
old. A patched .451 roundball fits it perfectly. The load I was using was 30 grains 777
and about the same amount of shot as is in a 2 1/2 inch 410 shell.
I took a wooden dowel and wrapped paper around it and used a glue stick on it
to make a paper tube. I closed one end of the tube slid about 2 inches of it off of the dowel
and cut it off. Filled it with #2 heavy birdshot and then folded the other end of the
tube. This sped up loading time. just drop the 30 grains of powder in and ram the paper
tube of shot in on top of it. Worked great.

describe this clackity clack .22 was it a breech loader?

[SQUACKS]

ss;

 yes. it is a savage 6a & 7  or a stevens 87a & 85.  old 22 auto loaders i think.

[Rock Home Isle]

With a smoothbore .45 caliber muzzleloader.
makes a neat little scattergun.

.45 calibre SMOOTHBORE....Wow, I didn't even know tht such a critter even existed.

That would be an awesome fun way to hunt small game. Very Cool and your load that you use is so slick...very nice.