Black powder for dummies: the secret is out. Tactical icon Clint Smith has a dark side.
Guns Magazine › Vol. 49 Nbr. 3, March 2003
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Black powder for dummies: the secret is out. Tactical icon Clint Smith has a dark side.
"Black Powder is dirty, smelly, smoky and a mess to clean up." My response to that statement...Yes it is! It's also a part of history, accurate, effective and flat fun to shoot. After 30 years of smokeless powder, black nylon, and tactical ninja stuff, the loading and shooting of black powder cartridge rifles is some of the best shooting fun I've had. In all honesty, it wasn't that way in the beginning.
If my first attempts at loading and shooting my 1 Sharps rifle had been a set of golf clubs I would have thrown the whole thing into the lake. It was so bad my wife Heidi cringed at the thought of going to the range to spot for me. Standard statement for the day was "no call" as r...See the full content of this document
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