Range Report: Pietta Smith Carbine

[PaultheWall]

Have not posted in a long time. Got out to the range this morning to shoot my Pietta Smith Carbine. Shot 25 shots seated at 50 yards and 25 shots seated at 100 yards. Every shot except for one was on paper. I used 29 grains of Goex 2f in a plastic cartridge with a .515 lubed smith bullet.

I have not shot the Smith in several months, so I was pleased with the results. Always good to spend time at the range!

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[bedbugbilly]

Sounds like you had fun! Many, many years ago, I had a friend (we shot N-SSA) who had an original Smith. That was a fun little carbine to shoot.

In the 1980s, I participated in a long range rifled musket shoot up at Camp Grayling (MI). We used the 1,000 meter machine gun range with 2" X 4" knock down/pop up targets . . . spaced at 100 meter spacings. One of the guys on the team I shot with and a Smith report (I believe it was one of the ones that Mike Yeck made many years ago). He brought it along just to see what it would do. I don't know what his charges were but at the 100 meter target, he did pretty well. 200 meter . . so so and the 300 meter, pure blind luck if he hit it. And he was an excellent shot with a rifled musket. It was fairly new to him and I'm sure that with playing with charges, bullet fit to bore, etc. he would improve on the results he had.

The Smith is an interesting design and has got to be a lot of fun to shoot! Glad you're enjoying yours and I hope you'll post on how you are doing with it. Enjoy!