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April 6th, 2015, 02:36 PM
#1
The 1800 Pattern Baker Rifle: Shooting at 200yds
Nice to see an old patch and ball shooting out that far....
I have to get me a pair of those Mil Pattern shorts for the range..LOl...
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April 6th, 2015 02:36 PM
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April 6th, 2015, 06:34 PM
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Has too much time on their hands
Not such great grouping but it sure would have irritated the French while they were coming into range of the Redcoats and their Brown Bess muskets.
Mike, have you read the Richard Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell (featuring the Baker rifle)
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April 6th, 2015, 06:52 PM
#3
Yea the 'historical' claims of accuracy with the Baker sound like the Historical claims of some of the deer killed at my Hunt Camp 
Originally Posted by
GoldenLakePete
Mike, have you read the Richard Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell (featuring the Baker rifle)
I've never read the books, but I vaguely remember watching a few episodes of the TV series called 'Sharpe' when I was in West Germany and we got British TV. It was good but I forgot all about it till you mentioned it. I'll have to put them on my 'To Read' list, they sound good.
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April 7th, 2015, 04:27 AM
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Hey Pete..I did some looking around and I see they have some of the "Richard Sharpes" TV series on Youtube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sVhVVTqnVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr-KeDrOsHY
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April 7th, 2015, 05:20 PM
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Has too much time on their hands
The books are SO much better than the TV shows. No comparison! I think they had a budget of $1.98 for the shows.
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April 7th, 2015, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by
GoldenLakePete
I think they had a budget of $1.98 for the shows.
They do have that 'Canadian' TV look to them...something else we inherited from the Monarchy ..LOL...
I was thinking about his 200 yd grouping with that Baker.....the reality is, that even 22" x 12" grouping (with open sights no less) is still a center of mass shot for a soldier. Four of those shots would have killed/maimed an opponent.
Pretty good for a patch and ball.
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April 7th, 2015, 05:42 PM
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Has too much time on their hands
The tactics of the Rifle Regiment was to act as skirmishers- to harass the French column and to pick off officers. Even a a greater range than 200 yds you could lob one of those big .62 cal lead balls into the mass of the column and hit one or more French soldats.
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