Scout Camp Common Man Black Powder Setup

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guys I'm trying to get a shot here Oh buddy of mine he sets right up here I can zoom in for you is right there tell you I'm zoomed in but I'm standing I guarantee you no less than 10 yards probably more like about 7 yards straight Destin's from this red-tailed hawk

there he goes over my head perch himself up there get a little bit higher vantage point but he he's pretty trusting he's been coming down here and collecting my trapline scraps off for the flushing beam and he's kind of become a pet to me he's around everywhere I'm mad if I'm at the cabin he comes there I'm back here in the hunters camp he comes here kind of knows where the where the food trains at but he trusts me not to shoot him even though I'm carrying a gun 99% of the time flying off fair little harp perch

he's gonna investigate that field out there and see if he can find something running around

morning guys Steve camera the Pathfinder school what I thought I'd do today was I had a lot of questions during the advance scout documentary videos about why I only allowed black powder to be carried and questions about you know could you bring a bow and things like that next year we are going to allow people to choose between a bow or a black-powder firearm it had to be a single-shot black-powder firearm and I have my reasons for that and part of that is safety it's very hard to overcharge black-powder when you're doing it on the fly smokeless powder is a whole different ballgame when it comes to getting a charge correctly not blowing up your gun so that's part of the reason the other reason is I want people to get used to the tradition of loading rounds on the fly loading black powder using black powder because I believe it makes your gun very very versatile in this day and age when ammo is at a premium ammo is kind of hard to find a lot of things that you can shoot from a 12-gauge shotgun using black powder are very common so what I want to do is I want to kind of walk you guys through my common man black powder kit for a 12-gauge shotgun and then maybe you'll understand a little bit more about why I'm so hot on this in a 21st century long Hunter series and why I like the 12-gauge single shot shotgun so well stay with me guys okay so let's talk about the firearm itself first this is just a single-shot new england arms and new england firearms Nef single shot 12-gauge break open shotgun doesn't matter if it's an H and R doesn't matter if it's an N EF as a matter if it's stevens any single shot break open shotgun will work good for a black-powder type application with what I'm going to show you today now the important thing is the choke you want a modified choke or cylinder bore choke firearm for this you do not want full choke I've done a video explaining chokes in the past you can look that video up but you want a modified or a cylinder bore choke for black powder application especially if you're planning on shooting round ball and things like that from it so that takes care of the firearm portion of it you can get these things at pawn shops and gun shows for 100 bucks or less easy enough

so now let's discuss for a minute the accoutrements and I've just got again I'm going common man with this stuff this is just the Pathfinder hi verse ACK what I'm going to do is I'm going to lay these things out and then we'll kind of talk about them as we go here a little bit because some of this stuff would be more for a little bit longer term while some of this for the short term but this whole bag even with all this stuff in it weighs almost nothing I mean less than 2 or 3 pounds probably maybe 2 or 3 pounds okay couple more things in here okay now empties out the bag now and I've just got to cut piece of rope attached to this bag for small game loops if I'm out hunting small game whatever the case may be

I can tie a loop in that thing and put that small game leg right through there the head right through there and attach to my bag easy enough to carry about camp instead of having to put it in a pocket and that makes up my shooting bag or my black powder application for the 12-gauge so let's talk about the necessities of what you're going to want for the short term real quick first okay so first things first the first thing you're going to need is you're going to need one of these adapters from short lane arms or from the pathfinder school they're made by gun adapters calm and is a two and nine shotgun primer for 12-gauge shotgun and really what that does is when you shove that into the breach of your 12-gauge and lock it in with the o-rings it turns your single-shot 12-gauge into a muzzle loader at that point because now when you open up the breech you put a 209 shotgun primer which is the other thing you have to have which is what these are these are triple 7 shotgun primers to and on you can buy these things at Walmart for about $7 100 I just keep them in a small cheese eat in any kind of tin will work for that and I keep those in my shooting bag so that is your ignition now instead of putting a 2 a 9 shotgun primer in the back of the shotgun shell you put it into this adapter but I always load that last so once you've got that adapter in there that's the first thing you're going to need is that adapter I always carry two of those

just in case one were to get lost fall out of the gun fouled up somehow that I couldn't shoot it I always try to carry two of these with me and then again I carry a small ten of to a nine shotgun primers in this case I've got about 50 or 60 in this 10 short term if I were going to be a longer term or a longer term camp I would obviously have a resupply at that camp of more but this is more than going to last me for a week of hunting with no problem all right so once we've got that taken care of the next thing that we need to build our shotgun shell as black powder is we're going to need some type of powder and for me you can buy the fanciest powder horn on the planet and they all look really cool most of them are pretty expensive you can buy brass type flasks that will throw certain measures of powder things like that those are really cool too and I've got several of them and they work great but for the common man just a peroxide bottle like this it works fantastic okay and this is just a brown hydrogen peroxide bottle that's filled with pyro Dex RS now for this application and this is the beauty of the 209 shotgun primer is you can shoot black powder substitutes like pyro Dex RS like American frontier all of those types of things that are substitute black powders you can use with a 209 shotgun primer if you're using a cap primer like a cap and ball type primer like you would use for one of the old CV a 50 caliber cap locks or something like that you're going to have to be more powder specific and if you're using a flintlock you're going to be all even more powder specific you're going to have to have a real black powder and you're going to need triple F or better if you're going to see a flintlock for the most part double F will work but triple F you definitely want for the pan so I just always carry all triple F and if you're shooting a cap lock again double or triple F is what you're going to want but it has to be real black powder the beauty of this system is it will shoot any black powder whether it's real black powder or a black powder substitute like pirate xrs that you can buy for $11 a pound versus a 17-2 $20 a pound for real black powder you can see it out of this weapon now the next thing you're going to want is you have to have a measure for that powder real simple common man way to do that I've got a leather lanyard here that's got two tools on

and other than my pocketknife these the only two tools that I need for this gun I have one that is just a piece of copper pipe half-inch diameter that's been measured to hold 60 or I'm sorry that's been measured to hold 100 grains of pyro Dex and has been cut off smashed on the end first with a hole drilled in it pour the powder in there out of a specific measure it holds 100 grains to the top and I chopped it off and sanded and file it off then I drilled a hole in it so I can put it on a lanyard the other thing is just a pick a touch hole pick and that's just a piece of number-9 chopping wire like you would use for a snare stand and the only thing that's really for is to make sure that there's no fouling in the hole in that touch hole where your primer goes so if that gets fouled out with powder you can just shove that in there and remit out and you're good go for the next shot so those two tools are important to have I always keep them right around my neck now once we've got our powder measured from our common man powder horn here and we measure our powder and we've dumped that in we already have our adapter in the gun at that point we're going to need wadding because we need to build a shotgun shell what I generally carry for wadding very common man very cheap you can buy big bags of it for you know probably less than five bucks is regular sheep's wool sheer drive the sheep we sell this on our website and the reason I like this so much is number one it's flame retardant so when you shoot out of the gun it doesn't come out in a big ball of fire and land in the woods somewhere and catch the woods on fire like paper patching materials and things like that might or natural cotton material patches like this is not going to do that the other thing is because of the land line in this it loops a bore a little bit when it goes out and I can also use this to clean my firearm also has trapping applications that you've seen in the modern traffic series so it's a very multifunctional item and you can stuff an absolute ton of it in a bag enough to last you a lot of shots so that's going to go above my powder before I pour in the shot and then again on top of the shot so the next thing I'm going to need once I put this patch in there where this wad in there I'm going to need a ramrod now what I've done in case any cleaning rod for 12 gauge will work this is an antique cleaning rod it's made out of wood and if I'm going to load the gun all I do is screw this thing together and it becomes my ramrod so I've got basically a takedown ramrod for this gun it just needs to be a little longer than the barrel I've got three sections to do it with and then I can also use this as a cleaning implement as well as just a piece of string with a toggle on it to pull sheep's wool through but I've also got a scrub brush in here okay so we've got our powder of wadding in and now we have to put shot down the barrel or a round ball down the barrel depending on we're going to shoot and what I prefer to do in all honesty is I really prefer to carry just another small bottle just like this and that contains my shot and I carry generally number six or number four shot and it's important with these bottles to have the opening fairly small so that when you pour it into your measure you can almost follow it with your fingers to fill that measure up and you're not spilling the stuff all over the place just like that okay I spilled a couple of them there but and you want the same thing with your powder you want that powder to have a small opening on that's why I chose these small opening bottles like the peroxide in the shampoo bottle

now let's talk about why - let's shot because you can also and this is just a bottle this is just an energy drink bottle just one of those sour apple 5-hour energies and what is full of is this full of copper head and normal steel bb's all right now bb's are an absolutely devastating load if you look at the video the documentary that we did on the scout camp from last week you will see that about a 45 pound kayo was killed with a BB load out of a 12 gauge BBS are absolutely devastating to me bb's only have one downfall for versatility sake and that's what I'm all about what this stuff is I'm about the versatility the the problem with the BB is it's always going to be a BB now yes you could make some kind of a wax slug out of the problem if you have the materials to do that but you're not going to melt this down it's a steel BB the advantage you have to shot is I can take shot and if I have a ladle like this one here you just put a stick in and put it over the fire I can pour shot into this ladle and melt it down and if I have a couple of different moulds in my bag and again you're talking more expense but you're talking more versatility and I have a double ought buck shot mold here and I have a 12-gauge round ball mold here so now I have the ability to make buckshot if I want to make a few bucks shots to go out and hunt larger game with or a solid round ball for a 12-gauge if I want to go out and hunt something even bigger like a deer or what have you so I carry a couple molds with me for the longer term and a ladle and I would carry more shot and things like that back at my camp as well I have a funnel and this is just a rubber funnel that you get from the baking section of any store that you can buy baking apparatus is added easily come in packs of three but it works really well for transferring from containers to other containers like powder or shot that works really well for that and then the last thing that I've got is just this ak-47 bottles another one of the ak-47 bottles and this one's got again just virgin olive oil in it and that's what I used to maintain my firearm with so between the cleaning rod the oil and a piece of string with a toggle on it that I can drop down through the bore because it opens up and I can pull that through to clean the gun or I can clean the gun with this I can maintain all the mechanisms with this I clean the black powder out of hot water at camp out of my container the only other thing I really need is a jackknife and I carry this old booster Imperial brand jackknife because it has a screw driver and things like that on it and that's all I need to really disassemble this firearm so I can totally just assemble that firearm take the barrel completely off of it and watch the barrel out all alone away from the gun if that's what I want to do in the creek or whatever as I've done in past videos so these are the accoutrements that you need now short term really if you're just going out hunting for a day or two or whatever the case may be you really could get away with a couple of these five-hour energy drinks bottles you could put one powder and one was shot and that would probably give you a dozen shots then you just need some wadding material you'd also obviously need your ramrod but you could cut a stick and do the same thing with it lots of guys do that the Scout just cut a straight stick and use that for a ramrod all weekend and then you need obviously your powder measure and your touch hold pick you're going to need your caps and you're pretty well set for a couple days of hunting and that's again that's the versatility of this whole black powder situation now yeah you can carry shotgun shells you can carry a number six shot number four shot number two shot buck shot you can carry all of this stuff and then you're fishing around to try to figure out words out and which ones which or you can just load the gun for what you want to hunt with black powder before you go and just deal with that and in an emergency situation I'll tell you now if I had a load of shot in this gun like six shot that I was going to hunt small game with and I saw a deer I'm going to shove ball right down on top of that you have another piece of white on top of it out of the bottom of my bag and boom that's where I'm going with that guys I thank you for joining me for another video today and just one final little thought I want to leave you with is I've had a lot of people request or ask me if they could bring a bow and arrow to the Scout class next year in lieu of the 12-gauge shotgun and I told them yes because that would allow you legally at that point because deer season is open you could actually shoot a deer with that bow and arrow but what I want you to understand is that in reality it would be very very difficult for one person to live completely off of a bow and arrow

in all four seasons in the state of Ohio back in the day when they had nothing but bows and arrows and they were living off bows and arrows they had tribe members hunting together they were driving game to each other they were hunting with lots and lots of bows and arrows not just one person hunting everything for himself if I didn't have a good day today I can go back to camp but somebody else probably did in the Eastern woodlands as thick as the undergrowth is during a spring in summer months you'd be hard-pressed to get an easy shot with a bow and you're going to have to get very very close to game to be able to do that without arrow deflection from the undergrowth with a shotgun or something like that

you have a much better chance of living off that game that's the other reason I'm not really fond of rifles for the long term or even a seasonal type firearm for self-reliance because you're not going to be able to trust in that weapon to be able to get it clear enough shot with a shotgun it's exactly that it's a spring pattern something is going to hit that animal that's the reason I'm so hot on the 12-gauge shotgun hope maybe that explains some of my mentality to you and again everything is environmentally affected so the reason I'm saying 12-gauge is because I live in the Eastern woodlands the undergrowth is very thick especially in the summer and spring like I said and a shotgun is a much more effective weapon it's much more effective at penetrating that undergrowth then any single projectile would be I thank you for joining with this video I thank everything you do for me from a school for my family for my structured affiliate sponsors and friends

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