Percussion caps, types of nipples and shooting the Gibbs. Sight elevations.
Percussion caps, types of nipples and shooting the Gibbs. Sight elevations.
Cleaning and loading the rifle for best accuracy. Powders and charges.
The .45 cal. Gibbs has rifling with an 18:1 twist rate. Long heavy bullets which have performed well in .45 cal. cartridge rifles will usually work equally well in the Gibbs so if you already have such bullet moulds or commercial bullets (swaged or cast) which can make bullets .448″ to .451″ diameter give them a try and see if your Gibbs likes them.
Thanks to the late Dick Trenk (Pedersoli, USA) for permission to publish these special instructions packed with new Pedersoli Gibbs rifles after late 2006.
A brief note on the importance of record keeping, consistent support position and butt plate position
Shooters need to develop a consistent way of loading the rifle. Here Bill Roberts offers different ways of loading and considers their merits.
The beginning long-range muzzle loader shooter will soon learn that the single most important element in obtaining accuracy is consistency. If everything is the same with every shot there is no reason that all rounds should not go through the same hole. Of course this is humanly, mechanically, and meteorologically impossible, but the shooter can try his or her best to achieve the ideal.
