Quote Originally Posted by Patrick Chadwick View Post
Are you thinking of Lee Enfields? The thread is about Enfield muzzle-loading percussion rifles, on which the front sight is fixed.
Yes. I am talking about the BP Enfield. The man that owned it before me. Was a reenactor. Next day he had a heart attack and died! Left me with no knowledge of how he handled it or shot it.

Contacted a man who makes bullets for a living and he suggested about 8 lead types to try including the Parker Hale type. (Bulletman-Lodgewood.com. Now out of business) I still have most of them except the PH.

Mine is a 2 band Enfield with the rear sight marked on the outside in steps, 1,2,3,4, (yards?) The flip up with a slider is marked 5 through 9.
If I move the slider to the outside 2, the bullets go over the target bank at 100 yards!

After seeing the great help being offered here, I am going to have to take everybodys information back to the firing range and start over. I do not make my own bullets so I may need some help in finding some PH bullets