Bradford Central Rifle Club
BLACK POWDER PISTOL
This is an event that takes place the first Wednesday of the month, it is a fun event rather than a competition but obviously everyone wants to be the best.
The club has it's own pistol which is classed as a muzzle loader, it requires a percussion cap, black powder(Gunpowder) wadding & lead shot.
This is a noisy & fun evening & it is our intention to do this on a second night in the month due to it's popularity.
This is now one of the few permitted forms of pistol shooting in the UK. Muzzle Loading Pistols are potentially as accurate as their modern counterparts though their rate of fire is much slower. Shooting may be conducted with original period pistols or with modern replicas. Matches may be fired under International Standard conditions at 25 metres with single shot flintlock or percussion pistols (best 10 shots from 13 fired in 30 minutes) or with percussion revolvers in a range of matches, many under the same conditions as previous cartridge pistol matches.

Black powder pistol

Black powder pistol with powder & lead shot