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  • MIKE WISKEY
    IT'S A PERCISION TARGET MUZZEL LOADING RIFLE. THE 'CHUNK' IS A CHUNK OF WOOD THAT YOU PUT A MARK ON. SET AT A CERTAIN DISTANCE (EVERYONE IN THE MATCH HAS THE SAME DISTANCE), FIRE ONE SHOT, AND THE PERSON CLOSEST TO THE 'MARK' WINS. NO FOULING, RANGING, OR SIGHT IN.
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  • rufe-snow
    One of the target shooting disciplines, is known as "Bench Rest". This is even more difficult, as the rifle is a black powder muzzle loader. Never heard of the term "chunk gun"? Used for any "Bench Rest" rifle.

    "Bench Rest" target shooting is very specialized. Equipment used, can be very expensive. Person who take part in "Bench Rest" matches. Has to have, the patience of job.
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  • swearengine
    The false muzzle is not to aid in cleaning but rather in loading. If you notice, it is rifled also. The muzzle was cut off, pinned, and then rifled along with the barrel so everything matches perfectly.
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  • Hawk Carse
    My recollection (and Googling) is a little different from Mike's.

    I have it that a chunk gun is not shot AT a chunk of wood, it is shot OFF a chunk of wood. Us hillbillies couldn't afford no fancy bench rest, we just shot layin on the ground with the barrel rested over a log, stump, or chunk of wood.

    Target might have been wood or paper. Rules varied from place to place. It might be one shot for center like a turkey shoot, which would conserve expensive powder and lead, or it might be a number of shots to be scored string measure. String measure originally called for driving a peg into the center of the target and each bullet hole, and running a string from center to each shot. Score was the length of string.

    Ned Roberts described targets made of a charred dead black board with an X scratched in the char. The shooter could attach his choice of aiming marker or "bud."

    As time went on, people got to setting up heavy purpose made chunk guns strictly for the matches. There are some still going on, including an Alvin York Memorial.

    As swearengine says, a GOOD false muzzle was made by cutting off a piece of reamed barrel blank, then pinning it back on and rifling all together for precise alignment of the bullet. The false muzzle was normally reamed with a bit of taper into its rifling for easy starting. Some had grooves across the front to align a paper cross patch.

    I had read in Roberts' book about the benchrest slug guns like this, but my gunsmith here shoots round ball benchrest with similar rifles. He says their rifling twist is so slow that he can part off a piece of finished barrel with a thin tool and pin it back on with good enough alignment to start a cloth patched round ball. Modern science intrudes, he uses Teflon coated denim for patches.
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  • charliemeyer007
    Caliber and twist rate? So is a round ball gun or other? Would not have been that much work to answer the question. Stippled trigger, must be for a leather callused trigger finger.
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  • mmppres
    was made to sit there never to move while shooting
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  • jonk
    Chunk gun matches are still held, btw. Just google "chunk gun" and you find pages and pages and pages of info.
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  • Hawk Carse
    A true chunk gun is for round ball and has open sights.
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  • asop
    Interesting, learn something everyday[^]
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