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I generally use a .36 for squirrel hunting and early season coyotes once the leaves fall because the shots tend to be longer. My average distance to take squirrels after the leaves fall is about 35-40 yards. I once shot a squirrel off the top of a rock at a measured 65 yards. That was my...
Bobby Hoyt is the best thing to happen in the muzzle loading world since the black powder craze started back in the 70's with T/C coming out with the Hawken. He is the "go to" guy for all black powder barrel work, and we are very fortunate to have such an honest gentleman to deal with. I have...
Do as Phil says, or put your jag in a drill press or hand held drill and run the drill/press with a file against the jag to remove some of the brass to make the diameter of the jag smaller. The other option is to use a .45 caliber jag.
I use .345 balls with a .015 patch in my 1843 Penebaker rifle which I believe is a .35 caliber. I tried .350 balls, but even with a .005 patch it was hard to seat the ball.
Is this a factory gun or did someone convert it from flint to percussion by installing a drum & nipple arrangement and a change of locks? Removing the drum and a few of the protruding threads might solve the problem, but sometimes it is difficult to re-index the drum so the hammer lines up with...
As far as I know, the T/C Renegade (with 1" ATF barrel) was the only model that had a .56 smooth bore in percussion. You could put the Renegade .56 smooth bore barrel on a T/C Hawken if it had a 1" ATF barrel channel that they used for .54 and larger calibers on the Hawken's. ( I just found...
I searched this forum for some information regarding "dulling" a shiny stock, but did not come up with anything useful. I have a flint lock long rifle that has some tasteful inlays and stock carvings in some very nice figured maple. The issue is that who ever finished this stock must have used...
I have never had that problem and I have shot over 30 deer with round balls from 50 caliber to 58 caliber. Of the 30 or so deer shot I have only recovered 2 flattened round balls under the hide on the far side. Blood trails were generally easy to follow due to the pass thru, but most of the...
Why not chuck the nipples in a drill press or hand held drill and use emery paper to polish and reduce the diameter of the nipples slightly for a better fit?