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Traditions St.Louis Hawken .50cal at 100 yards today. 2 shots using 6 o clock hold. Next 2, I used 12 O clock hold. Only difference was my seating pressure and as you can see, heavy seating pressure did not affect the group size nor the impact. Shes right about 3" high at 100 yards. I do prefer to be dead on, but that's ok, I have plenty of time before I find out if I drew an elk tag or not.

Load was 80gr 1.5fg Olde Eynsford, .020" patch and a .490" round ball. No swabbing. I found earlier that this powder did not react well at all to a water based patch lube, but my hunting lube, it loved. Bullseye diameter is 3"

That top group is really tight compared to the lower, so I am going experiment more next time and try that heavy seating pressure again.
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Earlier with a mix of water, alcohol and murphys oil soap, this was the 100 yard results. It does not like a cleaning lube in my gun thats for sure!
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I have had some amazing results with OE 1 1/2. What it does best is fouling maintenance.... you can shoot all day with Old E w/o whipeing. I've found Swiss and Kik needs to be swabbed in the same conditions.

Murphy's Oil Soap is cr@p for lube additive! I made some lube with it once and it completely rusted my sizing dies, my Luber sizer, and anything else a touched.
 
Just to add a data point, I had my T/C Hawken with a GM slow twist 50 barrel out today and tried OE 1.5F. This rifle shoots 3F Goex, 2F OE and Black MZ well as long as the charge is 70 grains. With a .490 ball and a .015 prelubed (wonderlube) patch, I got a softball sized group at 50 yards with 70 grains of 1.5F OE. When I upped the charge to 80 grains the group shrank to an inch or so. At 90 grains the group was at least as tight. Fouling was easy to deal with.

I have ever gotten this barrel to shoot well with more than 70 grains of powder, so I am impressed. I will probably hunt with this barrel for muzzleloader deer and 90 grains of OE 1.5 is easily my choice for a hunting load. Can't wait to try it in my 58 cal slow twist rifle.
 
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