Yup, very nice indeed, I thought about buying it and selling my TC BB but…. It’s a QLA model base on the pics!! I don’t want to take chances since my BB shoots pretty well (2” @50yds with RBs). Also, just acquired a 54 beater Renegade I want to send to Mr Hoyt to make it a dedicated RB .58!
My mountain rifle is 1 in 72 twist and does NOT like conicals of any shape or weight but will put patched round balls under an inch @ 100 yds with any charge from 80 to 120 grains of fffg from a 32" barrel.
Doesn’t feel so good inside, knowing you can do that with a primitive firearm?
Currently shooting a couple of TC 58 caliber Hoyt rebores, one flint, one percussion. Radius bottom rifling, 1-60 twist. Both like 80-90 grains of 3F Swiss and are accurate out to 100 yards plus. Little difference between. 80 and 90 grains as far POI. Both guns are accurate with up to 120 grains plus of powder. But regularly visiting my dentist have little need to knock the plaque off my teeth while shooting. Not to mention that most of the fun goes away when I load more than 90 grains of powder.
Nope that durn thing shoots way better than I do. What continues to surprise me is that it just doesn't seem to be at all fussy as to load once I found that it liked .562 balls and .010 patches with fffg only.
Amen to that, once you get a base load the fun begins.
Ouch!
What is your rifle’s twist rate? Had same issue with 1-72 twist barrels that didn’t get real happy until well beyond 130 grain charges. 1-60 barrels in 58 caliber have allowed me to find very good roundball accuracy with 80 grains of powder, yet still hold accuracy up 120 grains and more, though I find the fun is gone before 100 grains.
