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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    Go with bismuth. It isn't like you are going to use much of it with a muzzle-loader. What is nice about a forum is it lets me talk about the issue and I usual answer my own question. I hunt wood ducks on a small creek with a few decoys. They fly for 30 minutes then they are done. If I am using...
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    My new Caywood Gunmaker's English Game Gun

    Me too! Jan 2 is opening day where I will be hunting with it. On vacation that whole week. The hawk was only $60 so it was a no brainer to have him make it for me. It just sits on a shelf, but I like it.
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    My new Caywood Gunmaker's English Game Gun

    I love the ramrod. He put a 20G jag permanently on the RR end so I can load wads AND clean the bore without adding a jag to the end of the ramrod. Very convenient. He did the same on the .58 cal barrel. Vent hole is flared or coned, works well and fast ignition.
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    My new Caywood Gunmaker's English Game Gun

    100% true, but the flared vent hole seems to work well. Ignition is fast for sure.
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    My new Caywood Gunmaker's English Game Gun

    Not a liner, it is a flared or coned vent hole. Seems to work well, ignition is fast.
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    I'm good, I bought three pounds not that long ago and the duck season is coming to an end for me soon. Next year I will buy a 10 pound jug from Rotometals and that will be a ten year supply for me. I do appreciate the offer though.
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    My new Caywood Gunmaker's English Game Gun

    Thank you!
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    I was thinking the same thing. I think 1989 was the year Louisiana went to steel shot only. Boy was that a learning curve for the industry and hunters. Maybe it was just lack of knwoledge at the time for TC?
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    My new Caywood Gunmaker's English Game Gun

    Ha! I recently started hunting some public land for ducks and realized I also found a good hog area. It is a WMA so it is shotgun only. The first year I bought a used .56 Renegade smoothbore and restored it to a pretty nice gun. Shot two hogs with it and really got the itch for a nicer SB. This...
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    Yes i have been using wonder wads for a long time. In 1996 I bought a Pedersoli 20G D-Barrel through Cabelas. Use WW in it and also in my .56 Renegade. When I bought the d-barrel I kinda did not have a need for the 12G barrel for the New Englander, but always wanted it. So I finally broke down...
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    My new Caywood Gunmaker's English Game Gun

    Thanks! the picture quality came out horrible though. I think I was tryying to get close up shots with my phone and it did not work well.
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    I thought about the 16G cups also, but honestly after some conversation here, Bismuth is the best answer since the volume of shooting will be low. It is expensive, but I won't be shooting a lot of it so it just makes the most sense.
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    My new Caywood Gunmaker's English Game Gun

    Always wanted a fancy custom ML. Ordered it last year, took anout 8 months to get it. Danny Caywood out of Arkansas built it. 20G and .58 barrels. Very light and well balanced. Bought it for walk and stalk hog hunting.
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    Rotometals is where I bought mine. I bought three of the sample one pound packs. I use them for my lead for my cast bullets. I think Bismuth is the best answer also.
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    The problem is there is really nothing out there in Google land that answers this question. So looking at my 1992 TC instruction manual for the 12G barrel, it shows steel shot loads using only wonder wads and no plastic shot cup. What do y'all think about this? This goes against everything I...
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    I bought a few pounds of Bismuth from the lead supplier I use for my cast bullets. It just expensive, but is actually the best answer to the problem. I think for as much as I will hunt with it I will go that route. It is $20 a pound, with will give me about 16 shots per pound. Now that I break...
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    Brown Bess loads

    Yeah I almost burnt down my public range from a smoldering paper cartridge 🔥
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    I actually thought about just going the Bismuth route and being done. It won't be my goto duck gun, I have just always wanted to shoot a duck with a BP ML. So I would use it a few times a year and that would be about it. The 12G plastic wads I bought (250) actually fit perfectly in my Brown Bess...
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    I've said it before but say you do get a few lines in the barrel from using it, so what. I totally agree on this, a long as t does not do damage that makes the barrel unusable, I really don't care.
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    12G new Englander and steel shot-The TC owners manual rec'd load

    Hey guys. I bought my .54 TC New Englander in 1992, just recently bought the 12G barrel. I should have bought it in the 90's for $100, it cost me $450 on eBay 3 weeks ago, but it is a 'never been shot' barrel. The 12G barrel has screw-in chokes. Serial number is either 60,xxx or 100,xxx, that is...
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