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    Casting real bullets

    I ask this question on another part of this forum maybe more folks will see it here. I suspect when casting 250gr Real bullets are not always filling out completly. Bullets will start to group then will get some flyers. I have noticed some 250 reals start harder the others with the short starter...
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    latest shoot cva hawken 50

    I had repositioned the peep sight and so wanted to start at 25yd to sight in. There is a low spot in my range at 25 so I set the box at a paced off 31yds. The sightin group is just out of the pix to the right eccept for the right three holes. I used 250gr lee reals for sight in, I then shot a...
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    CVA Hawken With Primitive Sights...

    And early stage cateracts, at least thats what my va doctor tells me. My right(dominate) eye down to 20/40, left eye down to 20/30. Way to early for sugery so must find a way to deal with it. At the range 1 or 1.25 reading do the trick. Since I am using ghost ring rear sight i'm ok there but...
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    Powder measure spouts

    Talking about the screw on measure tubes ( different lengths and diamaters for different charges that go on brass flasks). I have several the last one I bought I think was suspose to be 70gr. Ok when I fill it then dump into my adjustable measure I get about 63gr. This is with fff-777. Since...
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    New (to me) cva hawken range test

    Ok i'm the guy that had so much trouble with getting my t/c hawken to shoot groups even at 25yds. Had a chance to buy 50cal cva from my neighbor. Will try to put pix in now and if it works will edit in more.
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    Update on my hawken t/c 50

    A couple weeks ago I shot the rifle after doing every thing I could to make sure I had got rid of any/all lead deposits in barrel. Patches still shreaded with prb. 250gr reels ave. about 4in @ 25yds. off bags!! I gave up on the t/c barrel went home and took a greenmountain barrel that I knew...
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    t/c hawken problem

    Last spring I posted about flyers with my t/c hawken 50 caplock shooting 250gr lee real bullets, got a lot of good advice here. Over powder felt wad helped but it seams that after firing just a few shots (2 or 3 ) the flyers come back. Now I have not yet been able to shoot a prb without patch...
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    Scopes on M/L, how much improvement?

    Especialy for those around 60 or so, how did the groups compare to those fired with open or app. sights?
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    New range report, T/C Hawken

    Had another nice day yesterday and headed for the farm 68degrees and sunny. I had cast a batch of 250 REALS, but was mainly wanting to try to get PRB to shoot in my rifle. I greased up the reels with young country lube, and since by now the wind was picking up set target box at 25yds. Got my...
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    Range report ailing T/C Hawken

    A while back I posted about having problems with flyers with my T/C hawken 50. I appreciate all the helpful tips and I think I found the problem. As I posted I tried a lot of things reduced charge of 777, PRB with over powder patch, 777 and ffg black. 250REAL with reduced load and over powder...
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    traditional vs the other M/L

    Why do we prefer traditional to the inlines. Here are some of my reasons, I’m an older feller and when I got into M/L there were no inlines. I like to shoot a lot and assuming PRB or home cast conicals I can shoot a lot without breaking the bank. Using rear peep set up as ghost ring I feel...
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    Aging eyes and open sights

    Fast aproaching age 60 and some times open sights look a bit blurry, my t/c hawhen has a goast ring rear sight which helps a lot, just for fun though I once or twice tried shooting wearing low powered reading glasses. also tried it with open site 357 revolver, in both cases sights were sharp and...
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    Questions, t/c hawken 250 Real Bullets

    Greetings all, I’m new here but not new to muzzelloading I do have a couple questions though. I am trying to get my 50 tc hawken to shoot the 250gr Lee real bullet. With a ghost ring rear aperture sight and bead front sight and off sandbags using 90gr 777 at 25yds about 1 in. group and 3-4...
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