• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades
  • Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

Search results

L & R
the hawken shop
shop deals on amazon
Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. D

    400 yard hits with a patched round ball

    Herb, Did you try those figures that I worked out for you or did you not understand how to use them? You should always put the target on top of your front sight (where you can clearly see it)then adjust the difference between the front and rear to hit the target even when your walking the...
  2. D

    Interesting comment from Tip!

    Has anyone contacted Tip to see what he really said or to see if what he said was taken out of context or wheather he said anything about touchholes at all. So& so said so&so is just hearsay. If someone wants to pose the question about wheather bigger is better, he can pose that question...
  3. D

    GM 32 cal barrel?

    If this is one of those drop in barrels for the Renegade/ Hawken then shooting it will be the easy part, LIFTING it will be the hard part but whatever you'll want some .310 balls and some about .015 patches. I have a lightweight barrel and my .32 is very accurate with that combo. Deadeye
  4. D

    Need a Lee Mold - .490 Round Ball

    PM sent to semisane
  5. D

    100yd .45 Range Report

    Is accuracy just as good with the over powder patch as without. You might try a wetter patch I have 3 .45s and I use a .440 ball and a .013 spit patch (chewed on til it's soaked)I normally shoot 60 grs. of 3F but I've shot as much as 110 and my patches just have a dark spot in the center but I...
  6. D

    The 5th of July

    Smo,about 15 maybe 20 yrs. ago I bought a Seneca with a rusty barrel. I rebarreled it with a GM .45 barrel 36", sighted it in then put it away until couple of months ago I used it for one of these postal shoots and it shot so well that I used it again for this one. Deadeye
  7. D

    The 5th of July

    Thanks guys and good shooting to everyone and thank you Jethro for going to all the trouble. Hope you didn't mind me ribbing you a little,I couldn't resist. Deadeye
  8. D

    The 5th of July

    Congratulations!!!!! to the winners of the July match, whoever you are. I think I shot that one, hard to remember that long ago. :stir:
  9. D

    .36 Medium Twist

    Yes, your right the longer the bullet , the faster the twist. I imagine JD knows that, probably just having a senior moment. The question though, as I read it, was about the vent on small bores. Deadeye
  10. D

    .36 Medium Twist

    All my flinters, large or small, vent the same from shot to shot, why would there be a difference. Where smokeless guns are usually running 25 to 50+ from shot to shot, BP guns usually run 10 to 15 fps spread. You'll get a larger difference from the consistency of your load than from the...
  11. D

    Patch or Wad

    From many yrs. of shooting and also competing with smoothies and owning 7 of them, my experience has been that using a spit patch of the right thickness to fit your ball to the barrel will give you the best accuracy that YOU will ever get from a smoothie. Deadeye
  12. D

    By request, Loooong range shoot...

    This , probably, has something to do with that thread that been going on for awhile on the forum about shooting 400 yds. I calculated where I needed to hold my sights, picked out a (about 2'X2' rock) lazered at 407 yds. shot offhand except leaning my back against my truck and found that it...
  13. D

    400 yard hits with a patched round ball

    Thanks, Grumpa. I also have a 1000 yd. range available nearby where I plan to shoot some 400 Yd. paper targets. Hope to get that done soon. Deadeye
  14. D

    16 bore ?

    I've found .020 smaller than the bore is about right, so .640 with .015 patch. Deadeye
  15. D

    Ramrod stuck in barrel blues

    "What am I doing wrong?" Your using a Delrin rod and moose milk when you should be using a brass rod and spit. IMHO, Deadeye
  16. D

    .32 cal Smoothbore

    At squirrel distances and even beyond it will be as accurate as you are. Deadeye
  17. D

    Where to find steel rammer

    To get back to the original question. I believe you can get a steel ramrod from Dixie Gun Works or you can get a brass one from October Country. Deadeye
  18. D

    Burning lens

    Seems like when I was a kid, every magnifying glass I came across would start fires quickly but after reading some posts here I checked a glass, that I keep here by the computer, and I couldn't even get a piece of paper hot????. I have a Cash box and a couple of others in my ML stuff, took them...
  19. D

    400 yard hits with a patched round ball

    FWIW, today was mostly calm and with a rifle(one of my own builds with a GM barrel 32" Hawken style gun, 25.5 sight radius) I already knew where it shot out to 200 yds. and it was easily calculated how much more front sight I needed to hold up over my rear sight to reach 400 yds. .54 cal PRB...
  20. D

    How often do you use your set trigger?

    Recently a neighbor called and wanted me to install a single trigger in his TC hawken. He had already obtained the trigger from a well known muzzleloading supply house. What they sold him was a TC double set trigger, just like the one in the gun ,except with everything removed except the front...
Back
Top