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    Shallow rifling question

    Thanks guys.
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    Shallow rifling question

    Thanks for the patch info. Yes, I'll want to work up a good RB load for it too. I anticipate using it mostly with the heavier conicals, especially on evening hunts. I do not want to have to trail a deer in the fading light after a shot right at end of shooting time. Done that. Rather have...
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    Shallow rifling question

    I am not familiar with much south of I10. I spent summers in the very young and growing neighborhood behind the High School on north Uvalde, had an uncle there, when most of it was just dirt roads and woods. Had a bicycle and explored much of it on that with other kids I met in the neighborhood.
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    Shallow rifling question

    You mean Sheldon Reservoir? Yeah, buddy! Between there and the river there is a bunch of palmetto bottoms with critters that will bite and not let go. Just right there in Houston too! (Actually, Houston grew out and surrounded it.) Not far from there as the crow flies there are a bunch of...
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    Shallow rifling question

    I've located two Lyman Deerstalkers and am considering purchasing one or the other. One is .50 (.502" bore, .510 groove, 1/48"), the other in .54 (.542" bore, .550" groove, 1/48"). Lyman recommends conical or sabots due to the shallow grooving. Please educate me: are there good, multiple...
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    Pyrodex Select RS question

    I tried this powder in FFG last week and it left something like a damp, greasy residue in my Invest Arms .50 Hawken. I clean with moose milk per the System between shots and there was much more residue on the cleaning patch than with the other powders I have tried. I cleaned it as good as I...
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    Lyman Stainless Deerstalker questions

    I appreciate the info. In my search I have read about the shallow grooving. In addition, there is conflicting info about just what twist rate was used. Apparently a couple were used over the years. I have also been researching coatings as a backup plan, but I would prefer to leave my Hawken...
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    Lyman Stainless Deerstalker questions

    Agreed. Still, want traditional rifle, made with stainless steel.
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    Lyman Stainless Deerstalker questions

    Essentially, that is all I am trying to accomplish, affording myself whatever additional margin I can to make it through the day until I can clean it that night. Does anyone make a traditional stainless other than Lyman?
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    Lyman Stainless Deerstalker questions

    I sometimes hunt in the saltgrass marshes of coastal SE Texas, a salty environment that can play hell with a gun's metal finish. I am considering trying to find a used Deerstalker in stainless to help deal with this. Before I invest the time to track one down, is the stainless used in Lyman's...
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    New Lyman GPR observations

    The front sight that you suggested is a great front sight. Have one on my Invest Arms Hawken. If I might recommend, mix some quick-set epoxy and dab a small bit of it each place the fiber optic plastic intersects with the metal housing. The plastic will break and piece of it will fall out...
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    Twist rate on 1984 T/C Hawken and Renegade

    Excellent info all. Thank you everyone.
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    Twist rate on 1984 T/C Hawken and Renegade

    What would be a good starting load with these guns?
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    Twist rate on 1984 T/C Hawken and Renegade

    I am helping a buddy identify the twist rate of two T/C rifles he inherited from a friend who passed last year. Both bought on same day in Aug 1984. One is a Renegade .54, serial number 198959. The other is a .50 Hawken, serial number 343269. Any idea what the twist rate is on these? Thanks!
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    Smooth bore accuracy?

    My Cabela's Hawken is a gateway muzzleloader. There should be a warning printed on the box. This is about to get expensive. Grandma got me hooked on squirrel and squirrel gravy over biscuits for breakfast more than fifty years ago. To that end I see a smoothbore in my future. Sorry to hijack...
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    Smooth bore accuracy?

    God help me: I don't even own a smoothbore, yet I'm over here reading threads on the smoothbore forum. ML is a sickness, isn't it? I can walk away from this smokey white devil anytime I want to...
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    "Round Ball"

    This language continues to evolve in my house. According to my wife.
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    .50 loading jag that scribes RB the least?

    I considered that but with limited free time I thought I would see if one was already available. If not I'll chuck it up Christmas afternoon and get started. Thanks! Merry Christmas everyone!
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    .50 loading jag that scribes RB the least?

    Best news today. I'd like to get a .50 loading jag that would be able to go through the thimbles on my Hawken. I hunt with a TC ramrod with the folding t-bar on the end, so I can't put that end down the thimbles and leave the loading jag pointing forward as would be with the hickory loading...
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    .50 loading jag that scribes RB the least?

    I have three .50 loading jags and I pressed them on three RBs. Each scribed the ball, all differently. Two left rings of different depth. The third, the one with the widest front radius flattened the ball on top, to the point that when it rolls and the flat spot ends up somewhere near bottom...
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