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  1. Howie1968

    exit wound on a boar ising 535 gr no excuse

    got some pigs coming back so i took my handy .54 white mountain carbine loaded with no excuse .535 bullets wonder wad 80 gr pyrodex p. shot distance 25 yards completely wrecked the heart and lungs exited off side with massive wound and spewed blood several feet from the hog he took a couple steps
  2. Howie1968

    Lyman GPH .54 front sights

    what front sights do you men have on your GPR or GPH, initially i went with the lyman with the white bead but after breaking 3 of the beads i bought a lyman fiber optic front, once again snagged it on brush broke the fiber optic. switched to a globe front sight made by lyman and in low light...
  3. Howie1968

    Finally giant hogs showing up

    Finally got some big boars coming back in. These are some of the biggest hogs I've seen in over 35 years of hunting them
  4. Howie1968

    Son shooting .690 round balls out of Pedersoli 12 gauge side bside

    Son shooting.690 RB out of my Pedersoli 12 gauge https://youtube.com/shorts/9iDHOzOv4Hc?feature=share
  5. Howie1968

    Teaching my son old ways

    Teaching my son to shoot the 12 gauge Pedersoli buck and ball load https://youtube.com/shorts/9iDHOzOv4Hc?feature=share
  6. Howie1968

    i figured out why i missed the doe when i the video

    i uploaded the video as ive watched over and over i just realized i blasted a hole in the blind on the supporting crosspiece that supports the window screens. another thing i should have had the setting on the monopod at that close i should have free handed it the video is dark and grainy but...
  7. Howie1968

    Help needed on glow in dark front sights

    When shooting out of a blind in daylight hours I cannot see my white dot on front side same thing happens when shooting under as roof at shooting range. I mainly hunt hogs at night and use night time red hunting lights and use a red headlamp to illuminate the front sight
  8. Howie1968

    tough week hunting

    Been a tough hunting this week me and a longtime friend came to my place and camped temperatures dropped to the 20s at night with lots of rain severe thunderstorms and tornado watch on saturday most of the week we had wind gusts to and above 20 mph saturday i had a oppurtunity at a doe a 25 yard...
  9. Howie1968

    adding sights to my 12 gauge sxs

    ive got 4 12 gauge sxs 2 of them i shoot .690 roundblls out of them. they shoot decent to 25 yards, id like to put sights on them for more consitant aiming point. thought of a 6-48 peep in the rear and some sort of bead white or brass up front, i my reasoning is my pedersoli kodiak .72 is to...
  10. Howie1968

    Hunting with a zoli .58

    pigs for me have been non exsistant for me other than a few archery properties only i hunt passed on some good bucks this year but cant wait until muzzleloading season january 6th im on vacation the whole 2 week season and id love to take a deer with my zoli zouave. bob hoyut has relined it with...
  11. Howie1968

    anyone shoot the lyman 57gpr sight without the spacer in there great plains hunter

    ive gone back and forth on this ive got a lyman 57 gpr sight on my lyman great plains hunter .54 seems with the spacer my sight is to high compared to my front sight when i take the base off my eye naturally lines up better i hunt shoot to a maximum of 50 yards i shoot for fun past that but...
  12. Howie1968

    bullet casting question

    what causes undersize conicals when casting? the lead does not scratch real easy on a bunch of bullets i have ive been buying from various casters and am finding the lead is a little harder. what is the maximum BH am i looking for for conicals out of my various muzzleloaders. i understand...
  13. Howie1968

    Cabelas investarms) Hawken main spring

    i posted a while ago and cant seem to find the info when looking today. while my hawken .58 still sets powder off and the caps go off the couil mainspring seems to be weakening. will a lyman deerstalker coil mainspring work in this the lyman great plains and the trade rifle all take the same...
  14. Howie1968

    who here hunts with smoothbore 12gauge sxs exclusivly for all game

    while i have many rifles i love the 4 smoothbore double 12s i have im curious as to how many or who exclusively hunt all there game deer pigs small game feathered game with there doubles. ill say this my 2 pedersolis are 1/2 the weight as my kodiak sxs .72 rifle my sxs 12s loaded with .690 ball...
  15. Howie1968

    buying muzzleloaders, if you had to do it all over what would you have bought and not bought

    im on vacation this week so ive been shooting some of my rifles its only been 6 years since my re-introduction into traditional muzzleloading. looking over what i have bought, what i use, and what i wish i had. i really am most fond of Hawken style rifles and the trade style rifles...
  16. Howie1968

    Finally a peep on my .32 crockett

    Finally my Crockett is at the gunsmith about to get drilled and tapped. I went with a skinner lo pro sight bought an extra medium aperture for it. I went this route as I bought a Mable's bullseye sight but I butchered the dovetail. (Lessons learned) I put the original back in but it wouldn't...
  17. Howie1968

    hogs have vanished

    After 6 years of hunting them every week taking hundreds out i can say the hogs are gone. occasionly a lone boar comes through, i actually resorted to taking my long time 70 yr old hunting buddy on a paid archery hunt for hogs. guess ill get after the turkeys when season starts. found turkeys...
  18. Howie1968

    Big Barr hog 3-29-2021

    shot this big Barr hog last night before work, came into my night setup and stopped 15 yards from me my Thompson center Big Boar .58 loaded with TOTW 600 gr maxi behind 90 grs Olde Eynesford 3F at the shot he dropped in his tracks center punched his lungs it had a massive exit hole i really...
  19. Howie1968

    WANTED .54 caliber paper patch template

    im looking for a .54 paper patch templatre im using some .540 no excuse 535 grain bullets. i bought some #9 pound onion skin paper patch material 2 wraps and it works great but cutting them 1 at a time is a pain. without paper patching them the .540 slide down the barrel and back out with no effort
  20. Howie1968

    Commercial .58 maxiball woes, advice

    I ordered around 400 .58 maxiballs 20 packages of 20, so far about 5 of the 20 are very loose and will slip fit into my TC big Boars i own 2 of them, the ones that fit snug shoot well. im wondering if i could wrap them in onion skin 2 wraps and shoot them. not knowing if they are 100% pure lead...
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