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    New (to me) T/C Seneca, bore questions...

    I have not to a ton of experimentation, but with 70gr of 2F Schutzen over a rest with PRBs I can put 3 shots into about an inch @50yds.
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    Maxi Ball Questions

    I decided to just work with PRBs. As for conical bullets--maybe next year, with a stouter rifle. I made it to the range today, tried a bunch of loads and somewhat haphazardly settled on 70gr of 2F, .440 ball . There was so much variance in my groups due to the rudimentary sights on this rifle...
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    Maxi Ball Questions

    I'm definitely trying 2F first starting at 60gr, and I won't exceed 70 gr. The T/C recommended max load for the Seneca/Cherokee is 90gr 2F with a PRB, so hopefully that will be within safe parameters. 70 gr 2F is the load the load they recommend for best accuracy. If I don't get the accuracy...
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    Maxi Ball Questions

    I'll try 70gr 2F and maybe 60gr 3F with PRBs next, and see which shoots better. T/C recommended 70 2F in some of their literature.
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    Woodsrunner

    They sent the $75 offer to those on the waiting list as if they had already bought a rifle, I called and asked about that. It only applies to a second purchase.
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    Maxi Ball Questions

    The Seneca has a reputation on the internet. The slim wrist on the stock combined with less than perfect inletting on some examples has resulted in cracks to the rear of the lock or tang. It also has a thinner barrel than most Hawken style rifles. T/C published separate load data for it and...
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    Maxi Ball Questions

    Thanks for all the advice. If I continue experimenting with the Maxi Balls I’ll try wads as recommended. It does feel like I’m stressing such a light rifle (and my shoulder!) though, so I'm thinking I should stick with PRBs. Cheaper too. Conicals just look so much deadlier, but I guess...
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    Maxi Ball Questions

    I will try a dry wad. Another question: Is it possible to come up with a load for PRB that shoots to the same point of impact? Or would that end up being too hot for a delicate rifle like the Seneca? What size dry wad?
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    Maxi Ball Questions

    I shot Ox Yoke Maxi Balls for the first time in my recently acquired .45 T/C Seneca. I've only ever used PRBs so I wasn't exactly sure of the correct technique. I just got the grooves as well packed with Wonder Lube as I could and seated them on top of the charge. I tried 60gr FFg and then...
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    New (to me) T/C Seneca, bore questions...

    I’ll try the Scotch-Brite, since I happen to have some. I got a bore light the other day and thr bore really doesn’t look too bad. Couple of specks near the muzzle and one tiny patch about halfway down which I can feel with a jag and patch, if I move it just right. Otherwise it’s like a...
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    October 2022 Muzzleloading deer

    I hear a coyote chorus nearly every night. M y trail camera shows they are all over my chicken run (chickens are locked up and inaccessible to them). So far they have not molested a single deer I’ve shot, but most of the time I recover them within minutes of the kill. I know I should shoot...
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    HOW RURAL IS RURAL?

    Thanks Flashpoint, I’m grateful every time I step out my back door. It just never gets old (Unlike me LOL). Every night I walk out to lock up my chickens, about 100 - 200 yards, depending where they are situatated, and the evening light over those hills is just breathtaking. But I am fully...
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    How do you clean your rifled barrel?

    For the MAP mixture: Denatured alcohol or isopropyl alcohol?
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    October 2022 Muzzleloading deer

    Small bucks are about as good as it gets for venison. You guys are lucky to have an early ML season. In my state (CT) the season is after rifle/shotgun, not until Dec 9-31. The earliest deer season is Landowner, which I luckily qualify for, and that starts 11/1. This year I plan to hunt the...
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    HOW RURAL IS RURAL?

    Zapadach, I've actually had nightmares about that. One thing that may keep it pristine is that the lower areas have been zoned as floodplain, but when someone wealthy enough wants something in my part of the world, somehow the laws seem to bend.
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    October 2022 Muzzleloading deer

    Nice little buck--probably going to taste great! Similar thing happened to me a few years ago. Probably the biggest buck I ever shot, and I got him still hunting, too. Anyway I was on one shoulder of a ridge that I know really well, we saw each other at the same time, he jumped and ran. I...
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    New (to me) T/C Seneca, bore questions...

    Scotch-Brite? Won’t that make scratches?
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    New (to me) T/C Seneca, bore questions...

    It's a .45. I'll be shooting it in offhand matches for practice, but I got it for deer hunting. I have .440 round balls and also Ox Yoke Originals 220 grain Maxi Balls. I'm not sure which I'll end up hunting with, I guess I have to see how it shoots. I have the TC recommendations for Seneca...
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    HOW RURAL IS RURAL?

    North West Connecticut: I don't know how, but so far this part of the state has escaped the sprawl. I own a small house on 33 acres: 10 for hay about 5 that I rotate small my chicken flock on, and the rest is pine woods and overgrown pastures with a cedar swamp somewhere in the middle. I see...
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    New (to me) T/C Seneca, bore questions...

    I just bought the rifle below. I don't have a bore scope, but I dropped something reflective down the barrel, after running a few dozen patches with Balistol through it. Impossible to photograph, but the bore was bright and clean looking all the way down, except for a few bright orange rust...
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