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atvguns said:
I will give that a try, sometimes I hear what sounds like a double boom I wonder if that is the patches blowing.
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Are you sure that wasn’t a hang fire you were hearing?

I had several delayed or hang fires with 2F T7 out of my New Englander.

I was using a regular nipple.
 
Triple 7 2f and 3f have always worked well in my TC percussion rifles and Patriot pistoI. I used it for years, except my hybrid TC Cougar 50 cal. ( It has a Hawken barrel on the Cougar stock and hardware ) Every time I shot it with 3F 777 it would go bang, then I would get this weird turbo spooling up sound like sucking air through the nipple then it would send out rings of smoke, it's pretty darn funny to watch. That rifle is happily named Turbo Lover. What I found was, not all of the powder was burning off in the initial blast, maybe the simple green and water patch being over saturated... idk. Now when I shoot 40gr of 3f Goex it is extremely accurate at 25 and 50 yards offhand with perfect ignition. 100 yards I have to bump my charge up to 70gr to get good bench groups at 100 yards. All are with .490 rb and .015 wonder lube patches.
 
777 does NOT like any compression at all. If each load has small differences it will show up.
 
45man said:
777 does NOT like any compression at all. If each load has small differences it will show up.
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Interesting. I pack every load of t-7 pretty well in 3 different rifles-TC Hawken, Traditions Hawken and St. Louis Hawken, and it functions really accurately for me. Maybe inconsistent compression is the real and bigger problem. That would probably show up in real black powder as well. I have only been doing this for a bit over a year and these 3 rifles have accounted for 4 deer from 30 to 80 yards and accuracy has been great. All with t-7, 2f SW
 
Steve Wagner said:
Interesting. I pack every load of t-7 pretty well in 3 different rifles-TC Hawken, Traditions Hawken and St. Louis Hawken, and it functions really accurately for me. Maybe inconsistent compression is the real and bigger problem. That would probably show up in real black powder as well. I have only been doing this for a bit over a year and these 3 rifles have accounted for 4 deer from 30 to 80 yards and accuracy has been great. All with t-7, 2f SW
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Everyone's idea of accuracy is different, What kind of groups are you getting at 25 yards?
 
Found this one from 06.
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wiped between shots.
27" Douglas barrel.
 

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