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    .50 cal roundball load

    I use 80 grains of Swiss FFFg Black Powder by volume and a Hand Cast .490 Ball with a .015 pillow ticking patch with a 1 to 3 ratio of deer tallow to boot oil dressing, seems to work for me pretty well. Clover leafs at 25 yards, about an inch at 50 yards, and about two inches at 100 yards...
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    Big PRB Meat Ruiner?

    Thanks for the advice gents, I've never shot a deer with anything larger than my .50's and all so I am a complete novice to the larger bore's and those punkin ball's. And the gun is a double and it is choked cylinder on the right for the PRB and modified on thee left for a buckshot load...
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    Accurate loads for a T/C Hawken

    Just out of curiosity what is everyone's loads for PRB's and conical's out of a T/C Hawken with the 1/48" barrel? I'm just wondering what everyone else's recipes are, thanks.
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    Big PRB Meat Ruiner?

    I just recently bought myself a 10 Gauge double and bought some RB's for it and was wondering was it going to make instant hamburger meat out of the deer? I usually shoot decent 150lb to 175lb bucks and 100lb to 120lb does and I was wondering is it going to stop in the animal at decent...
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    Small Game loads 20 guage

    My gun prefers equal volumes of shot and powder in the 75 grain area with #6's and #7 1/2's for all my small game hunting, it's a family tradition on Christmas day to have a cold Georgia morning quail hunt, and thats what the #7 1/2's are for, other than that #6's are golden for everything. Hope...
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    Wolf: .32 enough?

    The fact of the matter is that no matter what caliber you are shooting you should be absolutely sure of your shot placement and your ability to make those boiler room shots in hunting positions, and also if you insist in using the .32 I would personally use a conical for penetration issues that...
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    Favorite conical?

    Thanks for everyones input, I'm lookin around now and should have plenty of options with the bullets suggested, thanks a lot!
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    10 Ga. Magnum

    Preciate your input, I'm looking forward to touching off a couple of those loads and will put up the info on it, thanks.
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    Online Powder Buying

    I appreciate the advice on it gents, willd do as soon as I'm done here, thanks.
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    PRBs out of .54cal Smoothbores

    BEAUTIFUL gun! Hope it fills your freezer!
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    Unload at end of day?

    I do a lot of hunting in Florida and Georgia in swamp bottoms and thickets where the humidity is through the roof even in the winter so I always pull the load and clean the gun and reload in the morning, in my opinion it really depends on the weather conditions and where your hunting at, hope...
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    dove load devolpment for NWTF navy arms 12 guage

    I've got a 10 Gauge double and the best patterns I get are with equal volumes of shot and powder and an over powder card and cushion wad, and I also use unslit wads as well to tighten patterns at longer ranges, and I also prefer #8's and #7 1/2's for dove as well, the pattern is denser and gives...
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    Hog Pistol

    Anyone use pistols for hogs, and what loads do you use for them?
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    Online Powder Buying

    Does anyone know a website where you can buy FFFFg not in bulk quantities online?
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    Favorite conical?

    Just out of curiosity what is everyone's favorite conical out of a Lyman Great Plains Hunter in .54 caliber? I just bought one online while I'm over here in Iraq and am looking at ordering a few different brands of conicals than the same TC maxi hunter/ball that I've been using for the last ten...
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    Pistols for squirrels and rabbits

    I own a crockett pistol in .32 caliber and an 1851 colt navy in .36 caliber and was wondering has anyone used either of these for small game hunting and what were your loads and how was your accuracy, thanks.
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    10 Ga. Magnum

    I just bought a 10 Gauge magnum double from dgw a few months ago and also picked up some .76 rb's for a prb load and was thinking about 100 to 110 grains FFg, anyone fired this gun with a load like this, how was the accuracy and recoil on this, just curious if I might have myself a dandy punkin...
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    Load Development for Hog

    Due to modern advances in medicine my mother has recently gone from about a third of her vision to almost 20/20 and she has expressed an interest in hunting again as she used to do it a lot before she went almost completely blind, and she wants to go for a black powder hog this fall in Florida...
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