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    Recommended Load

    having hunted elk and killed two or three and seen maby ten killed I wouldn't use a fifty cal. round ball they are just to light in whight. I used a 58 tc big bore and had to shoot mine two times each both shots in the lungs and then still had to track for a good ways. I hear of all the one shot...
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    New Barrell

    Hi all I have a GPH 50 with 1/28 twist I have been looking for a 54 1/60 for round balls but can only find the fast twist for sale will Lyman sale the solw twist like they do the fast twist or will I have to go to a GM drope in I was hoping to get the lyman so as not to have to do any work on it...
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    Leaving gun loaded?

    My brother left his loaded till he would get a shot at a deer or elk. His hunting season was only 5 days. He seamed to miss a lot doing that me I always shot my load out just as we were coming out of the woods. My brother used my rifle to take more then one deer and at lest one elk in the 25...
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    Load for T/C .58 Big Boar?

    I had the .58 big bore for years and used it to take a few deer. I got it because elk and deer seasons are at the same time and I didn't think that a .50 was big enought to use. My load was 115 of 2f and 570 maxie ball shot great but did let you know that you had pulled the trigger. Tom
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    Kodiak Express Double Rifle

    I have one in .72cal. I see that all the ones I sean hear have on pistol grip Mine dose's Is it a differant mod. Or just newer made? by the way it's very well made. Tom
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    load for GPH

    Thanks guys I have killed elk with a 50 cal but was using 110 grains of 2ff. I still took 3 shots in the lungs to keep it down. I finily got a T/C big bore in 58 but never got to shoot an elk with it. I hunt elk every year here i Wa. state as they are in my back yard kind of live out in the...
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    58 caliber CVA Hawkens

    CVA was the second rifle I had and it was a 58. I had to fine .565 balls for it as the .570 wouldn't load. was a very good shooter if you loaded it and fired it but if you let a ball sit in the bore it would shoot all over the place. it had a one inch barrell. I got a one inch 50 cal barrell and...
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    load for GPH

    Thanks for the replays guy's I would like to get a 54 round ball barrall for the gp rifle but can't let the money go just now well thanks Tom
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    load for GPH

    Hi all I have been coming here for sometime have asked a few ?,s but this one is what I would like to know I shoot a GPH in 50 cal. I use a 50 cal bore button and 80 grains of 3f powder. I have taken 2 deer with this load one with 370 TC hunter and one with a 410 grain great plains. What I would...
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