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  1. Howie1968

    Decked a big boar yesterday with GPH .54

    Yes sir, i bought this rifle in june with the intention of shooting a little longer range than my normal 25 yards or less ive been practicing and ive shot to 100 the lyman 57 sure makes things easy
  2. Howie1968

    Decked a big boar yesterday with GPH .54

    Been having a issue with a big boar jumping in the feeder pens set up for deer he tore 2 pens up trying to get in. I recently sighted in my Lyman great plains hunter .54 with some 535 gr No excuse bullets. I was in my climbing about 60 yards away the wind was blowing pretty good i spotted him...
  3. Howie1968

    FOR SALE Loading stands

    Do you make these for the lyman plains pistol
  4. Howie1968

    South of DFW--Waxahachie, Ennis area

    ive killed alot of pigs in Maypearl i have family in ennis Alvarado
  5. Howie1968

    Lyman current quality?

    this year ive bought a deerstalker .54 and a great plains hunter .54 my second deerstalker by the way. both of these i had to sand the barrel channel to relieve some wood as stated the triggers were inletted way to far on both the gpr stock was so tight i took to a gunsmith to let him relieve...
  6. Howie1968

    How do we rehab bullets with dried out lube?

    i use s nylon brush then recoat with xlox
  7. Howie1968

    casting lee real bullets

    I use xlox similar to lee Alox i stopped beeswax crisco mixes all the other types of lubes i tumble lube single coat ive tumble lubed double coated them and couldnt tell any different in accuracy i use it on .32 maxiballs all the way to the 1000 grain .72 conicals i have it really shines with...
  8. Howie1968

    50 and 54 caliber ballistics

    once you establish FPS from chronograph the math is simeple square the velocity which is multiplyinging it by itself Divide by 450250 multiply that number by weight in grains that will give you Kinetic energy for example 1600x1600= 2,560,000 divide by 450250=5.685730149916 x 177 grain .490...
  9. Howie1968

    Lyman GPP and Lee reals

    i paid about 160.00 per barrel the smoothbore he may be able to go to .62 weve had a discussion before it depends how deep your sight screw holes are drilled
  10. Howie1968

    Lyman GPP and Lee reals

    I bought about 200 600 gr .maxis from tow plus i have the 440 gr lee real mold. Yes both my renegades bored out by Bobby Hoyt 1 barrel i had bored to 1-66 .58 the other 1-48 sure lightened the renegade up ive had such good luck with patched roundballs passing through on big hogs. Now those 600...
  11. Howie1968

    Lyman GPP and Lee reals

    Actually i have 2 big boars .58 a cabelas hawken .58 2 renegade .58s and a zouave.58
  12. Howie1968

    Lyman GPP and Lee reals

    yo you are welcome id really like to have a lyman plains pistol with a .58 barrel to carry with my tc big boar .58
  13. Howie1968

    Lyman GPP and Lee reals

    My mold came in a lee real .54 300 gr i casted some up lubed with liquid xlox 1 coat i used 40 grains pyrodex P shot distance 25 yards. I did not have a chronograph but i believe the 40 grains will be max for me. Accuracy was really good when i did my part. I can see this being a companion...
  14. Howie1968

    Why such a to-do about antlers? You can't eat 'em.

    it boils down to choices here in Texas ive been on MLD properties where ive been a part of at some of these 20 does were to be taken off i had the oppurtunity to take alot of deer. ive bow killed 87 deer thats beside the point but as ive got older and hunting pigs deer meat wasnt my favored...
  15. Howie1968

    Deer on my place

    from this spot over a 3 month period i had over 7000 pictures so i will summarize, when i put corn out both hogs and deer would come the problem with that was the hogs would vaccum it up as fast as the feeder put it out. when that happened the deer stop coming. i then put out 2 bales of good...
  16. Howie1968

    Deer on my place

    Surprisingly on the North property the hogs dont bother the place except along the creek when the acorns drop. 4 years ago we had a huge problem until feeder pens went up. an occasional boar would jump in after several nights in a row of pulling sd cards id go hunt them and take them out. the...
  17. Howie1968

    Deer on my place

    Here are a few deer on my place. We are in the middle of a WMA we have deep creeks on 3 boundries we call this our north property. The south property only has WMA on the west boundry east and south rivate property. A loop roud runs down the center of the property dividing into a east and west...
  18. Howie1968

    Fat pig down with the TC big boar .58

    Just 5 years ago i found this forum got back into traditional muzzlsloading after 35 years now 35+ several safes and need another. When i was told it was addicting i didnt realize. My only muzzleloader deer kill was 37 years ago with a 50 caliber patched roundball. Ive got lots of deer on my...
  19. Howie1968

    Fat pig down with the TC big boar .58

    Thats a nice buck. It happened to me once a out 15 years ago. That buck was tearing himself up
  20. Howie1968

    Fat pig down with the TC big boar .58

    Toot, that is the beauty of it. underneath the mud course hair callous fat is the other white meat. wild pig is some of the best table fair there is. low in fat high in protien. i prefer wild hog over deer only exception is possibly elk or axis deer
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