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    54 caliber conicals

    the 54 caliber Great Plains bullets that have been discontinued are still in shelves occasionally. I found two packages in a local gun shoo in southern Michigan today. They had some T/C maxi hunters, too, but I have a lot of those already. The great plains bullets shoot a little better
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    54 cal conicals

    apparently Hornady is discontinuing the 54 cal Great Plains conical. They shoot so well in my TC Hawken, too. I did a preliminary search yesterday and I’m coming up empty for options. To be clear, PRB in this gun and caliber is redundant for me. I already have a 50 cal dedicated PRB shooter...
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    Felt wad recipes?

    Never used them, but read a lot of your posts referencing them. How do you make yours? What felt do you use, and where do you find it? What lube do you use? I shoot a T/C Pennsylvania Hunter roundball rifle and a 54 cal T/C Hawken with conicals, if that info helps. Will probably only use them in...
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    After deer season letdown, what do you hunt?

    Got a little deer with my T/C Hawken 54 in the Michigan "primitive" season. All deer seasons are over here now in the mitten, but I'm not ready to pack it in just yet. Squirrel, rabbit, and predator/furbearing seasons are still open. Supposed to get "Snowmageddon" over the weekend, but that's...
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    Two deer, totally different results

    Got to talk with my son more extensively today. The 425 gr Great Plains bullet went in one shoulder, hit the off-side scapula, made a nearly 90* turn up the neck, only stopping at the base of the skull. Even cracked the skull, yet the deer ran over 500 yards. Even my 79 year-old father had never...
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    Overkill

    Shot a black squirrel with my TC 50 cal Pennsylvania Hunter. .490 ball and 90 gr eq pyrodex RS. Shot at about 20 yards and hit right in the head. Missed a whole deer in the same place, at the same distance, the day before. It was certainly overkill, but I got a whole squirrel to eat, anyway...
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    Two deer, totally different results

    What a difference a week makes. I shot a small deer a week and a half ago with my TC Hawken 54 cal, Hornady Great Plains Bullet and 90 gr 777. Hit the neck at 35-ish yards. Oddly, didn't seem to break the spine, but it was DRT, and I had to look for entrance and exit holes. One week later, my...
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    First deer with muzzleloading rifle

    Hm. That's a big buck. Mine was half that. The mushroomed Great Plains bullet is pretty impressive. I'm aware that the revered Patched Round Ball will kill deer just as dead, as I've been told by virtually everyone here, but this rifle was bought to use conicals. I just like big guns and heavy...
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    Powder flask questions

    I did get quick loaders with it, so I'm using those. The flask just seemed like a good backup. Hm. Revolver flask...might be a cap'n' ball revolver in my future. After all, I already have the flask... :grin:
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    Powder flask questions

    For revolver....ooooohhhh, now I get it.
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    First deer with muzzleloading rifle

    Not a big deer, but a first with my TC 54 Hawken. Shot on an antlerless permit in Michigan. My only disappointment? It was a button buck. Had I been able to tell I'd have let him grow up. Still, I've been hunting my 15 acre parcel for a lot of years and this was my first with traditional...
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    Powder flask questions

    What looks like a lever or cover to one side of the spout seems to be a dead end. It's just a sealed tube. Is that just to hold an extra charge? Can't fill with it. By the way, I did take a chance and loosen the setscrews holding the top on, so I can dump the powder. I'm taking your advice and...
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    Powder flask questions

    https://www.google.com/search?q=powder+flask+for+sale&client=safari&sa=X&hl=en&biw=320&bih=529&prmd=sivn&source=univ&tbm=shop&prds=fpr:1,mvi:0,pid:17869082079226637697,sgro:om&srpd=17869082079226637697&ved=0ahUKEwiLmMqrv9bJAhXE6yYKHeB9B2QQnUAI2gM This is the url to a listing for a powder flask...
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    Anybody squirrel hunt with their 54

    Head-shot a black squirrel with my 50 Pennsylvania Hunter. Prb, 90 gr Pyrodex, offhand, at about twenty yards. I was, um, going back to the spot where I'd missed a big doe the day be fore. At the same distance. Funny how a guy can miss a whole deer at the same distance he can head-shoot a li'l...
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    .54 TC

    Sorry, I meant HORNADY bullets. 425 grain 54 cal. Have great expectations for them.
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    .54 TC

    Don't have the 15/16 barrel, but I'm experimenting with the Lyman great plains bullets in my 54 Hawken. The first two shots with a load of 80 gr 777 almost touched at 25 yards. T/C book max is 120 gr equivalent, though 90 is the accuracy load. Yes, I know it's too much and "PRB is all you...
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    Maxi ball vs maxi hunter performance

    Morinin', fellow shooters. I have a 54 cal T/C Hawken. Bought it with accessories that included maxi-hunters. A friend just gave me some original T/C-style maxi-balls he casts. I haven't shot them yet, but plan on deer hunting with this rifle. I've heard stories of maxi-balls not being as...
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    Heating chert before knapping

    Some forms need to be heat treated to make the cryptocrystalline structure more uniform and more workable. The primitive archery and primitive skills folks do this a lot.
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    TC Hawken .54

    Don't know how it will effect elk or moose, but commenting because I made the identical purchase last summer. Didn't get to make meat with it yet, but can't imagine a 54 cal 300+ grain projectile that won't take either animal at open-sight ranges. Just by way of asking, which projectiles are...
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    .58 caliber HEAVY conicals???

    Hm. Well. Is 58 cal recoil that much greater than 54 cal? I've been getting acquainted with a 54 cal T/C Hawken and Maxi-Hunters. Some posters on other threads on the forum refer to it and it's recoil, but even with 90 grain charges, it is nowhere close to a Marlin 1895G with max loads, and that...
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