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  1. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Well we will all have to disagree for now but I will get back to this thread in a bit after I do some load testing until then It's turning into a **** show so you guy's can continue if you like but I'm way too busy to keep on this thread at the moment. But I have a plan to prove my point but...
  2. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Prove it !
  3. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Your entitled to your opinion but I guarantee I'll outshoot you any day of the week !
  4. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Thanks but a sabot would be blasphemy out of this rifle it’s my custom Hawken and I want to take at least one deer with it before I move on. I’ll go out there and set up some targets and do some testing on location. I talked to my builder and he said I should be good out to 200 yards with 150 or...
  5. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    The only thing I'm interested in a flatter shooting round ball at a longer distance which more powder will do not concerned about velocity at all.
  6. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Thanks for the advice
  7. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Ok that's great but were talking 180 yards here.
  8. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    I know you don't necessarily need a 100 grains to kill a deer 60 or 70 is fine it's about shooting flatter at distance that's what the discussion is about.
  9. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Not sure what part some do not understand so I go into the pines and bust all the deer out and don't even get a shot I guess that solves the question on the distance no shot at all !
  10. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Here's a few pics of my spot you can see my gun rest going across the two trees. They bed in those pines I come in from the road from behind where I'm sitting it's a pretty steep hill and this spot is just high enough after you crest the top to watch this area and not bust the deer out. I saw...
  11. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    I thought it was 150 and my rifle is a custom hawken with probably one of the best barrels you can put in a muzzleloader. As far as a shooter goes I'd say I'm pretty good myself usually coming in the top two or three if not first in the matches I used to shoot and I even had a rest just not a...
  12. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    I have a Gibbs that shoots a 540 grain paper patch not buying anymore smoke poles I have a flintlock being built then I'm done at my age I should be selling not buying although I would like to build a few more kits when I retire.
  13. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    I do exactly that I get there 40 minutes before first light you have to understand this particular spot it's very unique in terrain it has bedding, escape route and funnel all in one if you can't get in there any further that's why I see deer there, when you find a pocket of coues deer you have...
  14. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    Good unit IMO. Do you shoot at RIO ?
  15. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    I don't eat at Burger King but looks like you do ?
  16. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    That's why my mistake was not using more powder shooting flatter out to longer distance. My Hawken has a 32" barrel and shoots same poi from first shot to the 3rd I just think that 30 yard misjudgement in distance would have been negated if I used a 150 grain load instead of the 100 and I will...
  17. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    6B
  18. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    I like them out of my White rifles they shoot big heavy chunks of lead extremely accurate and they are all slip fit so very easy to load shot to shot they have their purpose for me when hunting whitetail back east.
  19. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    You want big chunks of lead here are the slugs I shoot out of my White rifles the honker on the left is a 54 cal 740 grain and the little one on the right is a .50 cal 600 grain that 54 is a reject not a perfect cast so no comments on it please.
  20. lou puleff

    Hunting loads for my .58 black powder rifle

    That’s an original GRRW barrel if my mind serves me correctly it’s a 1-66 but could be 1-60 I’d have to go back and look.
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