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thank you sir. I see your in north Ga. what part? Ill be up there weekend after next for a week hunting with my uncle just outside of Rome Ga

Well I think I have got it shooting ok now. What we did was shore up our shooting table and started shooting off of a bar stool. I dropped the load down to 60 grn and I have got it shooting 1 to 2 inches high at 25 yards I shot a 5 shot group just above the bulleyes. Now my next question with...

Iam shooting a .490 swaged roundball with a .015 prelubed patch both are made by TC

I totally agree when i start something i like to finish it. But when you dont know what your doing you ask someone who does. Ill be starting over in the morning with 55 grs at 15 yards and moving up from there it was too windy today to try and shoot

I never could get a consistance group. shots would beleft then right , up and down between 2 to 4 inches. I even had my son and 1 of my buddies shoot and it was the same for them to. Im going to start over in the morning and start at 50 grains and try to group at 15 yards and move up slowly. I...

I am covering the front sight in the middle of the bulls eye. I found some of the patches and the middle of the patches are not torn but the outside of the patches are shreaded. I started out shooting with 60 gr and bumped it up to 70gr with no change. Like I said in the 1st post Im GREEN at all...

Well as you get older your eyes get weaker and you want to do everything you can to make a humane kill. When I was a kid I could hit a bottle cap at 15 yards wit a BB gun. We just have to adjust the best way we can as we get older.

How abrasive can I get with the barrel and not do any damage to the rifeling. I put a 50 cal brush on my patch rod and ran it back and forth hooked to a cordless drill. Can I get more abrasive than that and not damage the grooves?

Buck fever was for sure very HIGH. I was sitting in a ground blind on the edge of a road in the woods over looking a dry pond and the deer came from my left . I only saw him when he was about 10 yards to my left and he was walking like he was in a parade at a steady pace> my gun was leaning...

Ok Ill try to answer all of the questions you all have asked. The patches are prelubed TC patches and are labeled .015 they are new to me dont know how they were on the shelf, I dont have a way to measure them. The balls are .490 175 grain TC swaged round balls.I am using a bench in the standing...

First of all Im new to black powder shooting. I was giving an Thompson Center 50 cal New Englander by my uncle. I started out shooting 70 grns of pyrodex with a 175 round ball with a .015 patch. I am running a dry patch between each shot and cannot get any kind of grouping pattern. I went up and...