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FWIW, I chrono'd the load yesterday while reaffirming the accuracy, and it is only going 950 fps. Having taken an elk last year with it (at only 30yds) and not anticipating taking a shot at over 75 yds, I hesitate to up the load. While I would love to have it pushing 1100, I think the ME and...

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30 year old Lyman .54 Deerstalker shooting T/C 450 gr Maxi balls over 90gr. Pyrodex RS with front groove filled with Bore Butter. Off my elbows on a solid bench at 50 yds. I pulled the 3rd shot with a slow cap, the rest fired normally. I have the Lyman tang peep and a target globe front...

My 1990’s 54 Deerstalker was only marginal with 530 balls and 010 patches. 015 didn’t seem to help, nor did varying load from 90 to 80 to 100 gr. 2f. Put it away for 20years then tried it with TC Maxiballs. Problem solved. Something in the rifling I guess. My TC Renegades shoot both well, the...

Buy a $20 dial caliper and measure the cast balls. Buy a set of pin gauges from McMastet-Carr sized from .452 to .457 and find out what your cylinder mouths measure. Something’s not right if a true .457 ball won’t leave a nice ring of lead shaving when seated. Just sayin.….

I prefer Dr. Tichenor’s as a universal panacea. 🤢

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I would not play up the lethality of front loading firearms, or pretty soon those on the left who haven’t already done so will catch on, and there goes our access. Please, keep it to yourself and not in writing on the internet. Just sayin.

For what its worth, I shot a smallish bull at 40 yards this year with a pure lead .54 Maxi ball over 90 gr. of P-RS. Unfortunately, I hit him high enough to miss the heart and aorta, so just double lung'ed him. The bullet broke the offside shoulder and lodged just under the skin. He didn't...

Final preseason check. Black target is 54 cal 430 gr Maxi ball over 90 gr P-RS from 50 yds, standing, with a Stoney Point monopod as a shooting stick. My Lyman Deerstalker with a 57SML peep. Blue target is a Hornady swaged .530 prb with a .010 wonderlube patch over the same 90 gr P-RS load at...

Yes. 5 months ago.

Ive done about 30 GB deals over the past 10 years, as buyer and seller, and only 2 have gone bad. One, the buyer informs me the side by side wont close (I shipped it taken apart) and sure enough, when he sends it back, it appears he dropped the barrels on the locking lug and bent it (a Savage...

Don’t remember where I got it but about 25 years ago I bought a machined brass nipple cover with an O ring inside and a hole for a leather thong through the top. The O ring keeps it from falling off and keeps water out as well. Lower the hammer on the cover and just give it a quick tug on the...

I shoot the Byers Canyon range every once in a while, but its a two hour drive from Golden, so not very often. I shoot the Clear Creek range more often, but it will be shut down for a year or so after January 1, so Im not sure where to go. Cherry Creek is 35 minutes away but is too regulated...

Local SWH had No. 11 caps in stock at 5.99 per tin. 2 per customer with ID. Bought 2 , will go back tomorrow.

A new Corvette in 1972 booked at $5800. A Winchester 70 for $112. A Browning Hi-Power for $126. $500 was big bucks back then.

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I got a TC Renegade Hunter .54 a week or so ago because it is the only one like it I have seen. S/n is 382xxx, but I cant find a way to date that. It has a deluxe quality figured walnut stock with 22lpi machine cut checkering on the grip and fore end. Fit and finish is top quality for factory...

Welcome from Golden. Where do you shoot?

First moved to Colorado in 1976 at Ft. Carson. Now the front range and the interstate corridors have become completely suburbanized from the Springs to Ft. Collins and from Byers to Newcastle. Like a big bullseye with X marks the spot at Denver. My brother lives in Sisters, Oregon and its...