Hello all,
I have a .62 Cal French Tulle Fusil De Chase. I built it from a Woody Woodall kit years ago. I have not taken a deer with it yet and would like to. My current load is 65 grns 3F (Goex), .600 round ball, .015 ticking lubed with the yellow Bore Butter. What is the best deer load any of you have luck with? And at what range is it good for 50yrds or further? Thank you in advance.
All the best, Rodgers Ranger
I used to have a CenterMark Tulle FDC in .62. Bought it in the late 80’s. Was a pretty good gun. Worked well with 75 to 85 grains of 2f or 3f and a .595 ball.
Sold the gun to buy and try a Brown Bess for a while. About 1990 I wanted another CenterMark and called Ray Woodall to order one. In a moment of poor judgement I sent him a check at his request for full payment in advance to speed things along.
Follow-up calls over the next few months went unanswered, or resulted in promises that my gun would ship in a few days. Finally, I found out from a couple of sources that Woodall had closed shop and declared bankruptcy, and I was screwed out of my $800.
Woodall claimed he had caught some of his guys doing drugs on the job and fired all but one or two. Then the remaining ones quit in protest, and he was on his own trying to complete orders.
Maybe true, maybe not. Don’t know.
Last I heard he was doing tour guide work for some kind of historic old-time railroad and and mine attraction locally sometime before he died.
Never got my $800 back. Bad deal all around.
In 2004 I ordered, and still have, a Paul Siebert CenterMark .62 . I guess Paul bought the rights to the company name and logo or something.
No problems dealing with Paul. Wonder if he is still making guns? When I last talked to him years ago he was operating a small vineyard and built a few FDC’s over the winters when the vineyard business was not taking up a lot of his time.
