Share your Hunting Load

[Sharp Shooter]

Share your hunting load and what you hunt everyone! I have not quite got one yet but I think It will come in to around 90gr Goex, .015 patch and a .530 Hornady roundball.

 

[Sharp Shooter]

I forgot to say that I plan to hunt antelope with that load... And maybe elk.

 

[Slake]

I'm thinking of trying conical bullet. I have been using a 490 ball and prelube pillow ticking {storebought} that I think is 018 blasted outa there by 100 grains of goex [Although one year I used Pyrodex RS]. I've been hunting whitetail deer for three years with muzzleloader. I'm two for three. Been hunting thirty three years with 30/30 and my score ain't that good.

 

[bob1961]

my .50 T/C hawken likes

70 grains goex
.490 hornaday round ball
.015 T/C's pre lubed

80 grains goex
240 grain T/C cheap shot sabots...........bob

 

[hawk]

4 drams FF under 1 7/8 #6 in my 2nd model Bess were ready for turkey season ,opens on tuesday!

 

[Rebel]

80 gr Dragon 2f powder and 1 1/2 oz of #5 lead shot for Turkeys. Will probably be using 80 gr Goex 3f and a .600 rd ball for deer. Both loads out of a Jackie Brown Carolina smoothbore.

 

[hawk]

for round ball loads I've found 120grs FF and patched .715 ball hits the mark consistantly.

 

[bigbore442001]

I know that people here will hate me for putting it down in public but my favorite deer load is the following.

Three pellets of H777 with a 348 grain Belted bullet. Works very well on them.

 

[roundball]

Deer hunting loads all include Goex, Oxyoke wonderwads, and Hornady balls.

RIFLES
(.018" lubed pillow ticking)
.440/.490/.530 = 90grns Goex 3F
.570 = 100grns Goex 2F

SMOOTHBORES
(.015" lubed cotton patches)
.530 = 70grns Goex 3F
.595 = 100grns Goex 2F

 

[Stumpkiller]

.50 Percussion:
0.490 round ball
0.018" patch
84 gr FFg

.54 Flintlock:
0.54 round ball
0.018" patch
86 gr FFFg

Yep. I've been using 3F in the .54 and that's what I prime with, too.

 

[john12865]

I know that people here will hate me for putting it down in public but my favorite deer load is the following.

Three pellets of H777 with a 348 grain Belted bullet. Works very well on them.

Your right about the first part. :grin:
I don't even want to know about the second part. :shake:

 

[john12865]

.490 RB. over 60 grs of Goex fffg with .015 pillow tickling patch in a Lyman hawken 28" barrel 1 in 48 twist. Accurate and deadly.

 

[Old Ironsights]

Whatever will hit within Minute of Deer at 100yds (not that I'm likely to shoot that far).

Right now that seems like a 350gr Minnie and 95gr 3F.

 

[roo shooter]

for my .50 hawken 90grains wano 3f .012 patch olive oil lube .490 ball sighted in about 2 inches high at 50 yards.Yet to shoot the .58 hawken but hope to work up a load around the 90 to 100 grain mark with prb.

 

[Bob J]

All Goex

Turkey-

10 ga. double
4 drams 2f
1 1/2 oz. #5s
two over powder cards
one thin card over shot

.36 Sells TN flintlock
40 grains 3f
.018 wonder-lubed ticking
.360 ball

Deer

.54 GPR
100 grains 2f or 3f (GPR ain't fussy!)
.535 ball
.018 wonder-lubed ticking

.54 Sells TN flintlock
load to be developed this summer

 

[Elkinde]

Hey hey! I've experimented with hunting loads for over four years and have come to this same conclusion as yourself. I use that load in my 50 cal. Hawken Woodsman. It's taken whitetails out to 70 yrds. but I don't think I would try anything farther than that. I'd have the tendancy to bring out the 50 cal. "Buffalo" rifle for long ranges with a heavier powder charge and meatier conical.

 

[Marc Adamchek]

Stumpkiller - Let me first say I've always gotten great information and other lore from your posts/replies, and that I certainly mean no disrepect, but.............what do you use to measure your powder to get such a specific load as 84 or 86 grains,and do the extra coupla grains really make that much of a difference from a "standard" gauge of 80 or 85 grains?

 

[Stumpkiller]

An RCBS 5-10 beam scale. I weigh out loads at home and carry a bunch of vials marked with masking tape when working up a "most accurate" load.

Alternatively, I use a measure and then throw 10 charges to see what it really throws by measuring it. I've found NO calibrated measures that throw what they are marked at with either 2Fg or 3Fg. (The T/C ones I have are within 5%, I have an Italian measure that is off 27%!! That's enough to be potentially dangerous if you load hot). I keep a list of what my measures truly throw, and that is where I come up with the weights I post.

My two favorite and most used turkey-bone measures happen to throw those charges. If I lose one I'll know exactly what to make the replacement to hold. When I make measures I work them to even numbers, in increments of two grains, because THAT is as accurate as I think a body can measure in the field.

So . . . does 1 grain make a real difference; say 85 vs. 84 gr? IMHO not enough that you'd ever notice. I just don't happen to have an 85 gr measure. :haha: You'll also see me mention a 42 gr squirrel charge for my .54. That, by cosmic chance, happens to be what a .45 Long Colt case holds if filled to the mouth with 2Fg. :winking: And a double charge with that happens to be . . . SHAZAM! . . . 84 gr. And, my sliding T/C brass measure throws 84 gr at the third click instead of 80 as expected. :hmm:

So, you see, it's not because I am precise. It's because I am somewhat lazy and happen to have measures in those volumes.

 

[Marc Adamchek]

so you actually backed into precision by the imprecise measures you use....Fascinating! It makes perfect sense. Coincidentally, just a coupla days ago when loading my .45 Lancaster I thought to myself, "my measure says 75 grains, but how do I really know that it's pouring exactly that?" Gotta get out that beam scale from my smokelesss powder reloading days!

 

[GreyWhiskers]

Have yet to perforate any game with my T/C Hawken but it shoots most accurately with 70 grains of Goex FFF uner a .490 RB and .015 patch. I plan to hunt pigs soon and will report on it's performance.