St Louis Hawken Barrel

[laney1566]

Hey guys. I am aware that a 1:60 twist rate is designed for patched round balls such as my GPR has.
I was looking at the barrel of my CVA ST Louis Hawken .50 cal and the barrel is a 1:48 twist.
Does that rate of twist work well with Maxi-Hunter bullets?

 

[rafterob]

Yes, you may need to fiddle around with loads and the specific type of maxi but the 1:48 is generally considered a multi-purpose barrel. I got some hand cast maxis a couple years back, sorry I don't know the weights off hand, but there is a 2-band and a 3-band. I had extreme diffficulty loading the 3 band and accuracy not that great. The two band is a charm!

 

[smokymtnsmokepole]

Leadpot, my St. Louis Hawken shoots really good with 350 grain maxi-hunters in front of 90 grains of powder. Killed lots of deer with that load.

 

[laney1566]

Thank you much!!

 

[Sarge]

My son has a Traditions 'Springfield Hawken' with a 1:66 barrel, that will hold about 3 MOA with Lyman's 385 grain "Great Plains" bullet pushed by a healthy dose of Pyrodex.
http://www.thesixgunjournal.net/traditions.html

 

[BigErn]

Hey Sarge,
I really like that shooting table,would you have
any other pic's of it up close?It looks pretty simple to build!Thanks
Ernie