Who has a t\c white mountain carbine whats you shooting

[Ed oetzel]

Just picked up a super clean white mountain carbine,can't wait to shoot this gun,tell me what loads you have luck with.Will use it for deer out to 75yds.I have some maxi-hunters and pyrodex rs,but let me know anything you know about this little carbine.

 

[Idaho Ron]

I don't have one but my hunting buddy does. He used my load. 80 gr of Pyrodex P with a Paper patched 460 gr 500 S&W bullet sized .501. This deer was about 110 yards and the bullet took out the shoulder and exited the flank. The deer dropped like a sack of rocks. Ron

 

[playfarmers]

I have a hunting buddy that shoots 60g of Pyrodex RS and a .490 round ball. he has taken a pile of deer with this little rifle, but all are inside of 75 yards.

 

[Brik847]

go to 3-11 or 12 -08 post on white mt. carbine

 

[bucktales]

You need to let us know what caliber and what ROT your carbine is.
T/C offered the WMC in .50 and .54 and during it's production run,and ,at least with the .50 , changed the barrel's twist rate a few times.
I have an early production .54 with a 1:48 ROT and I shoot a .530 ball ,.015 patch and 80-85 grs. FFFg. Very accurate for a gun that short.
Years back, I also shot heavy lead conicals such as Buffalos and Hornady . Killed deer dead with them, but recoil was heavy and unnecessary.

 

[Skychief]

Have not used mine for several years, but, it liked buffaloe ball-ets. Apologies to all the prb proponents :redface: . I am a prb fanatic by the way.

 

[rabjr]

I had one of the first .50 cal's which was 1-20 twist. Used to use 100g 2F with a 370 Maxi-ball wayy back then. Five shots, five deer. Still kick myself for selling that one.

 

[Ed oetzel]

Thanks guys keep it coming,mines a ,50 I don't know the rate of twist can you tell by the serial number?

 

[rabjr]

They only made them in 1-20 twist for a couple of years then switched to 1-38 in the .50 cal. All I can tell ya is I had a low 4 diget ser#.

 

[nw_hunter]

I think most of the older 50 cal's were 1/20 twist.
Just before T/C quit making them,I believe they went to 1/32.

I shot excellent groups with GP hunters, and I was surprised at the good groups I got with roundball out to 50 yds or so.

 

[rabjr]

I think most of the older 50 cal's were 1/20 twist.
Just before T/C quit making them,I believe they went to 1/32.

I shot excellent groups with GP hunters, and I was surprised at the good groups I got with roundball out to 50 yds or so.

Excuse me, but this is one T/C I happen to know a little bit about. The .50 cal started out 1-20 twist rate. I believe it was 91' or it may have been 92' we went to buy one for my cousin and I was surprised to find they changed the twist rate to 1-38 which was the same twist rate as their Thunder Hawk and Fire Hawk.

At the time, I knew one of the guys who test fired T/C guns.

 

[Skychief]

FWIW, mine is a .50 with 1 per 38" twist.

 

[rabjr]

FWIW, mine is a .50 with 1 per 38" twist.

You should be fine with any of the big conical, probably round ball too. I've owned two 1-38 twist T/Cs but back then never shot round ball through them.

You have to understand a lot was going on back in the late 80's, early 90's with the fast twist crowd. Guns were coming out with 1-20, 1-24, 1-26, 1-28 and 1-32 twists and most started out trying to push pistol bullets in plastic sabots. Really didn't make sense for a company like T/C at the time to make a gun that shot someone else's bullet. So they compromised with the 1-38 twist and came out with different Maxi-ball, Maxi-hunter weights at the time. So in .50 cal you had a choice of the original 370 gr Maxi, 320 gr Maxi and I believe a 460 grainer. It's been a long time but I don't think they even make those other than the 370 anymore. By the mid 90's most of the fast twist crowd settled on 1-28 twist and a ton of different bullets hit the market, pretty much forcing T/C to jump on the band wagon. You see the space age guns they make now a long with their own line of bullets for them that don't look nothing like Maxi-balls.