TC Hawken. 54cal. Open sight. Firing round ball with 100grs FFF black powder. 75-80yds. She rand 50yds and dropped. 5:45 pm. 7:53 before I had her quartered up and on the game cart and ready to go. (Had to hike out to GET the game cart). 9pm before I dragged nearly 400lbs of elk to the truck. I was DONE!
Gary
Hi Gary,
I built a 54 cal black powder riffle from a TC kit and had a blast building it. Browned all the metal parts (no bluing) with traditional buck horn sights, linseed oil for the stock finish, steamed, polished and hand rubbed to a high luster hand polished all the brass parts (it was a fun break from building stunters).
The only thing I ever shot with it was an old bowling pins and steel silhouettes at some of the black powder shoots I went to. It was pretty accurate at 50 to 100 yards but not much more than that, I tried shooting at 55 gallon drums at 200 yards and missed.
That was a dandy shot from the yardage.
Mikey
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