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Rooting around in my closet and found this.
This mold belonged to my Dad. He has been gone many years and I just forgot about it. Single cavity 220 grain Maxi -probably made by Lyman although the box is marked T/C. I decided to cast some slugs and try them out in my Dad's T/C Hawken percussion rifle.
Took the rifle and both round balls-.440 and the Maxi to the range.
I loaded the rifle with 60 grains of 777. From the bench, sitting the rifle delivered a wallop to my shoulder.
Standing off hand was pleasant with the same load.
Also shot some .440 patched round balls. They were pleasant to shoot with the same load from the bench and standing.
The maxi put some smack down on the water filled gallon plastic jugs I shot. Although I couldn't see them getting hit due to the smoke, they ended up torn apart and several feet from where they were placed on the embankment.
Shooting water jugs is fun. I'm not a hunter, but I imagine this maxi ball would do a number on deer.
This mold belonged to my Dad. He has been gone many years and I just forgot about it. Single cavity 220 grain Maxi -probably made by Lyman although the box is marked T/C. I decided to cast some slugs and try them out in my Dad's T/C Hawken percussion rifle.
Took the rifle and both round balls-.440 and the Maxi to the range.
I loaded the rifle with 60 grains of 777. From the bench, sitting the rifle delivered a wallop to my shoulder.
Standing off hand was pleasant with the same load.
Also shot some .440 patched round balls. They were pleasant to shoot with the same load from the bench and standing.
The maxi put some smack down on the water filled gallon plastic jugs I shot. Although I couldn't see them getting hit due to the smoke, they ended up torn apart and several feet from where they were placed on the embankment.
Shooting water jugs is fun. I'm not a hunter, but I imagine this maxi ball would do a number on deer.