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After a long delay, I finally had a chance to test my Pedersoli Hawken Hunter 50 cal. The day was cloudy and 45 degrees and at the local range. I first shot at 50 yards with a patched up target. The load was 70 gr.v of Swiss 2F, a 420gr. No Excuses conical over a 54 cal. felt wad. I repaired the target to show the two shots at 50 yards.
The two red dots are the first two shots. The white square was used to help with the background for the small brass bead on the front sight of the Pedersoli.
I hope Idaholewis and potato boy see this and comment about the sights. At my age I need a fiber optic front bead to see anything. I was also thinking about adding a 57 SML tang sight with a little more vertical adjustment as well as some windage.
The next two shots were taken at 75 yards. I had never shot this muzzleloader past the 50 yard spot, until this past Saturday. The impact locations were even with the square and just a little to the left. Again, thinking I would like some windage adjustment. One of those small black patches at the eleven o'clock position was the first hit, the second being down in the middle, nine o'clock spot in the white.
I was swabbing the barrel between each shot when the range officer announced a stoppage, so I thought okay and went down to move the target to 100 yards which was new territory but I would learn what the drop would be.
Again, the red dots show where the 100 yard shots impacted the target. The Pedersoli has a 1-24 twist.
The white square was about 3 1/2 inches tall and 3 inches wide. More testing is scheduled for this gun, but I wonder if I tweak with the factory sights (adding holes for the tang sight), will I affect the value of the gun overall. The next testing will be with BullShops 460 gr. conicals with the NASA lube.
What say you Idaholewis?
Dave Heffner
Roseburg, OR
The two red dots are the first two shots. The white square was used to help with the background for the small brass bead on the front sight of the Pedersoli.
I hope Idaholewis and potato boy see this and comment about the sights. At my age I need a fiber optic front bead to see anything. I was also thinking about adding a 57 SML tang sight with a little more vertical adjustment as well as some windage.
The next two shots were taken at 75 yards. I had never shot this muzzleloader past the 50 yard spot, until this past Saturday. The impact locations were even with the square and just a little to the left. Again, thinking I would like some windage adjustment. One of those small black patches at the eleven o'clock position was the first hit, the second being down in the middle, nine o'clock spot in the white.
I was swabbing the barrel between each shot when the range officer announced a stoppage, so I thought okay and went down to move the target to 100 yards which was new territory but I would learn what the drop would be.
Again, the red dots show where the 100 yard shots impacted the target. The Pedersoli has a 1-24 twist.
The white square was about 3 1/2 inches tall and 3 inches wide. More testing is scheduled for this gun, but I wonder if I tweak with the factory sights (adding holes for the tang sight), will I affect the value of the gun overall. The next testing will be with BullShops 460 gr. conicals with the NASA lube.
What say you Idaholewis?
Dave Heffner
Roseburg, OR