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- Nov 11, 2011
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I was finally able to make it out to shoot my new to me T/C Hawken .54. I've been wanting to use this gun to hunt with PRB. I started out at 25yrds with 90gr Pyro P with .530 speer ball with .015 wonderlube patch. The target below is what I came up with. I went to check what the patches looked like and couldn't find any. I figures 90gr of Pyro P was to much and was shredding my patches.
I decided to lower my charge down to 80 gr of Pyro P at 25 yrds and I was able to shoot the 5 shot group below. Again I looked for the patches and found nothing again. I tried shooting it where I knew I would find the patches but nothing still. I'm tickled with this group but wonder if I'm loosing a ton of energy with shredding patches.
I tried some .018 ticking patches with Moose Milk and they where shredding just like the others since I never found a patch at all. The .018 ticking was extremely hard to load and I know I was deforming the ball when loading it.
I'm hoping to get some 1/8" felt wods and see if that helps with my patches. I'm also going to try some Pyro RS to see if that helps with the patches. I also gave it 50 strokes of JB bore paste just in case it was the barrel shredding the patches.
I decided to lower my charge down to 80 gr of Pyro P at 25 yrds and I was able to shoot the 5 shot group below. Again I looked for the patches and found nothing again. I tried shooting it where I knew I would find the patches but nothing still. I'm tickled with this group but wonder if I'm loosing a ton of energy with shredding patches.
I tried some .018 ticking patches with Moose Milk and they where shredding just like the others since I never found a patch at all. The .018 ticking was extremely hard to load and I know I was deforming the ball when loading it.
I'm hoping to get some 1/8" felt wods and see if that helps with my patches. I'm also going to try some Pyro RS to see if that helps with the patches. I also gave it 50 strokes of JB bore paste just in case it was the barrel shredding the patches.