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Offline Double 30

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GM ball barrel accuracy and FINALLY
« on: June 08, 2007, 04:40:55 AM »
Just put one on( .50 cal) my T/C Hawken sparkchucker and was wondering what kind of accuracy you folks are getting.I'm using a .495 ball and .020 patch.Loads tolerably tight and 70gr of Swiss 2f gives me 2 1/2 inch 50 yard groups.Seems to me it ought to do better than that. But its probably me, I'm not espicially good with a flinter...yet. I heard that  the Penn. Game Commission has ammended the post Christmas flintlock season rules to FINALLY allow aperture sights ;D.We've waited a long time for this.
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Re: GM ball barrel accuracy and FINALLY
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2007, 06:32:41 PM »
give her alittle time , it and you will settle some .  if you at 2 1/2 inches now shell be clover leafing  with alittle work
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Re: GM ball barrel accuracy and FINALLY
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2007, 07:49:24 PM »
Renegade .50, T/C 66" twist barrel, .490 ball, .018 patch, bore button, 80 grains FFg Wano, 50 yards, benched:

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Re: GM ball barrel accuracy and FINALLY
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2007, 09:05:44 AM »
My 1/70 twist GM .50 caliber, mounted on a T/C Renegade, with a .018 patch and .490 round ball shoots a lot like Slam Fire's......at 50 yards.  around 1/2 inch at 50 yards is not uncommon, and 1" is consistently done.  I shoot 70 grains of pyrodex.
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