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Offline Buckskins & Black Powder

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A hawken day
« on: December 14, 2009, 12:08:09 PM »
This sucker can shoot!! I loaded up 90gr Pyrodex RS and then weighed them out on my scale. 66.4 grains weight. Homecast .490 round ball and .015 TC patches lubed with Wonder Lube..

 Got all my ammo ready to took it out this evening and fired 6 shots.  My first shot was perfect, reloaded and took another shot. #2 puzzled me until i found the patches.

 I learned today that this rifle wants a cool barrel to shoot. If i just shoot and reload and shoot, the warm barrel tears up the patches badly. On a cool barrel, theres just a little bit of burn through that i can live with, Especially after the results from today!

Oops. would be good if i mentioned it was 113 yards laser ranged.

I marked shots 1 & 2.  The other 4, well you can see where they landed 


The ol CVA Hawken .50cal built in 1987 is still shooting them sweetly!
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Re: A hawken day
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2009, 01:32:55 PM »
Awesome, BB...did you swab between shots?  Also, is it a new barrel?
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Re: A hawken day
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2009, 01:58:37 PM »
nope! No swabbing at all. It just wanted a cool down between each shot. Barrel is the factory barrel that came on the rifle in 1987. The crown has a good deal of wear from the ramrod but its still shooting good.
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Re: A hawken day
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2009, 04:21:26 PM »
That's some good shootin friend  ;) ;)
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