Hunting right now with my 54 Renegade. Enjoying the sunrise. With my T/C’s my accuracy improved by leaps and bounds when I gave away my Pyrodex, Pyrodex Select an 777, replacing it with REAL bp.
By far my best performance was realized with No Excuses conical bullets. I also switched my nipple and went to musket caps. I shoot two 54’s, a Renegade and T/C Hawken. Both prefer 105 grains . I also shoot a gorgeous 50 cal Hawken. It too prefers No Excuses bullets and 100 grains of bp. My 45 cal Seneca cut groups in half with 80 grains of bp and a Hornady Great Plains bullet that’s no longer made.
Go find som FFG and shoot the real stuff it was made to shoot. But cleanup is so messy! Nope….not at all. No need for boiling soapy water, etc. clean with Windex Vingear formulation. Your bore will be spotless. I quit the soap suds 25 years ago based on Mike Venturino’s recommendation. Not one speck of rust in all that time.
