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Thunderhawks, didja say? music to me ears.

have 4 of them, use 3 pretty regularly:


the top 2 are .50's, the bottom a .54...they are about my favorite inlines, been shooting them for years, killed a whole pile of deer with my guns.

i've had best luck as far as accuracy goes with medium heavy slugs in the .50's. my favorite is the Barnes 250 grain .44 in hornady sabots, followed by the Hornady 265 .44FP, and the Speer .44 270 gold dot.

accuracy fell off a wee bit with super heavy powder charges i pretty much use 100 grains (volume) Pyrodex Triple-7 as my standard load. with those bullets you'll plow through both shoulders & i never saw the need for more oomph.

The .54 is pretty light with that tupperware stock, has some enthusiastic recoil with heavy slugs. was using 45cal Hornady 300gr XTP's in sabots for that one.

Great little guns, good luck with yours.
Gerald