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Old Bud called awhile back, i'll be muzzle loader hunting white tails up at his place in Kansas this year, shot a hell of a big 9pt up there last year with my bow, he was 22 wide and 24 tall, will be out at first light in the morning putting my old 58 cal Mike Adcock replica of an S Hawken rifle through it's paces, it boots a 58 cal round ball out at 1988 fps using 140gr FFG with extreme accuracy.

Cant wait to get started, rifle, bag and binos are leaned against the back door jamb.

There’s nothing like the smell of Real Black Powder burning when you touch that trigger!

You bet Buddy, I get double nostril hits of that all year long firing my Sharps rifles, this 58 belched out a 140gr smoke cloud at that big buck last time I mz hunted up there, when the smoke all drifted back over my face, there he lay stone dead 44 yards away, I hit him on the point of his right shoulder, the ball exited low offside ribcage, I haven't seen a bigger blood mat under an animal when I turned him over, those big round balls are deadly sombitches.

I still cant believe that ball exited a 260 lb buck deer smashing a shoulder going in at such high velocity.

That’d be pretty danged cool Gunner! I’d like to get into a 54 or 58 caliber hammer.

Get one Big B, you wont regret it.

We will have to talk. I always wanted one of those TC Big Boars. Not sure if you can still get them though.

I have a T/C Big Boar 58, it's got the prettiest stick of walnut i've ever seen on a T/C, accurate sombitch with patched round ball and 90 grains FFG.

I’d love to have one of those to go with my T/C Hawken .54
Mines a accurate sob too.

Yes, they aren't making anymore of them Buddy.

Gunner500

Pilgrim.....I do believe you busted that dude in the center of his shoulder!!

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I plan on doing the same thing when the season opens if the Good Lord lets me live that long!!

It's pretty tough to stop those bigger round balls.

I shoot a 600 ball in my 62 rifle, and it's a freight train. I haven't stopped one in water jugs, but I tried. They keep slipping out the sides at 5 jugs.

Scotty, if you want a sidelock with a big hole in the barrel, we can make that happen.

LOL, you bet Sharpsman, he was quartering a bit to me at 44 yards, that ball exited mid offside ribcage, he dropped, I hope you get on a big one up there this year too, good luck.

Dang, I've never tried to put round balls through the water jugs, I bet they blow the holy hell out of the first two or three they hit, I'm two for two drt's with this 58 cal rifle so far, cant get over how quick it kills.

That does sounds like a fun "to do". I haven't ever tried a round ball into jugs myself.

I need to try again with two flanking columns of jugs.

The plastic seems to steer the ball off course when it gets slowed some.

I’m pretty sure it’d go into Jug 6, but I have no idea if it’ll come out or not.

My rifle has a 46” barrel and I shoot 120gr 2F. They’re truckin’...and a 600 diameter ball is 324gr.

I had a TC Big Boar. Mine had problems. It would fire 3 shots well, 4th shot would hang, 5th shot would misfire reliably. I was swabbing between shots. No issues if I gave it a shot of CO2 from the "silent" discharger between shots but I didn't always want to lug that around with me. It wasn't extremely accurate, but it was adequately accurate with either PRB or 555 grain conicals. Eventually I sold it to a friend for his kid who just HAD to have one and offered me too much money ... enough to replace it with a TC Renegade .58 from their custom shop. It was QLA and never shot for sh*t. Swapped that for a .50 Renegade with QLA and had the same luck. Guess I don't learn fast. Wish I had another TC .58 but mine are gone and these days I'm ramping up to shoot a .54 GPR flintlock instead.

Once upon a time I looked at a .62.....ONCE! Then I started comparing the cost of roundball to .58....which I can order by the box (swaged) from Hornady in a box of .50 and THAT beat the whey out of the .62! I cast bullets for most of my life...since 1948 and I made an oath to myself that I will not cast another....as long as I can buy them! For some reason my back at 80 just ain't quite what it was at 50 when I could sit and cast all day!

I’m spoiled in that regard. I have a lot of lead and don’t mind casting, but Dixon’s Muzzleloading Shop is 15 minutes’ drive from my home. He has about anything I’d ever need on the shelf.

If the smell of black powder doesn't stir your loins, you need to take up knitting...Hard to beat a .58 Hawken as a BP big game hunting rifle.

This here .58 shoots mighty good!

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