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Originally Posted by Pappy348
Follow the gunmaker's recommendation. 777 gives more velocity (and pressure) than black. I hope you're loading that by volume!

100gr may be all the fun you'll want in that light rifle with that heavy slug.


Boy, 120 777 with a 350-400 grain bullet is a hell of a load in that lightweight gun. I agree.

I use 80 gns 777 in my firehawk. Have used 100 pyrodex regularly, but with that gun I shoot mostly sabot loads with 240 gns bullets.

FWIW, the Firehawk in stainless and wood is, IME & O, one of TC's finest ever.


Originally Posted by Archerhunter

Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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My load with the Maxi-Ball is 110gr of 777. It's a stout load but no where near the recoil of 110 gr of BH 209 in my Omega.
The Firehawk is a great gun very similar in design to the Black Diamond except the Firehawk is 1-38" twist and the Black Diamond is 1 in 28". The Firehawk came with a No 11 nipple but I put a Musket Cap nipple in it. It shoots lead conicals better than my Omega. But there are some new bullets out now like the Thor and Federal BOR-LOCK that I want to try so I may tinker with the charge.


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