Smokepole.I just got done coverting my TC BD to std irons w/peep.The supplied FO sight was too high and I bought one that was too low. Cut the fO off and soldered a blade on 1/16" thick just the right heigth.
My hawkin for some reason went south this past year.Blowing maxiballs all over the place. It has been rebarreled once. The only thing different was I prelube the maxiballs with bore butter that you use to be able to buy in plastic jar. Heat it in a microwave and then set the bullets in. Then "cookie cutter" them out.
I prefer the hawkin, just bought the inline when I drew a Bonney deer tag a few years ago and the hawkin was back at TC getting rebarrled
Hi saddlesore, I also have a T/C Hawken .50 and shot and hunted with it a lot. A number of years ago it's patterns suddenly and inexplicably widened up when nothing else had changed. Since it is difficult to actually "shoot out" a barrel, there had to be a different explanation, especially since the change was not gradual.
I had done a lot of range shooting with blackpowder, not a substitute, and of course, there are few rounds possible between cleanings. I forced the issue, and recalled great difficulty in loading one charge. Turns out I did not seat the MaxiBall all the way, and on firing, actually bulged the bore. Took a little while to figure it out, but the sudden slippage of a tight cleaning patch and discovery of the external bulge in the barrel proved it all.