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Loading conicals?
lebhuntfish:
Thanks guy's, I will look again when I get home. But I think they are flat base bullets.
Stoker, you mentioned a wad, if im correct its lubercated as well and pretty much the same size as my bore, correct?
Hawk, I'm shooting a 50 caliber cva bobcat. Great shooting little gun. Im hoping to get my flintlock fixed up before long, but ill be hunting with my bobcat again this year. I killed a doe with it last year with a patched round ball. Black powder season opens the 23rd here in Missouri so im trying to get some shooting in!
Patrick
Hawkdancer:
Lubed felt wad over the powder may help with the flat base bullets. Like sealing a revolver. I use the Minie hollow base in my .58s, but both in my .50 T/C Hawken. Haven't made meat with it, but we only get one or two tags here. Got to start hunting harder, and maybe expanding down to Nebraska. I will check to see you has .50 cal wads.
Hawkdancer
Hawkdancer:
Patrick,
Track of TW has .50 cal felt wads, dry and lubed, about $9 per 100. For hunting, I think dry would be better, but on the range, lubed will probably be best. Help keep the bore a little cleaner, I think, smell better, too.
Hawkdancer
BowEd:
--- Quote from: lebhuntfish on December 11, 2017, 04:11:10 pm ---Thanks guy's, I will look again when I get home. But I think they are flat base bullets.
Stoker, you mentioned a wad, if im correct its lubercated as well and pretty much the same size as my bore, correct?
Hawk, I'm shooting a 50 caliber cva bobcat. Great shooting little gun. Im hoping to get my flintlock fixed up before long, but ill be hunting with my bobcat again this year. I killed a doe with it last year with a patched round ball. Black powder season opens the 23rd here in Missouri so im trying to get some shooting in!
Patrick
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Hello Pat...I only shot round ball too and still do if I want to shoot it but I thought some barrels were rifled with a tighter twist for conicals.Round ball shooting slower twist.[1 full twist in 66" if I'm correct].The added weight of the conicals just like arrows will shoot lower then too.Won't make a big diff on close shots I'm sure though.I shoot a .54 Johnny Browning Hawken capper.Use a .52 ball[227 grain] with a .10 pillow tick patch for more ease of loading but still plenty tight.Replaced barrel of stock with a 35" badger barrel from it's 30" original barrel specifically for shooting round ball.Very accurate also out to 100 yards.Hav'nt needed to shoot at a deer farther than that but pretty sure 100 yards is'nt the limit for accuracy yet.I've killed many a deer with just 60 grains of FF.
Don't know about CVA's rifling though so you'll have to target shoot it a bunch.
gifford:
Well Patrick, you say you are pleased with accuracy of a patched round ball in you Bobcat, you shot a deer last fall with it, so I'm of the group that says, 'if it ain't broke, don't mess with it'.
IIRC, the Bobcat barrel is 1:48 rate of twist so it's a compromise rate of twist. It should shoot both patched round ball and conicals equally well. I happen to favor patched round ball in my smoke poles.
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