45 &50 T/C Hawken rifles

[Nuclearcricket]

Way back in the 70's I shot goex 3f in my tc hawkens gun. 50 grs in the 50 for target work and 80 grs would put a ball thru any deer ever built out to about as far as you could hit one. One fella I shot with quite a bit shot 30 grs of 3f for target work, he usually did pretty good, but you could see the ball going to the target when the range got past 50 yds.

I go along with Don, I have a TC 50 flinter and use 50 gr for target and 70 to hunt with. I can not however make any comments on the effectiveness of the load on the deer here in PA as the largest thing I have been able to shoot in muzzle loader season was a gray squirrel. It did do a wonderful job on him, nice head shot out of a big oak tree.
Sam