[Loggy]

(1) What 54 caliber flinter ya shootin?

(2) What make barrel(if custom gun)?

(3) What barrel twist?(Provide any info re: lands and grooves, if round bottom grooves, rifling depth, etc. if known)

(4)) What roundball do you prefer: .530, 535 or other projectile??

(5) What diameter patch & what lube?

Thanks much!!

 

[long hunter]

Custom Early Reading .54 built by C.Laubach

40 inch swamped Getz barrel 1-66 twist, square bottom

.530 ball 18 thou. pillow tick patch

Bear grease, deer tallow/neatsfoot oil mix or mink oil for hunting. Target or woods walk shooting usually just spit patch.

 

[TPlank]

Bobby Hoyt custom barrel, swamped.
1:60 twist
an elongated roundball with a hollow point.

 

[Loggy]

...an elongated roundball with a hollow point.

No wunder ya can't hit nuttin!!

 

[jimsdad]

Pedersoli Blue Ridge. 1 in 66 ROT. 530 Hornady ball and .10 patch. Crisco lubed. Someday I hope that Jim Chambers ships me the rest of my rifle kit and I can start my build. Someday....

 

[octagon]

Not yet, but hopefully this year a TVM Early Virginia in .54

 

[Retiredusne8]

...an elongated roundball with a hollow point.

No wunder ya can't hit nuttin!!

Who's shirt tail did I see a picture of on here?

 

[Bunky]

<span style="color: #000000"> 54 Cal. Lancaster (Jacob Dickert 1770s style)

Rice 44" swamped C weight 1:66 twist competition grade

1:66 twist

530 roundball


5 patch with Lehigh Valley Lube or Bore Butter
Plan on trying beeswax and honey?</span>

 

[Loggy]

Who's shirt tail did I see a picture of on here?

Musta been Soupes!! Thats one of the last ones i recollect!!

 

[TPlank]

That pic of soupe is just plain freaky. That devilish look on his face is just not right.

 

[Bunky]

It almost looks like he is enjoying it tooooo much Plank!

 

[TPlank]

It almost looks like he is enjoying it tooooo much Plank!

Yeah.... you see what I mean. It just isn't right.

 

[brewyak]

Have a 54 cal on order should be another 3months or so. Colonial Va made by Cabincreek

 

[wis bang]

Dad's old T/C remegade 1:48 still using the T/C patches and speer roundballs he had...the old crisco is nasty!

Also use T/C .430 grn. maxi hunters.

Enjoy using both.

 

[soupe]

All I noticed was the actual sweat soaked hunting shirt($3 walmart) and some serious ADD ers getting off track on the thread.
So my .54 LymanDeer Stalker has a 1/48 twist and shoots .535 round balls with.15 patch most reliably.
Maxi balls ok and Powerbelts ok but they tend to wander.
Plank told me several years ago my barrel is oversized.

 

[FarmerHunter]

1.- PA Mountain Rifle by Brad Emig from Cabin Creek
- TC Renegade
- D. Pedersoli Kentucky pistol

2.-Colerain 38" swamped C profile,
-Green Mtn. drop-in 32"
-Pedersoli? 10"

3.-1:56, radius grooved
-1:70, square grooves
-1:30? square

4. Still trying dif. things in all of them. Some .526, .530 and .535 balls. Patches are .01 - .02. A .530 ball and .015 patch seems to work pretty well in all of them.

5.Patch diameter is about 1 3/8".

I use all 'wonder lubed' patches from Oxyoke or Eastern Mtn.

 

[longfellow]

Haines: 38" Getz barrel 1/66 twist square bottom rifling.

English sporting rifle: 31" Getz barrel 1/72 twist round bottom rifling.

Use olive oil and beeswax lube on .018 pillow ticking cut round and square with 530 and 535 round balls.

Other guns not 54 caliber:
Sharps 45/70 BPCR
10 gage double barrel shotgun
32 T/C caplock GM barrel
32 CVA 50 converted to 32 cal.
62 TVM smooth bore fowler

 

[TPlank]

All I noticed was the actual sweat soaked hunting shirt($3 walmart) and some serious ADD ers getting off track on the thread.
So my .54 LymanDeer Stalker has a 1/48 twist and shoots .535 round balls with.15 patch most reliably.
Maxi balls ok and Powerbelts ok but they tend to wander.
Plank told me several years ago my barrel is oversized.

Not oversized but it doesn't grip the sides enough for maxis or powerbelts.

 

[bowhuntr1]

(York County School ) George Shroyer
46" Getz Swamped Barrel 1:66 Twist Square Bottom
530 Roundball with .018 Pillow Ticking with Wonder Lube

 

[Loggy]

1.- PA Mountain Rifle by Brad Emig from Cabin Creek
- TC Renegade
- D. Pedersoli Kentucky pistol

2.-Colerain 38" swamped C profile,
-Green Mtn. drop-in 32"
-Pedersoli? 10"

3.-1:56, radius grooved
-1:70, square grooves
-1:30? square

4. Still trying dif. things in all of them. Some .526, .530 and .535 balls. Patches are .01 - .02. A .530 ball and .015 patch seems to work pretty well in all of them.

5.Patch diameter is about 1 3/8".

I use all 'wonder lubed' patches from Oxyoke or Eastern Mtn.

Hi FarmerHunter. Per us huntin together on the Late Season gathering.. i know we both have the same Brad Emig built PA Mountain Rifles. Ive been shooting the .535's vs the .530. They are very hard to load & im thinkin of going with the .530. I did shoot both but seemed to be blowin some patches with the .530's. Mebbie i'll try some .018 pillow ticking and see how they they shoot. My accuracy between the .530 & .535's were comparable but those darn patches sorta concerned me.

i just got off the phone with Brad & he said for competition shooting many go with the .535. He suggested a lubed wad over powder if I was still blowing patches with the .530's.

Thanks for all the great input guys!!