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Hawkins Hunter
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58 Cal.

Dolk












I fire the round in the middle, the conical (second from the left)
Left is .75 for my Brown Bess, then the .58 cal, then I think a .44 (I think)round ball, then a 7.62 bullet.

Pretty, How many grains of powder? Always wanted a .58.

I don't remember now.I'll look in my load note book when I get home, but I think I was shooting 110 of Pyrodex on a round ball.

Then I went to FFG standard black on these Hornaday bullets. They are huge and hollow pointed. I think it was 120 gr of FFG.

Problem is now, Hornaday stopped making the bullet and no one makes a bullet in .58. Round ball yes, but not conical bullet.

Lee make a mold for it and I think I'll get one. It's a 500 gr minie, and that would use about 100 to 130 gr I think. Probably start out at 100 grn.

Dolk

I make hollow base mini balls for my .58 1863 Springfield, why wouldn't they work in this rifle?

JYD your going to get me into black powder if you keep posting this stuff, that is a nice looking shooter.

Don't look at me, this is Dolks rifle, not mine. Don't worry, I will have something new to post soon enough

Junk Yard Dog wrote:Don't look at me, this is Dolks rifle, not mine. Don't worry, I will have something new to post soon enough

Apologies Dolk, though now I see it's a black powder conspiracy

YOu gotta give black powder a try. Its a very fun shooting sport all of its own. Pondering getting back into it again ;)

The only thing funner than shooting black powder guns is hunting with those muzzle stuffers

In the cartridge world it would be like combining shooting, reloading and collection all in one at the same time.

Dolk

dolk wrote:In the cartridge world it would be like combining shooting, reloading and collection all in one at the same time.

Dolk

Back in the day I had a .50 caliber Hawkins. I LOVED LOVED shooting black powder. When I went out to shoot by myself, it's what I often took with me. Even after hundreds and hundreds of rounds, I never grew tired of that "tink-BOOM" and having to wait a second for the smoke to clear so you could see where you hit on the target. I really want to pick up one up again, but it will really be tough to shoot here until I find an outdoor range or a very nice farmer. With my obsession over military surplus at the moment, black powder isn't high on the list, but...it is on the list!

That's a gorgeous one dolk!

Oh yoo hoo......MN fan...........
Tink boom....tink boom.......tink boom........:evil:

bunkysdad wrote:Oh yoo hoo......MN fan...........
Tink boom....tink boom.......tink boom........:evil:

Yes, you are very evil! That combined with the flyer I saw from Cabela's for $100 off black powder rifles, I am getting the urge to "tink-BOOM" again!

dolk sure has set a high standard though!

Here were I am if you want to hunt with a rifle then it's going to be a ML or nothing. A lot of guys have the modern in line ML's but some hunt with Hawkin's like this one, it also helps that there is a special ML only season.

I have hunted with both inlines and side locks. Now i hunt with a .54 cal inline bolt action and i love it to death. In washington where i go i pretty much have the whole woods to my self. Very rarely do i see anybody in the trees.

In the trees? What were they, blown up there by the deers arty fire?

MAybe? but i meant while hiking in the trees off of the road, not like tree sitters for white tails ...sorry i should have explained that better. Yes in washington there are trees on the hills and mountains and you have to hike through the trees to the spots to get to the deer. (usually). But there could be a few road hunters around.