alleyyooper are you popping some caps through that rifle before loading it to make sure the fire channel is nice and clear? Also are you swabbing between shots or every other shot? If you are swabbing, I will guess that the swab solution is gumming up the works. Try swabbing with pure isopropyl alcohol and be sure and run two even three dry patches after the MOIST NOT DAMPswab. Many times the swab is too wet and it soaks into the fowling and kind of pushed it back against the area of the fire channel and that causes hang fires and misfires. When it hang fires sometimes you will pull the trigger, lift your head up off the stock even, and then it goes off. Also with APP you should not have to swab all that often. That is a clean burning powder.

If your Hawkins has a 1-48 twist perhaps a different kind of projectile might be in order, like a roundball or a short conical. The yellow Buffalo Bullet sabots come in so many different weights it is hard to say which ones you were shooting.

Actually that first and second group of the day look real good. It looks like you are going to have a real good shooter. If the APP keeps acting up, try and get your hands on a pound of Goex Black Powder... it will solve a lot of hangfire and misfire problems. Also a red hot/hot shot nipple will help too if you have not changed over from the factory one. I never shoot a factory nipple. I always put a hot shot nipple on .....

Keep shooting . .. it is doing real good. Unless of course you don't like shooting black powder rifles..