Cayugad, I have had this Hawkins since 1977. Used to shoot it a lot with round balls and T/C Maxi hunters (I think that was the name of that big chunk of lead.) but work sort of got me away from ML shooting and hunting.
When work finally settled down I bought a T/C plains rifle and installed the T/C quick mount system and an old Weaver K4 I had. Never was much shucks with dove tailed sights, now with my eyes getting older dove tails are impossiable much past 5 feet.
The buff. bullets were left over from that.
Since I happen to love Remington model 700rifles I had to have one when they hit the market. My main rifle during two ML seasons (UPPER & LOWERhere in Michigan. I do like the hawkins though and drag it with me where ever I go to hunt. Just never shoot it more than a couple times a year but with all the others acting up during the lower season this yearI took it out.

[:@]I don't care for this APP at all. I had nice groups with the 700 useing clean shot before the law suit. This stuff is the first batch I bought after the law suit. I found sabots still full of this stuff unburned from my 700. groups were all over my target and other peoples too I think. I didn't clean at all between shots today or yesterday. With the first batch of clean shot I bought I shot over 30 times at one sitting with out cleaning the bore on my 700. So I did love the stuff then
I now use t7 when I am serious about groups. Plan on trying some of the other stuff too by next season. My dealer no longer carries gorex or any other black powder due to storage needs and to be honest he didn't sell that much any more.

Thanks for all the help.
Al