ORIGINAL: yeoman
Cayugad - good shooting.
I think that's the first post I've seen from you where your 1st bullet went low rather than high. Do you find that with PRB or did you foul the barrel? Also, isn't the Tradions Hawken a 1:48 twist and if it is, what made you choose it over one of your slower twist guns for the test? Could that also make a difference in the patch clean out?
The low hits I blame on the lube. Actually if you examine hits 1-5 they are all technically low. All in about a three inch group mind you, but still low. I think the lube had a lot to do with that.
As for the twist in my Traditional Woodsman Hawkins ... it is a 1-66 twist. Many years when they first came out with the Woodsman, it was a 1-66 twist. I really did not need another Hawkins but Sportsman's Guide was selling the rifles for (if memory serves me) $139.95 and so I could not pass that up. This little Hawkins is a roundball shooting rascal. With a strong powder charge it really does put them down range well.
Traditions later changed the Hawkin Woodsman to a 1:48 which has no interest to me at all. While I am sure they are good shooters, I have too many of that twist rifles around the house already.
Actually my White is another one that throws a low one when you shoot on a clean barrel.