ORIGINAL: Semisane
That's good to hear guys. Trying to decide whether to get a 1 in 60 or a 1 in 32on my Christmas .54 Great Plains flinter.
Now, what about patched round balls. Would you call a1 in 32" twist "good","just OK", or "not so good"?
I have a .58 with a 1/60" twist and it shoots the Lyman 570-grain, 57730 Minie Ball very accurately at 100 yards with 120 grains of FFg. It is a flintlock fullstock Hawken-style. MV is 1200 FPS (36" bbl). Needless to say, recoil is "noticeable"
Lyman 57730, 570-grain bullet between two .45/70 rounds