Originally Posted by caplock

Last fall I bought an abused .50 cal Thunder Hawk, it had been put away dirty and still loaded by the original owner which left the barrel pitted even after lots of cleaning and scrubbing. I am finally starting to shoot the gun to see what it will do. I started out with 370gr maxi balls with 80,90, and 100gr. of goex 2f, best it would do is 2 inch goups at 30yds. Then I tried 240xtp at 70 and 80 grains still around 2 inch at thirty yards. Best so far is 295 gr power beltswith 80gr they will hold 1.5 inch groups at 60yds, ok but not great, maybe with pitting thats the best she'll do. What Are some of the better bullets for this gun? hoping to stick with Goex 2f as the powder but if you think of some other powder that works in this gun let me know. This is still a #11 cap rifle.