bronko22000

Well yesterday I finally got to shoot the T/C Hawken flinter I assembled from parts purchsed on Ebay. The RMC Accusporter barrel is something that I never had and was new to me. It had a i:48 twist so I rounded up some 250 gr REAL bullets, some 240 gr PA conicals, 275 gr Maxi hunters and some .490round balls and patches.I set up a target at 50 yds and fired two rounds of the REAL bullets.Went up to check and both were about 1/2" apart at 6 o'clock about 3" low.
I adjusted the sights, swabbed the bore and proceeded to fire four more REALs. I went up to the target and all four were clustered into about a 1 1/2" group an inch above center.
No need to shoot any other bullets. I was shooting the 250 REALS with 90 gr of 3F and using a felt patch between powder and bullet.
This is my spare flinter but good to know it will shoot well if I need it.

cayugad

If I had a flinter that shot real bullets that well, it might not be my spare flinter for long.. nice shooting. Sounds like an interesting rifle you put together there.

rafsob

Sounds like you gota great shooter there. Why did you stop at the R.E.A.L bullets??? Keep going and check the rest of the bullets yagot and find out whatit really likes. You may have just seen thetip of the iceberg. And ohyeah,haveabunch of fun!!!

Whatdistance wasyour target?

bronko22000

hey cayugad, glad to see you're still alive. We were all worried about you. Not hearing from you in a while.
As for shooting other bullets, I probably will someday. But at least for now I know what it will shoot. And I have about 1000 or so REALs, and they are soooo easy to load.