Well, after a long day in Denver yesterday and an injection right into a bulged disk, I felt pretty good this morning! A bulged disk pinching a nerve was causing severe muscle spasms and as I found out this morning, my horrible left leg pain that made me limp for the past year. That shot made me want to crawl out of my skin! when he hit the nerve, it felt like someone has cut me open and poured hot boiling water into my and it ran all the way to the tips of my fingers.

With me feeling so good, I grabbed up my CVA Hawken .58cal and headed out with a box full of powder,balls, patches and my new liquid patch lube I made to try out. Super happy with how the lube loaded after all of the shots, and accuracy was great as well.

I shot 75 yards off of shooting sticks "Sitting down position" with nothing to rest my back on.

I used both 70 grains and 80 grains Jim Shockeys Gold Super Powder, .020" patch soaked in my new lube and lightly run between my finger and thumb to wipe off excess, home cast .570" round balls. Each one loaded as if it was a clean bore and that was exactly what I was hoping for.

In the end I took 36 shots before I tired out. I don't want to push myself to hard, you have to let the shots slowly settle in. But I am beat! Its been quite some time since I loaded and shot the Hawken that many times in a day lol.


80gr loads were actually hitting a little lower. 70gr JSG SP shoots best out of the rifle so far and is very easy on recoil. No hang fires during this shooting event either.

Pretty good shooting for open sights at 75 yds.

Good shooting Jon.

Great shooting Jon!

So you didn't swab at all between shots?

How is that powder power wise relative to pyrodex, and other powders?

I think its around Pyrodex in power, but am not 100% sure until I run it over a chrony.

Yes, no swabbing whatsoever, the lubed patch pretty much washes down the bore as you load. A little slickness in the lube to aid in ease of loading. I can do a video down the road but for now, I'll keep testing when I am able to. I have one more ingredient coming in to try out.

great shooting ....that's a lot of shots lol

Real good shooting.

have you ever used equal parts of hydrogen peroxide ,rubbing alcchol and murphys oil soap on your patches?

I did some chronograph work with several powders in my .58 a few years back. Here are the results.

That's some mighty fine shooting Devil. And .58's are a hoot to shoot.

I can believe you had enough after 36 shots. That's a lot of shooting with a frontstuffer. I had a range session today with a .54. After three sight in shots and 30 shots on target I called it quits also. But then, I'm a bit older than you and my batteries don't hold the charge they used to.