dead_eye

Hey, i have a .50 caliber hawkens gun and was shooting a 2 inch group at 100 yards with iron sights and round balls, i was just wondering what other people were shooting for groups and what they were shooting with their blackpowder guns.

cayugad

Most of my sidelocks will not do that good for me. I can average between a 3-4 inch group off a bench rest with my .50 & .54 calibers shooting a variety of different projectiles. My .58 caliber will do a much better job of grouping with 100 grains of Goex FFg and a .570 patched roundball. The .58 caliber has a 1:70 Green Mountain Barrel and has to be one of the most accurate of all my rifles.

My long distance shooting I am sure has a lot to do with the iron sights and old eyes... I really just do not see as well as I used to. Even though they claim corrected it is 20/20 somehow my eyes refuse to believe that.

Last winter I was able to keep all the shots at 100 yards in the bottom of a #2 coffee can off shooting sticks. I was real pleased with that group to be honest. Of course with the scoped rifles I can do a much better job. Even the RED DOTs seem very accurate.

MikeE51848

Great shooting, you should change your name to "Hawk_eye"! I can't even see a target at 100 yds![]

Triple Se7en

Is this a one-time occurence? Was that a random two-shot group? Do you lock down the rifle at your stand?

I'm having a hard time believing this!

gelarson

Although I have not shot that much yet I am happy with an 8" group at 100 with open sites. Hopefully that will improve abit though. 2 ' is very impressive.

dead_eye

It was a 3 shot group, and now that i think about it was probably more like 90/95 yards, but it was shooting consistantly like that for the 7 shots we took that day, we also set out some empty coleman gas canisters at the same distance and i hit them every shot i took at them. I dont know what u mean by" do you lock down the rifle at your stand".