Good starter kit for Hawken cap

Kodiakk

December 17, 2009 15:15

Bought a 50 cal Hawken percussion. I'm pretty confused on what to buy start shooting it and I don't know or trust any gun shops near me to get me started on the basic supplies without trying to sell me stuff I don't need. I don't need anything fancy to start out with. I'll be using it for strictly hunting.

Anyone got any links to decent starter kits?

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  allen griggs

  December 17, 2009 16:01

  I have killed a lot of deer and hogs with that same rifle.
  Use .490 patched round balls and 80 grains of ffg black powder.
  I used the pillow ticking patches from dixiegun.com
  You need a brass powder measure.
  I lube the patches with Old Zip patch lube from Dixie, it is the same mix the pioneers used, works great and smell good too.
  Made of mutton tallow.
  
  I'm inferring that this is your first muzzleloader.
  Shell out 21 bucks for the Lyman Black Powder Handbook.
  
  http://www.lymanproducts.com/lyman/publications/black-powder.php

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  tomahawk

  December 21, 2009 08:46

  get a few speed loaders..they are plastic and will keep your charge ball and patch ,and cap all together...they are cheap and 3 or 4 can be carried while hunting
  
  my .50 likes 92 grains of ffg black powder, no 11 percussion caps. i make my own patches and soak them in crisco shortening , melted ,that i hock from the wife
  
  so in essence
  
  .490 balls,powder, #11caps, patches, speed loaders, powder measure,nipple wrench and pick, and a small screw driver.... cram all this into some kind of pouch and your ready[;)]

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