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You should be good then with a little bit heaver bullet. But you might have to tweek it a little bit to get them to a great group. But that is the problem with shooting with open sights, a 3" group is equal to a sub moa group with a scope on a rifle.

idcwby, What is your powder charge with the lighter bullets? I know that with the TC 430 grain maxi balls I had to drop my charge down to 90 grains to start getting great groups.

I haven't but I have a friend who uses them in his. 50 cal and likes them on elk..I've heard mixed reviews from others who have tried them on elk, they say that the jacket is too thin

The big thing is not to let the knife get covered with blood and fat. At least wipe it down after you use it and if you have water available a quick wipe down with a wet rag will help a lot.

I can't remember seeing a hollow point mold, I have seen them for pistol rounds but not rifle that I can remember. I know that the last deer that I shot with my .54 I blew out half of his rib cage on the off side. This was with the 430 grain maxi ball. I was surprised when he made it about...

If you would like I could ship you some of the ones that I cast and then you can try them out to see how your rifle shoots them if you don't want to jump right into casting them yourself. The ones that I have don't look too pretty since it has been a while since I have cast any but I can...

Lyman has a small selection of molds. I usually do a search for ".54 caliber bullet molds" A lot of the results that come up will only be for .50 caliber but if you weed through them you can find some different .54 ones. Here is a .54 plains bullet, I know that the picture says .45 but if...

It is a temperature type of thing. I use a Colman stove and a old cast iron pot to melt the lead in. Then the first few bullets that you make you dump back into the melting pot, they are just to warm up the mold. Then once you get to where you are getting clean shinny bullets with no lines or...

Here is a mold on Ebay right now, it ends Sunday https://www.ebay.com/itm/303754784794 Here is some more things to check out that I came up with on a search https://thea.com/Molds-54-Caliber/

It's got very slim pickings. What unit did you end up drawing?

I decided to play with one the other day, they told me to go screw myself.

Now that's a snake. I have a funny story about seeing my first one way back when I was still in the single digits.

I had to play around with my loads until I found one that the bullet liked. I started out shooting 100 or so grains of Pyrodex and while it shot fairly well I was missing animals with it. I finally settled on 90 grains of Pyrodex and it started shooting a lot better. I learned that those...

I've been loading my .54 with TC 430 grain maxi-balls. I purchased a mold for it long ago and have a good supply of pure lead. I have shot a couple of elk with it and they do quite well at 100 yards or less. I wouldn't even think of shooting a elk with a round ball. I just did a search on...

Here is a short read that I got from CP&W tonight concerning wolves here in Colorado. https://cpw.state.co.us/Documents/WildlifeSpecies/Mammals/Information%20on%20Wolves%20and%20QA%20FINAL.pdf

A woman went to the doctor's office and was seen by one of the new young doctors. After about four minutes in the examination room, she started screaming and ran down the hall. An older doctor stopped her and asked what the problem was, and she told him her story. After listening, he told her...