falcon

Fired my TC New Englander late last week. The load was the 320 grain Maxi Ball over a grease cookie and 100 Grains of Pyrodex RS. Primer was Winchester #11 magnum.

To make a long story short my groups stunk. Best group at 50 yards was about 2 1/4 inches. Reduced the powder load to 80 grains and the groups still stunk. Thought there was something wrong with the sight picture. Today i found at least part of the problem. The rear sight has a shallow v with a small vertical notch. The small vertical notch is obscured by the sight adjustment screw.

MountainDevil54

never had much luck with the REALs in the 1:28 twist, your groups are still a LOT better than what i get with them. Put them in a 1:32 or 1:48 twist and now you are talkin!

Oops i just noticed you said maxiball., my bad!

Did you try wads with them?

cayugad

My T/C New Englander with the 1-48 twist barrel shoots maxiball with 70 grains of powder and no wad. But it really shines with roundball. Even sabots.

wabi

My NewEnglander (1:48) does fair with patched ball, good with Lee REAL (250gr and 320gr), and great with a MMP orange sabot & 350gr .458 bullet.

I usually shoot 80gr of Goex ffg with most of the different projectiles.

UncleNorby

My friend's 54 cal NE shot great with 435 MaxiBalls over 90 and 100 gr Pyrodex. No wad.