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Deerhuntingguy

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Northeast Ohio
Hey,Merry Christmas happy New Year to all, Any owners on here with the tc impact?
Thinking about picking one up,my 10 yr old cva, seems to have a trigger issue, time to retire it...
Any,all thoughts appreciated,
 
Same to you man!

I have one, it'll alright. Gets the job done and hits good enough. It's no competition shooting ML by any means, but hits good enough. 3" groups with mine @125 yard shooting 3-50 gram pellets and STT red tip bullets.
 
I love the impact. I run 90 gr of BH 209 behind a 250 gr Barnes ballistic tip boat tail w/ EZ load Sabot. I read about the combo in a chuckhawks article by Randy Wakeman, and had success with it so never changed.

http://www.chuckhawks.com/thompson_impact.htm

I do shoot a bit low a 200, so might experiment with more powder to flatten the trajectory
 
Thanks for the input,yep good article,read the same one, while the heavy snow fell here last week.
Don't want to spend a boat load of $$$, on a gun I only use 2-3 days out of a year,Iam normally tagged out,long before those dates,but the crazy warm weather in nov, then durning gun week- work schedule,just didn't happen
So it's front stuffer time!...my cva has been good to me over the yrs, but it's do to be a lamp holder or something else now
Iam not messing with the trigger now,
 
Yes! Gotta touchy,feely for sure,traditions didn't feel rite,cva only one I found was a wolf,not too bad,compact ,lite
Wanted stainless tho, tc seem to balance well,cheek was good,had a black diamond some time back,but was over bored,took it back,got the cva,now looking again,tc makes good stuff, going Friday after work, to have a gander at. That bruiser is still on my property!,thank god, he's a smart one...one last chance at him...not to keen on sitting in the woods again with the excaliber,gets cold fast
 
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For a couple days a year make it fun. Get a T/C Hawkens or Renegade .50 cal and shoot real black powder with open sights. I killed a deer with mine at 130 yards with a patched round ball. Think of it like going from a compound to a recurve. Its a blast and will take you back in time with that sitting on your lap out in the snow covered woods.
 
Qback5 said:
Good luck with your new purchase. Maybe go to a store and see how each feels?
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Back when I was looking to buy I went and held the TC Impact - I was really hoping it would be the one but that flat triangular type fore end just didn't feel right. I really wanted to have a TC but was too cheap to buy the upper end.
 
GoetsTalon said:
For a couple days a year make it fun. Get a T/C Hawkens or Renegade .50 cal and shoot real black powder with open sights. I killed a deer with mine at 130 yards with a patched round ball. Think of it like going from a compound to a recurve. Its a blast and will take you back in time with that sitting on your lap out in the snow covered woods.
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I like your way of thinking! Actually, JohnRohio told me he is doing this exact same thing this weekend, going patch 'n' ball with his old muzzy.
 
Dannmann801 said:
I like your way of thinking! Actually, JohnRohio told me he is doing this exact same thing this weekend, going patch 'n' ball with his old muzzy.
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The new in-lines are cool and (well not new,been out for a while lol) and shoot a shitload of powder and can kill out to 200 yards plus but there is something about using the old school hawken style guns. I found out that the best powder to use is just regular FF black powder. Mine is dead nuts out to 100 yards which is all the distance i need. 90 grains with a patched round ball works great in mt T/C Renegade hunter. Its hard to pretend that your Jeremiah Johnson carrying a scoped inline with 150 grains of pellets with some new fangled bullet sitting on top lol.
 
Side locks are fun, I had a cva white tails unlimited,50cal,I bought off a work buddy, he won in a raffle
Took #11 caps, sold it early last summer,couldn't see front sight, if it would have been drilled,tapped,I would have kept it
My eyes need optics...
 
I appreciate what many are saying about patch and ball. Growing up in PA, the muzzleloader season was a flintlock only season (they now have modern muzzy season in October for anterless, but the post-Christmas flintlock season remains). Oh the deer drives we did. In particularly wet weather, the "click"..."click"..."click, swish...", re-prime, "click, swish", reprime "click, swish, BOOM"...it about drove us crazy. We had a ton of fun and filled the freezer and enjoyed it, but after years of it I certainly appreciate the conveniences of a modern muzzy! I'm sure someday I will rock the flintlock again for kicks.
 
Dan is correct, I've had a ball this year playing with that old gun. I couldn't tell you the last time I deer hunted with any gun, let alone that old hawken. For some reason I dusted it off and chose to get it out this year for general gun season. I have yet to kill anything with it but, I'm on a mission now.


 
JOHNROHIO said:
Dan is correct, I've had a ball this year playing with that old gun. I couldn't tell you the last time I deer hunted with any gun, let alone that old hawken. For some reason I dusted it off and chose to get it out this year for general gun season. I have yet to kill anything with it but, I'm on a mission now.
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You bringing it this Sunday?
 
Dannmann801 said:
Back when I was looking to buy I went and held the TC Impact - I was really hoping it would be the one but that flat triangular type fore end just didn't feel right. I really wanted to have a TC but was too cheap to buy the upper end.
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Dan, did you pick up a Knight? Wolverine?


 
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