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Congrats Matt!

It works! Jake at 25 yards, bang, no flop.

Looks great Matt!

I love the TSS! It gives me almost a many hits in the 30" at 40 yards as the HW7 started with. 301 hits with TSS vs 330 in the 1 1/2oz load of HW7 I was using.

I received my #9TSS shot yesterday. I got out to the range today to try it out. Please remember that this is a 20 gauge flintlock fowler with no choke, and I was looking to get the pattern filled in, not shoot farther. Most of my turkeys have been taken in the 25-30 yard range. Range is a measured 4...

Beautiful fowler! What wad are you able to get past the choke? I've found that the plastic wads don't provide a good gas seal for me without either a card wad or a pair of ox-yoke lubed felt wads under them. I have ordered some #9 TSS to try, when it arrives I'll post the results

I have tried virtually everything down the bore that fits, lol. I got true full choke patterns while playing with Federal Flitecontrol wads. They had to be shaved just a tad to fit my bore, and then re-stuffed just the way they came out of the federal hulls. My first shot at the pattern paper left a...

Thanks for all of the replies, you guys are great! If my math is correct, I am shooting the Fed HW #7 with 330 pellets in the load, and getting an average of 177 hits in 30" at 40 yards, This is 54%. If I even get %50 from 1 1/2oz of #9 TSS at the same range, I'd have over 100 more hits in the ...

Still trying to wrap my head around this whole TSS thing..... I handloaded for my 2 3/4" twelve gauge cartridge shotgun for years with a 1 3/8oz load of copper plated #5 lead. 79% pattern at 40 yards gave me 182 hits in 30", and bagged quite a few birds with that. Total pellets in that loa...

630!!!! Holy cow!!! Might just have to try 9's and 9.5's. Thanks for the reply crenshawco, and thanks for the gun comment

How many TSS #9.5s are there in 1 1/2oz?

Sorry I missed the 10" ring question. I just checked, and I am averaging 27 hits in the 10" at 40 yards with the Fed HW #7. That's why I limit my shots to 30 yards and under. At 30 yards it's over double the hits I get at 40. Pellet distribution is very even over the 30" from 20 yards...

Thanks GLS, I did build the fowler. I looked all over the site for blackpowder posts, and most of what I have seen deal with choked guns. I've found over the years of handloading shotshells that bismuth is different than lead, is different than steel, is different than Federal HW, etc. I'm mostly cu...

I've been shooting #7 Federal HW in my 20 gauge fowler, and I've taken a couple turkeys with it. There is no choke, and I do not want one, so even with the pellet count of 330 in the 1 1/2oz load I'm using, it gets pretty thin past 30 yards. Several shots again today at 40 yards gave me a 54% patter...

Looks great!!!!