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<blockquote data-quote="magna19" data-source="post: 2978842" data-attributes="member: 24646"><p>The only one that's not shot anymore would be my dads T/C Hawken Cougar 50 cal. muzzleloader. A friend bought 2 new T/C Hawken Cougars with the stainless trim back in the 80's and then week later decided to part with one. My dad bought it for 200 bucks and sighted it in for the upcoming black powder season and we discovered it was shooting 3 shot .5 MOA at 100 yds and almost all 5 shot groups under 1 MOA. After the inline M/L with optics became the norm a few years later it was put up for long term storage and hasn't been shot since. On one of my most memorable hunting trips ever, I took my dad on a lease near the Cimarron River on a doe day during a mid 80's muzzleloader season where he shot 1 of 2 does at about 60 yds from a small stand of grass we were sitting at next to a wheat field. The doe ran about a hundred yds in a full circle and dropped right where it stood seconds earlier. After ducking down and reloading the best he could for the cover, we noticed the other doe run off and stop on a uphill rise at the far end at an estimated 200-210 yds. Realizing it was legal for me to harvest the other doe and shooting in my first and only IHMSA league all summer I decided to take a shot at the doe. I set the trigger on the T/C Cougar that I have never shot before and held using a (front sight high) aiming method as I was doing with my Ruger BH 357 mag 180gr. silhouette load for the 200 yd. ram and sent the 44 cal. 240 gr. Hornady out of the T/C Hawken. The doe took a hit to the spine above the lungs and dropped instantly. My dad looked over and said DAM you hit it (I bet you couldn't do that again). I said yeah what did you think I was going to do. Walked it off to the downed animal at 212 yds. Never shot that gun again and probably never will. Maybe because I don't wont to clean it again or maybe because I'm afraid it wont live up to its legendary status. One thing is for sure if my dad was still alive shooting .5 MOA with that T/C Hawken Cougar with me, I would look over and say (I Love You Dad) bet you couldn't do that again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="magna19, post: 2978842, member: 24646"] The only one that's not shot anymore would be my dads T/C Hawken Cougar 50 cal. muzzleloader. A friend bought 2 new T/C Hawken Cougars with the stainless trim back in the 80's and then week later decided to part with one. My dad bought it for 200 bucks and sighted it in for the upcoming black powder season and we discovered it was shooting 3 shot .5 MOA at 100 yds and almost all 5 shot groups under 1 MOA. After the inline M/L with optics became the norm a few years later it was put up for long term storage and hasn't been shot since. On one of my most memorable hunting trips ever, I took my dad on a lease near the Cimarron River on a doe day during a mid 80's muzzleloader season where he shot 1 of 2 does at about 60 yds from a small stand of grass we were sitting at next to a wheat field. The doe ran about a hundred yds in a full circle and dropped right where it stood seconds earlier. After ducking down and reloading the best he could for the cover, we noticed the other doe run off and stop on a uphill rise at the far end at an estimated 200-210 yds. Realizing it was legal for me to harvest the other doe and shooting in my first and only IHMSA league all summer I decided to take a shot at the doe. I set the trigger on the T/C Cougar that I have never shot before and held using a (front sight high) aiming method as I was doing with my Ruger BH 357 mag 180gr. silhouette load for the 200 yd. ram and sent the 44 cal. 240 gr. Hornady out of the T/C Hawken. The doe took a hit to the spine above the lungs and dropped instantly. My dad looked over and said DAM you hit it (I bet you couldn't do that again). I said yeah what did you think I was going to do. Walked it off to the downed animal at 212 yds. Never shot that gun again and probably never will. Maybe because I don't wont to clean it again or maybe because I'm afraid it wont live up to its legendary status. One thing is for sure if my dad was still alive shooting .5 MOA with that T/C Hawken Cougar with me, I would look over and say (I Love You Dad) bet you couldn't do that again. [/QUOTE]
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