Toledo Armas 12 GA single barrel for T/C Arms.

[Adam Helmer]

Yesterday, I acquired a single barrel 12 GA tube for the T/C Hawken or Renegade. The price was right and now the tube resides on a caplock .50 T/C Hawken. My other shotgun is a .50 caliber smoothbore barrel on a T/C flintlock. (about 28 gauge).

I test fired the Toledo 12 gauge barrel on the .54 Renegade caplock and the Hawken .50 caplock and it was great. I tried fiber wads, card wads and plastic AA wads with much good data. Interestingly, across the valley, about 400 yards away was a strutting gobbler and 12 hens in the pasture as I tested shot loads for our Spring Gobbler season which opens April 30.

I use 75 grains of 2F Goex, and the charger load of #6 shot. That is about a 2 3/4-1 1/8-#6, or a 35 yard BP turkey load. The turkeys are nearby and now I need to practice my calling technique.

Adam