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I was out of ffg for my T/C 54 Renegade and could not find any in town so the sales clerk suggested h777 and I sceptically used it and boy howdy was I impressed it did not give that farmilar stink and cleaned up really nice I think i am going to stick with it. I like the clean up part so nice!
 
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Be carefull the 777 is a quite a bit hotter per volume than Pyrodex RS or Black Powder. I have used 777 and so far am not impressed with it over Pyrodex RS IMHO.

BTW when shooting 777 your muzzle-loader will need to be cleaned unlike the Savage that will use smokeless powder.

Good luck and have fun shooting


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Posts: 1608 | Location: Central, Kansas | Registered: 15 January 2003Reply With Quote
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I have been using the "777" for 3 years now. I find that it gets very consistent with higher charges. I chronographed my loads in my T/C Encore using Barnes 250 grain expnaders, 120 grains of loose "777" and my low has been 2214fps and a high of 2217. At 130 grains there is similar deviation but the increase in FPS is small. I do not remember the exact numbers but it is only around 2230. This load shoot under 1" at 100 yards all day. I have an Omega that shoots the same load just as accurate. I have not chronographed that yet but in the longer barrell it should be slightly faster. The only down side I found is the "crud" ring that develops at about the point where the top of the charge sits in the barrel. Breaks clean easily but makes loading more than 2 rounds without cleaning a challenge.
 
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