I'm new to the forum and am very interested in getting one of these guns. With the right load, can this thing shoot consistent groups? What is it's effective range?

[ 12-08-2002, 01:16: Message edited by: Mike M. ]

hey there mike basicaly your looking at a 2 1/2" groups at 50 yards you might be able to squeeze off the half inch but iv only seen it done maybe 2 times

i bought 1 of these for my uncle from texas

he uses 150grns of fg black powder 15 thou patch and a ball 10thou under bore dia with a home made felt wad dipped in bore butter he took a deer this year at 70 yards right behind the shoulder the doe droped to the shot.

Mike: I have had a Kodiak in .58 and one in .72, which was the more accurate. At 50 yards, I was able to get a ragged hole group of four shots, two rights, two lefts, with just the rearmost sight. I would have to check, but I think the load was 130 grains Goex FFg, .715 RB and .015 Ox-Yoke lubed patch. Conicals were accurate from each barrel, but needed more work and both rear sights for groups from each barrel to be all snuggled together. I suspect accuracy may vary from one rifle to the next. I sure miss that .72.

I just purchased one from another board member and couldn't be happier. It is more accurate than what I expected and a 535gr RB has to do some serious damage with all that mass & large metplat.
I used a .019" pillow ticking patch with Crisco as lube and a 100gr (volume) charge of H777 FFg.
My father & I shot both the left & right barrels with their respective sights and our groups were identical (and tight).

I have one in .54, and it does not seem to shoot as well as these folks" .72's.