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Topic: Muzzleloaders Posted: 13 June 2003 at 02:28
Hey guys, in a couple of weeks i am going to order my first muzzleloader. Its going to be the Cabelas Kentucky Rifle in percussion form. The rifle is sooo beautiful. I am going to use patch and ball on whitetails, and the Hornady Great Plains bullet on boar and Elk. I hope these combonations of projectiles are both dead on without having to change the sights. The gun is a .50 cal. New Hampshire has a 2 week muzzleloading deer season, so i will have it, and be accurate with it, well before deer season starts. If i like it enough, then i that may be my go to gun for all of my close quarters hunting.
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Posted: 13 June 2003 at 02:37
nh- hunter check and see what the twist rate is. i goes something like this . 1-66 for round ball. 1-46 for conical bullets like the the great plans and 1-18 i think for sabots. i shoot the 455 gr maxi hunter fron t/c out of my new englander. shoots great.
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Posted: 13 June 2003 at 03:25
Hey Mr. Mom, the twist rate is the compromise 1:48. I have been reading a lot and the twist can shoot patch and ball and conicals well, but not sabots. I wasnt going to use sabots anyways.
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Posted: 13 June 2003 at 05:06
nh-hunter : the only thing about the sabots is that it fouls the barrel more. you will have to scrub about every shot to get the next 1 in there. next time i fire up the pot i wil make ya some. what caliber you getten?? i shoot 54 with a 455 gr. and the 50 mold is a 355 gr. i make then for some of the people here. when i do it i grease the bullet . then i wrap it with seliphane wrap and tie the off with thread. i keep them in a skoal can and keep my powder in little plastic contaners that drill bits come in. all mesured out. just dump it in and shove in the bullet.
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Posted: 13 June 2003 at 08:29
hey nh_hunter: no problem . let me know. i have 2 molds in 50 cal. 1 is the t/c maxi hunter in 355 gr and i have a lee real bullet in 250 gr. the best thing is to try diffrent bullets. like i said i have a t/c new englander in 54 and my buddy has a t/c renigade in 54. mine shoots then realy good and his dosnt. his shoots lee real bullet in 300 gr and mine wouldnt.??????? they are both the same twist.
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Posted: 13 June 2003 at 08:33
one other thing you should look at in the muzzel loader is seeif it has a coil spring or a leaf spring. cva have the leaf spring and they go weak t/c has a coil and no problems. my brother missed 3 deer because the hammer wouldnt go all the way because there was not snap in the leaf on his cva.
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