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Bullets are a tight fit
The barrel was cleaned by me the day before. The bore isn't pristine but it's far from bad. I do have a bore light I own modern firearms and have all the stuff to maintain them. And I wasn't trying to patch them. I was replying to an earlier post about using round balls. My round balls came in...- hopper055
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Bullets are a tight fit
Thank you to you and everyone else that replied to my question. I now understand that conical bullets are meant to be really tight and may have to be "massaged" to smaller tollerances for my barrel. I will probably try to reduce the diameter of the conicals to shoot what I have left. I do not...- hopper055
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Bullets are a tight fit
The maxi was hard to start. I couldn't even get the entire bottom skirt into the rifling. I've double checked and the barrel is marked .50cal and so are the maxis. I guess I'll just have to stick to patched balls and consider the money I spent on the maxis spent on education.- hopper055
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Bullets are a tight fit
I'm trying to load Maxi-Ball super penetration .50 caliber 320 grain bullets I bought at walmart. The original idea was to just use balls but I got a little excited about shooting it and bought what I thought would work at walmart. I plan to use patch strips so I can cut it off at the muzzle and...- hopper055
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Bullets are a tight fit
How tight are the bullets suppose to be in the barrel? After reading for days on how to properly shoot my muzzleloader. I went to test loads starting with 50 grains of black powder in my .50 cal 1-48 twist barrel. And when I went to use my short start I couldent get it started I ended up messing...- hopper055
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