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    First deer harvested with a muzzle loader

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    First deer harvested with a muzzle loader

    CVA hawken .50 .490 round ball, .010" patching with a over powder wad and 80gr of swiss 2F. I'll upload a picture from my phone after this post. Branden
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    First deer harvested with a muzzle loader

    Yeah, he's got something going on there, i've got the head in the back of the truck now, going to do a european mount, so i'll figure out what's going on with it as I skin out the head and try to get all the tissue removed. Branden
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    First deer harvested with a muzzle loader

    Update: I got back Sunday morning early to retrieve him and there wasn't any signs of predators. Nothing even touched the gut pile. Got down to 19 degrees overnight, so he was pretty well frozen solid. I did tie a t-shirt around his antler as a deterrent. Went to the spot where I was sitting...
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    First deer harvested with a muzzle loader

    Got my first deer with a muzzle loader. Haven't hunted in nearly a decade, and finally got on the ball to go this year. Opening day, about 30min before dark, and this guy comes strolling by. .490 round ball and 80gr of swiss, he dropped in his tracks. Gutted him and stashed him, hes too...
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    Terrible accuracy ?!

    Try out some over powder wads as well. My CVA hawken shot PRB's alright with .015 patches, but I didn't like how hard they were to seat. So I went to a .010 patch and they were easier to seat, but the patches were getting blown apart, and the accuracy wasn't great. I started putting over...
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    Are Swiss and Schuetzen the same powder?

    Fouling never concerned me because i've always run a spit patch down between shots to wipe a bulk of the fouling out. Branden
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    Are Swiss and Schuetzen the same powder?

    I think that must be where i'm thinking they're made in the same place, the importing company. I have a few pounds of swiss that I got a while ago, but I recently got 10lbs of Schuetzen that I haven't tried yet as I figured they were very similar, if not identical. Old Eynesford is a premium...
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    Are Swiss and Schuetzen the same powder?

    Like the title says, are they the same? They're both made by the same company in the same factory, so are they kinda like a Ford Escort and Mercury Topaz type thing? Same BP, different label? Or is it more a Schuetzen is the Swiss rejected powder deal? Branden
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I wish I had a chronograph to check the velocity, but judging by the recoil, noise, and how much it moved the steel plate, I'm certain it's more than adequate for missouri deer as well. I was gonna shoot again yesterday, but I was sore of heck after getting back from the go kart track. I just...
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    I finally brought out the 'ol girl (CVA Hawken .50) to see how she likes the real black powder. Swiss 2F. Had some new neighbor's that needed to get broken in to the experience of living next to me. Ran several dry patches to start, then soaked one in denatured alcohol to make sure all the...
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    Lee R.E.A.L. 320gr bullets, powder charge ?

    My 1:48 hawken preferred heavy charges. I need to double check my notes, but iirc it was 90gr of pyrodex, and no over powder wad. Lighter loads yielded poor accuracy, as did wad usage. Heavy charges and no wad gave me good accuracy of around the 1 1/4" range at 50 yards. As with everything...
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    Sounds like a scam, please advise

    I'm late to the party, and haven't read through the replies so i'm sure you've found a solution, but Powdervalley has musket caps in stock, a little on the pricey side at $120/1K, but they're available. You'll have to source replacement nipples to run the musket caps, but that shouldn't be too...
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    Educate me on the advantage of a Gain twist rifling

    Modern rifles using smokeless, and heavy for caliber bullets can reduce the peak pressures a bit using gain twist rifling. I know several shooters shooting the ELR (extreme long range) competitions that use gain twist to shoot out to 2 miles and beyond. They need fast twist rates to stabilize...
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    Traditions Hawkens accuracy help.

    I had accuracy issues with mine with a .010" patch. I like the slightly looser patch as it's easier to seat in my rifle cause I don't want to have to hammer the ball down the bore. Mine tightened up substantially when I started using ox yoke wonder wads over the powder. My loading procedure is...
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    Trying out Lee real 360gr cast lead bullets for the first time

    I shooting standing off a tripod, pretty close to the way that i'd be shooting it while hunting. The sights that are on my rifle are a bit of a limiting factor, they make it difficult to be ultra precise on the aiming point, they aren't like a magnified optic that makes it very easy to break...
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    Ignition woes

    Great video, I didn't think to hit the side to help move powder into the drum, that's a good idea. I'm using Pyrodex BTW. I need to bite the bullet and order real BP and have it shipped to me. I have a source for Swiss, but anyone have a source that has Goex, Eynsford, or Schuetzen that has...
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    Fiber wad ober powder question

    1/8" works for me too. I use a looser patch (.010") with .490" round balls. The patches get shredded pretty fierce without a wad, pretty much blown apart, and the accuracy looks like a shotgun. As soon as I started using a wad, and dropped my powder charge a hair, I got really great accuracy...
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    Ignition woes

    Oh man...that really explains it, I had no idea that's how it was, and that makes a whole lot of sense! Alright, when I clean the rifle here in a bit from todays shooting (I did a cursory cleaning, not a full cleaning yet), i'm going to use a .22 bore brush with a patch to get that little...
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    Ignition woes

    I've been having some ignition problems with my CVA hawken. I'm using CCI #11 caps that are new, but whenever I go to shoot my rifle for the first time of the day, it takes a few caps before i'll finally get the charge to go off. Now when I get ready to load the rifle, I run 2 dry patches to...
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