ratslayer said:
The peek is not my problem sometimes I flinch if the nipple is fowled and i get a delay.I need a botle of compressed air to blow it out every once and awhile.Is that what you guys use to blow out the nipple ?
I am going to try and give you a heads up here! I am not sure what you are shooting as powder but I have a .50 Traditions. I made a sight adjustment after about 25 shots. when I put about a 100 +or- shots thru and few other changes I made a final adjustment that was basically a tweak!
I am not saying that it doesn't take a fair amount of shots to wear the roughness out of the lands barrel, which will tear patches and affect accuracy but if you make small adjustments you can get a lot closer to sighted in too begin with! I guess what I am saying is the gun was fairly accurate right out of the box!
I tried a sub,it produced a large amount of fouling and I could not get consistent hits with a sub, no matter what I tried!
I swithched too GOEX 2FF and have never looked back. I also use Hoppes 9 Plus Black Powder Solvent & Patch Lubricant as a lube.
The next thing I learned while still using a sub. I usually wipe about every third shot. Like I said the sub produced a huge amount of fouling, if I wiped in one motion
all that fouling is pushed into the patient breech, and eventually into the nipple. Traditions and CVA have the same type of patient breech, the drum thread into the barrel and into the breech plug. A design that if you are having fouling problems it will push that fouling through and out the nipple eventually!
I have a mark on my ramrod that indicates the dead on the bottom unloaded. I wipe with this method using three different patches , first wipe 1/3 of the barrel, second wipe 2/3's of the barrel, and third wipe and
always with a clean patch, the last 1/3 of the barrel.
The last thing to learn when sighting in a new muzzle loader is
change only one thing at a time!
Whether that one thing be, grains of powder, lube, patch, bullet, wiping methods an adjustment of the sights, etc., etc. After making that one change fire at least five rounds and see what difference that one change made.
The next thing is breathing when making that shot. I practice the same thing no matter what I am shooting.
Breath in breath out breath in and on the exhale I squeeze the trigger. Follow thru is important too. Most likely you ain't going to see where the shot hit with the smoke from a muzzle loader anyway so when you squeeze off the shot stay with your head glued to the stock and eyes on the sights. If you don't practice this you get in the habit of jerking your head away to see the shot and eventually you will get too the point of doing this while making the shot.
Traditions gets a bad rap but I look at it this way. The lower price allowed me to get into this madness. I now own one more and am thinking of a third. When it comes too the gun. If I do my part the gun will do it's part and on a good day I will put my accuracy up against any other brand.
I get a case of CRS every now an then.
