Osborne Russell
32 Cal
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- Mar 14, 2021
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Hi everybody,
Fairly new to muzzleloading. This will be my first year chasing elk with my Traditions Hawken Woodsman. Love this gun, but I'm having issues getting my hunting load down. Quick history, bought the thing, changed out to a musket nipple (since musket caps were the only thing I could get my hands on at the time) and started off shooting PRBs over Triple 7 FFG. Seems like it did fine the first few times at the range, but then I started having ignition problems where the cap would go off but the charge wouldn't. I would have to unscrew the nipple and put some powder in the drum, and then it would set the charge off fine. I switched to Pyrodex FFFG just because I thought a finer powder would help. Worked fine, and I began trying to get my No Excuses 460s to group. Tried 60, 70, and 80 grains. 70 grouped best, but it was still like a 3.5 inch group at 50 yards. Used my powder scale to try and tighten that up, didn't really help. Decided to try the T7 FFG and it grouped beautifully at 70 grains, but began misfiring again. I'm kind of lost on what my next step should be. Is it possible I just have a bad batch of T7? Do I start investigating my flash channel somehow? Anyone experience anything like this?
Fairly new to muzzleloading. This will be my first year chasing elk with my Traditions Hawken Woodsman. Love this gun, but I'm having issues getting my hunting load down. Quick history, bought the thing, changed out to a musket nipple (since musket caps were the only thing I could get my hands on at the time) and started off shooting PRBs over Triple 7 FFG. Seems like it did fine the first few times at the range, but then I started having ignition problems where the cap would go off but the charge wouldn't. I would have to unscrew the nipple and put some powder in the drum, and then it would set the charge off fine. I switched to Pyrodex FFFG just because I thought a finer powder would help. Worked fine, and I began trying to get my No Excuses 460s to group. Tried 60, 70, and 80 grains. 70 grouped best, but it was still like a 3.5 inch group at 50 yards. Used my powder scale to try and tighten that up, didn't really help. Decided to try the T7 FFG and it grouped beautifully at 70 grains, but began misfiring again. I'm kind of lost on what my next step should be. Is it possible I just have a bad batch of T7? Do I start investigating my flash channel somehow? Anyone experience anything like this?