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Muzzle Loader Bullets

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#1 ·
What kind of Muzzle loading bullets or sabots do you shoot and why? .50 or .45 sabot?
 
#7 ·
50 caliber,Round, dead soft lead. Wrapped in a greased patch, loaded over 90 gns.3f or 2f Goex blackpowder. Killed Southern Whitetail from 25 out to 100yds. No lost critters, no need to track blood trails...just shoot'em, then go pick'em up.
Your experience may differ...this is mine.
 
#8 ·
I use my Encore for elk. I find the 300 gr. T/C Shock Wave (I am led to beleive the are made by Hornady) with the Harvester Crush Rib sabot to be the most accurate, easiest to load and deadly on elk. May be a bit over kill for deer but they make a 250 gr. that should be ideal for the smaller animal. I use 130 gr. of loose T-7 with a Rem 209 ML primer.

This load shoots better than I can and rivals my center fire rifles to 250 yards.

HBT
 
#9 ·
I've only owned my 50-cal T/C Omega for one hunting season and haven't taken any game with it but did try a few different loads in it. The 250-grain Hornady SST/ML bullet was more accurate than the T/C Shockwave and Triple-7 powder gave better groups than Pyrodex. I use the Hornady bullet and sabot over three Triple-7 pellets sparked by a Federal 209A primer and get 1.5" three-shot 100-yard groups at just over 2,200 fps.

Ed
 
#12 ·
I have cut up two deer shot with Power Belts. In both cases there were dozens of bullet fragments, the bullet did not hold together. Both had poor shot placement but that does happen. I have used the .44 cal 240g Hornady XTP with a sabot sleeve in a .50 cal. rifler. I had two one shot kills at 100 yds, both times the bullet passed through.
 
#15 ·
58 CAL. Zouave 500 GR. civil war lead minne ball .. 75 gr's ffg.
go-ex black powder ... Deer /// Bear /// Elk ... you hit it and
it's gonna be there until you're ready to pick it up .
No wonder the civil took so many lives ..58 cal. civil war
muskets are deadly & damn accurate . This rifle = 2'' groups
at 100 yrd's everytime > all the time ... deadly accurate.

Win
 
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