CliffordN
Well-Known Member
A few years back, my TC 50 cal was about as accurate as could be, using three pellets and Shockwave 250 grain projectiles. Then MS changed the regulations for the primitive season, and most of us switched over to using modern centerfire rifles. The 35 Whelen option was just too tempting...
My move to Nashville opened up the world of using the muzzleloader again. So I drug the front loader out of mothballs, and went to the range last year, where I discovered that I couldn't get six inch groups out of the same set up, using fresh pellets. When I addressed this here last year several people caught the part where I mentioned using bore butter on the sabots...
I could not remember if I had included it in my shot regimen before. But my thought process had been making the loading process easier, seasoning the bore, etc... And I never got back to the range after reading those comments, because regular firearms season opened, and I put the other barrle back on.
The barrel has been meticulously cleaned after every use, and has probably had less than 50 rounds through it over the entire lifetime...
Could the bore butter really be causing the total loss of accuracy? And will the sabots actually load readily without using it? I would like to feel more confident that I could hit the vitals of a whitetail at more than about 50 yards again...
And it is time to hit the range once more.
My move to Nashville opened up the world of using the muzzleloader again. So I drug the front loader out of mothballs, and went to the range last year, where I discovered that I couldn't get six inch groups out of the same set up, using fresh pellets. When I addressed this here last year several people caught the part where I mentioned using bore butter on the sabots...
I could not remember if I had included it in my shot regimen before. But my thought process had been making the loading process easier, seasoning the bore, etc... And I never got back to the range after reading those comments, because regular firearms season opened, and I put the other barrle back on.
The barrel has been meticulously cleaned after every use, and has probably had less than 50 rounds through it over the entire lifetime...
Could the bore butter really be causing the total loss of accuracy? And will the sabots actually load readily without using it? I would like to feel more confident that I could hit the vitals of a whitetail at more than about 50 yards again...
And it is time to hit the range once more.