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Last minute muzzleloader question??
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<blockquote data-quote="jakeway" data-source="post: 473641" data-attributes="member: 280"><p>As usual, Wildcat is right on. I would expect a significant change with a 209 primer, since in smokeless loads even changing from one brand of primer to another can make a slight difference, and you're moving to something with A LOT more heat. You should get higher pressures and velocity with the 209.</p><p></p><p>Then again, every muzzle-loader is different, and you have to shoot it to be sure. If I was in your situation, I'd hunt the morning with the #11, install the conversion at 10 am, test fire and adjust my sights at 11, and be back in the woods at noon. If I couldn't do all that, I'd wait to install the conversion until I could shoot it.</p><p></p><p>One time about 20 years ago I borrowed a friend's muzzleloader so my brother could use mine. I didn't have time to fire it, so I trusted that the owner had it sighted in properly. Shortly after daybreak I had a shot at a deer. Drew blood, but even though we had good tracking snow, the blood petered out after a couple hundred yards. I followed those tracks all morning, about two miles, before finally loosing the tracks when he mixed with a bunch of other deer. I vowed right then to never again go hunting with a gun and/or load that I hadn't personally tested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jakeway, post: 473641, member: 280"] As usual, Wildcat is right on. I would expect a significant change with a 209 primer, since in smokeless loads even changing from one brand of primer to another can make a slight difference, and you're moving to something with A LOT more heat. You should get higher pressures and velocity with the 209. Then again, every muzzle-loader is different, and you have to shoot it to be sure. If I was in your situation, I'd hunt the morning with the #11, install the conversion at 10 am, test fire and adjust my sights at 11, and be back in the woods at noon. If I couldn't do all that, I'd wait to install the conversion until I could shoot it. One time about 20 years ago I borrowed a friend's muzzleloader so my brother could use mine. I didn't have time to fire it, so I trusted that the owner had it sighted in properly. Shortly after daybreak I had a shot at a deer. Drew blood, but even though we had good tracking snow, the blood petered out after a couple hundred yards. I followed those tracks all morning, about two miles, before finally loosing the tracks when he mixed with a bunch of other deer. I vowed right then to never again go hunting with a gun and/or load that I hadn't personally tested. [/QUOTE]
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