Adult Onset Idiot

[Hem]

I've killed a few muleys and a moose with traditional.
Good to 100 yds with the traditional, shooting a .50 cal conical. Very consistent, but open sights are becoming a challenge with aging eyes.
Love my scoped Thompson Contender in-line. So far I have harvested only whitetail bucks with this setup.

 

[R.K.]

Who marks a ram rod? Just keep hammerin

To check if it's already loaded. You drop in the rod and look at the mark.

 

[pyrotechnic]

To check if it's already loaded. You drop in the rod and look at the mark.

Negative.....you pull the trigger.

 

[Stocker]

I feel horrible for you that your life has taken this turn for the worse, that you’ve found yourself in a place where you’ve thought a muzzleloader would be fun and effective to hunt with.

They say time heals all wounds but not the mental and emotional trauma that muzzleloader hunting produces.


Do what anyone who kills anything during a muzzleloader season does. Take a rifle, and just use the muzzleloader for pics and stuff.

 

[R.K.]

Negative.....you pull the trigger.

Spoken like someone that has never trusted their dad when he said it’s loaded, and then promptly missed the only shot of the season because the gun was not, in fact, loaded.

 

[Buckbrush]

bore butter is a must IMO.

Don't use bore butter with sabots. They make the bore to slick and the plastic won't grip the rifling. Took me quite a while to figure out why my gun was spraying bullets everywhere. Love bore butter fore everything else.

 

[MThuntr]

Watch out that rifle with sabots isn't legal for many state's muzzleloader or weapons restricted areas.

 

[Hem]

Don't use bore butter with sabots. They make the bore to slick and the plastic won't grip the rifling. Took me quite a while to figure out why my gun was spraying bullets everywhere. Love bore butter fore everything else.

I use it for seasoning.
Not for lubrication.

 

[Stocker]

Don't use bore butter with sabots. They make the bore to slick and the plastic won't grip the rifling. Took me quite a while to figure out why my gun was spraying bullets everywhere. Love bore butter fore everything else.

This explains a lot of my troubles with muzzleloaders. I didn’t know that.



I still hate them.

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

I feel horrible for you that your life has taken this turn for the worse, that you’ve found yourself in a place where you’ve thought a muzzleloader would be fun and effective to hunt with.

They say time heals all wounds but not the mental and emotional trauma that muzzleloader hunting produces.


Do what anyone who kills anything during a muzzleloader season does. Take a rifle, and just use the muzzleloader for pics and stuff.

“Oh, it’s just in case I see a bear/coyote”

Sure it is Bill, sure it is.

 

[Addicting]

Bore butter is a waste of money.

 

[Nick87]

Bore butter is a waste of money.

Has been my experience as well.

 

[Buckbrush]

I like it for rust protection. I think it lasts longer than oil.

 

[Nicoli7153]

Has been my experience as well.

I think it's great for a rust preventer inside the bore and on the outside for off season storage, just my experience. I use patched round balls exclusively though.

 

[gouch]

Bore butter is a waste of money.

But it smells good.

 

[Addicting]

I like it for rust protection. I think it lasts longer than oil.

Problem is if you don’t get it all out of your bore loose powder sticks to it and gets ruined. I’ve had it where it had just enough moisture left to cause a hang fire. Quit using it after that and plain old Remington gun oil works just fine without any residue.

 

[CowboyLeroy]

It's like archery hunting, but with an open ended pipe bomb. You'll love it.

Side note. Go ahead and buy the blackhorn 209, and a digital scale. Consistency is key

 

[JoltnJoe]

Bob Parker is a stand up fellow and makes solid bullets so you’re off to a good start there. Muzzle loading is a fun addiction, they have so much more individual personalities than rifles… enjoy!

 

[Buckbrush]

Problem is if you don’t get it all out of your bore loose powder sticks to it and gets ruined. I’ve had it where it had just enough moisture left to cause a hang fire. Quit using it after that and plain old Remington gun oil works just fine without any residue.

I won't use it in my muzzy at all. It shoots sabots, legal in ut.
Had to use brake cleaner to get it all out of the bore before it would start putting good groups with the sabots. Couldn't figure out why it would shoot the plain conical bullets well but not the sabots.
When I first got it it was shooting them just fine. Light bulb it's the bore butter turning it into a smoothbore. But for my cartridge guns and bolt lube for the m1a I like it.

 

[Hem]

Never once had issue with Bore Butter.
If you clean out your barrel properly there won't be powder sticking.
How much butter does it take to make a smooth bore?