500 yard muzzleloader

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Just watching the long range hunting show 'Best of the West"

They came up with an accurate inline ML rifle and high BC bullet for it that makes hits at 500 yards look easy.

British Columbia doesn't have any ML seasons, so I won't be buying one, but if you live in an area with ML seasons, you might want to check it out. At least the bullet, anyway. :)

I don't know if 500 yards with a ML is old news or not, as I've never been particularly interested in ML rifles except to shoot a few traditional ones will cap and ball and I thought it was fun as hell. :)
 
Personally, that program is pretty much just advertising propaganda making products look good so even a novice shooter will buy their endorsed equipment to try long range shooting on game.kind what the old Huskiemawmaw scopes are about.

However, I have been impressed with the accuracy of modern inline ML rifles. I'd have no issue at all going 200 or slightly further on game.
 
I shoot the 458 325gr hornady ftx at 2375fps in my savage smokeless ml. Parker makes some super high BC bullets but not sure where to get them.
 
The guys on long range pursuit make hits at 900+ yards with their muzzle loaders. If you got the gear and the skills have at er

There is this video but he had a longer shot on steel before cant find it now

 
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flyinlead said:
Bad bull muzzle loader eh? Yikes! thats like a .375 H&H plus an extra 400 fps!! Recoil would be just unreal!
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Pretty interesting rifles, built on Rem 700, Stevens 200, and Ruger No.1 actions. I wouldn't mind the no.1 , regardless of speed...

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really long range shooting at targets is pretty impressive. But extreme long range shooting at game is not my cup of tea. In a "hunting" situation where you are forced to take a long shot, you must decide if you are really capable and is it really necessary. I can see that. But if you go out with the idea you are going to take the longest shot you can on an animal, I don't like that idea.
 
I cannot see where you would be forced to take a really long shot at game, anywhere anytime. Stalk close enough to guarantee a solid and predictable hit. If you and your equipment can guarantee the hit at that range that is a lot different than being "forced".

If you are starving that bad and need the meat, trade that $4,000 rifle in for 5-8 years worth of meat!
 
mbogo3 said:
Whitworth during the civil War era made long range shots.............Harold
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In 1860, the British National Rifle Association held its first annual meeting at Wimbledon. Queen Victoria fired the first shot from a Whitworth rifle on a machine rest at 400 yards, and struck the bull's-eye 1-1/4 inch from its center.[3]
Britain was officially neutral during the American Civil War; however, private arms manufacturers were not required to remain neutral. The Whitworth Rifle Company, for example sold the rifle to the Confederacy. The Confederate soldiers that used these rifles were referred to as Whitworth Sharpshooters. They accompanied regular infantrymen, and were usually used to eliminate Union artillery gun crews.
According to popular accounts, on May 9, 1864, during the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Union General John Sedgwick was chiding some of his troops for lying down in a ditch to avoid Confederate sharpshooters at a range of around 800 to 1000 yards. Shots from Confederate Whitworth rifles, easily identifiable due to the shrill whistling noises their hexagonal bullets made in flight, caused members of his staff and artillerymen to duck for cover. Sedgwick strode around in the open and was quoted as saying, "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Although ashamed, his men continued to flinch and he repeated, "I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Just seconds later he fell forward with a bullet hole below his left eye. At least five Confederate soldiers would later claim that they had fired the fatal shot.
Earlier during the war, the Whitworth was responsible for another high-ranking death. On Sept 19, 1863, at the Battle of Chickamauga, an unnamed Confederate sharpshooter mortally wounded Union General William Lytle, who was leading a charge at the time.


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This will just help push muzzleloader only zones to cap lock/flinters only...perfect...In-lines are ghey...I owned one for a bit and took a couple deer and a bear.
 
blargon said:
Pretty interesting rifles, built on Rem 700, Stevens 200, and Ruger No.1 actions. I wouldn't mind the no.1 , regardless of speed...

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Shot and handled one, Rem 700 action. If I recall it used 140 grains of IMR4350....yikes!
This one used a special tool to insert a large rifle mag primer. It couldn't be removed after, something I didn't like. I've also seen and fired the Ultimates. Douglas bbl, one was Ruger action the other Rem 700 action, used 45 WinMag primed pistol brass for ignition and 250 gr of Pyrodex.
The Bad Bull literally spit fire about 5 ft out of the muzzle and lit the grass on fire, so my guess is there was some unburned powder present!!!
 
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