blackhorn 209 first time user

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I own a CVA Accura .50 cal muzzleloader. I've traditionally been using triple seven or white hots pellets. I'm now moving over to Blackhorn loose powder 209 for the first time. More times than not, I've seen nothing while hunting, come back inside and popped out my sabot and 2 powder pellets for use at a later date. simple easy, cost effective and no mess.

What is everyone doing with loose 209 powder at the end of the hunting day? From what I have been reading, its not a simple process to simply unscrew the breach and allowing the unused powder to fall out as it gets stuck inside the breach plug grooves and makes it a pain in the ass to remove. Does anyone have any suggestions to remove unused 209 powder without firing the ML?
 
I guess shooting it would waste some expensive powder?taking it out is messy, probably would work though. And a screw won’t penetrate the bullet. Unscrew breech plug with muzzle aimed down and get a little dirty. Tap breech p. On barrel. A little extra trouble. You can do it.
 
Leave it loaded. I've done so for a year no issues. Clean barrel after use. While it doesn't or isn't supposed to attract moisture like other powders if you get the residue wet it will go to town corrosion wise even on stainless barrels where it got wet. Don't ask me how I know.

I have always popped 2 primers before I loaded to blow the breech plug clean from any oil and foul the barrel. Use federal 209 primers and never an issue.
 
I remove the breech plug and keep it in a small dehydrating container. I only lose minimal grains each time, and the barrel and chamber doen’t need cleaning. It’s been no trouble at all for me.
 
Depending what muzzleloader you have I shoot a Knight Moutaineer and I use T7 FFG I basically took a piece of tubing and had a machine shop cut threads and machine it down so it fit into my receiver and at the end of the day I just thread that in push powder and projectile out and use it again the next outing.
 
The here is 5 days, I leave it loaded and then dump at the end, wouldn't leave it until following year
 
Well if you want to obey transport and storage laws you can't leave a charge in the barrel unless you're travelling between hunting sites. I do know lots of guys don't follow that....whatever.

I unload it at the end of the day by unscrewing the plug and letting the powder fall to the ground. The plug is just a matter of tapping it against something (I use the plastic bed rail cover on the truck, and blowing in it a couple times. I don't re-use the powder because I wonder how that "crush" of seating the sabot may affect the powder. Probably not an issue a couple times but eventually I wonder if that changes where the sabot will hit. The sabot you can drive out with an extra long ramrod (I keep one in the truck just for this purpose). A friend of mine will re-use his sabots but I don't want to chance a shot being anything but perfect on that buck of a lifetime. Same for the powder.
 
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