deer hunting with muzzleloaders

[brybenn]

What's everyone pushing down their front stuffers these days?

I use platinum power belts but they're getting hard to find and coming close to $3.75 a piece
My backup gun has new sights since a buddy broke the rear last year so I'm looking for a load for it to play with since it's much more accurate than the one I generally carry

 

[savagelh]

I've had good luck with the hornady sst's. Killed a few animals with them.

 

[EDJ]

Barnes Spit-fire TMZ 290 grain

 

[Mount Sweetness]

250gr TC Shockwaves with yellow smooth glide

 

[mbogo3]

.54 home cast lead ball/100gr FFG/Green Mt 1-70 twist TC Renegade

 

[T.James]

Precision Rifle- Dead Center made in Manitoba
https://www.prbullet.com/pts.htm

 

[kc34]

250gr TC Shockwaves with yellow smooth glide

I use these as well and they seem to do the trick.

 

[69firebird]

.458 cal Hornady interlocks

 

[theDuck]

0.495 home cast round ball and patch ahead of 65grains of FFFG.

 

[Devin_07]

I spent time living in Virginia and hunted with Hornady 250gr SST's in the red Sabot, very easy to load and grouped excellent for me. I was also using the CCI 209M primers and 110gr of blackhorn 209 (Have not looked for it in Canada though).

https://www.cabelas.ca/product/9197/hornady-sst-high-speedlow-drag-muzzleloading-bullets-w-sabots

 

[brybenn]

I've been thinking of trying lead. It's cheap for all season fun if I can Group3" or better at 100 yards ill use it for hunting. Most of my shots have been measured in feet not yards. Average shot for me is less than 15 yards so pretty much anything will work but I do like to play
I tried Hornady sst with out sabots they have the hollow base and none of my 4 muzzleloaders will group better than 5" at 25 yards
I prefer full bore over sabots but I'm willing to experiment

 

[brybenn]

.458 cal Hornady interlocks

Do you use a wrap or sabot? All I have are 50 cals

 

[hunter148]

Precision Rifle- Dead Center made in Manitoba
https://www.prbullet.com/pts.htm

All I can say is try the above they are accurate and devastating. The 195grn duplex out of my Encore shoot where you point every time

Adding the recipe I use 195gr Duplex, 100grn loose FFF Triple 7, lit with either a large or small rifle primer depending on what gun. Encore uses small rifle primers, 3 Knights use large rifle primers as they don't sell the small adapters any longer. In short the rifle primers will not unseat bullets like shotgun primers and it virtually eliminates flyers if you load consistently.

 

[69firebird]

Do you use a wrap or sabot? All I have are 50 cals

Sabot- ordered them out of the US. Orange sabots can't think of the company right now

 

[Dogleg]

I use a couple Savage muzzleloaders, both with 300 grain SSTs and black MMPs in the one and the supplied red ones in the other.42 grains of SR4759 in both. Usually the easy load sabots are junk with smokeless, but I tried them for the heck of it one day on my 4th savage and darned if it didn't shoot just as well as the tight ones. I'd have bet against that.

We've shot coyotes to moose with that bullet and haven't recovered one yet. They hit like a .300.

 

[mossyhorns]

.458 Barnes Originals and crush rib sabots over 75g (weight) of blackhorn 209. Out of a TC Prohunter.

My bullet supply is dwindling so if anyone knows where I can find some let me know.

 

[colonel3006]

The 250 gr Hornady SST's shoot awesome out of my cheapo CVA wolf.

 

[brybenn]

All I can say is try the above they are accurate and devastating. The 195grn duplex out of my Encore shoot where you point every time

Tried to order them online and it doesn't allow a Canadian address. The country field is stuck on USA as the only option

 

[Russ]

Canadian customers please order via our
toll free order line.
1-877-828-5538

On the home page.

Russ...

 

[Bigbubba]

2 pellets of 777
A 240 gr .44 cal jhp bullet in a .50 cal sabot
Works great