Vent liners are a little percussion cap type nipple, only they sit on the breech plugs inner end. Easy to change, and not that expensive. Maybe $5.00. Something to check. That's a drop in the bucket considering the cost of say 50 bullets with sabots, powder and primers. Shouldn't be a deal breaker. I have no idea how long they do last. I just changed mine at around 28 because I thought it was the thing to do. It was still shooting fine. Maybe you could shoot a couple of hundred before it really needs changing. I just didn't want to take chances on the one shot that would count.
Inline muzzle loaders
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Here's a quote from Randy Wakeman I found on the net about a particular powder 10MLII's:
Accurate Arms 5744 is also clean burning. After over 300 shots, it took only two patches of Hoppe’s #9 solvent soaked patches over a brass brush to clean the bore. The third patch extracted no fouling residue; the fourth (dry) came out snowy white. No plastic fouling was present. Accurate Arms 5744 is also very easy on the breech plug vent-liner, in terms of erosion. After well over 320 shots, there was no appreciable vent-liner wear—and the groups remained sub one inch at 100 yards. No charge was ever used exceeding 50 grains by weight, with the majority at 46 or 47 grains. Finally, after all these shots, I was able to unscrew the breech plug by hand, with finger pressure only.
Accurate Arms 5744 is also clean burning. After over 300 shots, it took only two patches of Hoppe’s #9 solvent soaked patches over a brass brush to clean the bore. The third patch extracted no fouling residue; the fourth (dry) came out snowy white. No plastic fouling was present. Accurate Arms 5744 is also very easy on the breech plug vent-liner, in terms of erosion. After well over 320 shots, there was no appreciable vent-liner wear—and the groups remained sub one inch at 100 yards. No charge was ever used exceeding 50 grains by weight, with the majority at 46 or 47 grains. Finally, after all these shots, I was able to unscrew the breech plug by hand, with finger pressure only.
2 or 3 bucks. I got a pile of them from PB but have never changed one. That's well into the hundreds.
