The 340 grain BoreDriver has been very accurate in my inline muzzleloaders, which shoot "Low Pressure Smokeless Loads in a 209 Factory Muzzleloader". A two DVD set is available on eBay, which features the load data I use.
I own a few TC inline rifles… but, I also build flintlocks and for me… getting close and taking an elk, deer, antelope or whatever is the challenge. The critters win most of the time, but when you can see the moisture on their nose hairs… it gets the heart rate up. However, like I always say… if you handed Daniel Boone a modern inline muzzleloader with a scope… he would damn sure use it.
Out of my decades of muzzleloader hunting. I never had any buck or doe run. From 30yd to 362yds. They dropped dead ! 235gr QT bullets and Blackhorn 209 powder
Stop with the Tony Knight inventing the inline Rifle!!! H&R had the break open inline Huntsman Muzzleloader in the 1970's You could get a 209 primer nipple for them back then also... Work just like the break open guns you buy form everyone else today.
Low Pressure 50 Caliber Smokeless Loads in a 209 Factory Muzzleloader, 2 DVD set | eBay These 2 DVDs contain a demonstration of using Low Pressure Smokeless Loads in a 50 caliber factory muzzleloader. Savage Arms proved over 20 years ago that a factory muzzleloader can use smokeless powder. A retired Science Teacher/Gunsmith/Inventor used a strain gauge glued to a rifle barrel and the Pressure Trace II computer interface to compare the pressures produced by Blackhorn209 propellant to pressures which can be produced by ten different smokeless powders. These ten smokeless powders do not contain the corrosive oxidizers which can rust a rifle barrel. The loads developed produced a pressure equal to or less than that of 84 grains by weight of Blackhorn209, which a common Black Powder substitute made up of 83% smokeless powder (nitrocellulose). However, Blackhorn209 does contain corrosive chemicals.
around 11 years ago my brothers and I went to Wyoming to hunt antelope and ran into the guy in the orange hat with the muzzle loader in his hands and didn't recognize him till I got home then dang it
I just ordered one of these in-lines (CVA Optima) to get an early start on deer season while the rut is still going on! However, how do you manage noise, such as the practice of flicking your ramrod down 3X after seating, to see if you get the "ting" sound and the bounce from a properly-seated bullet? Is that a luxury for just the range? Can an experienced muzzleloader manage the series of steps in the complete dark, by feel, such as by using tubes that contain pellets + bullet?
Load it at the truck or at home where you have light before you go hunting. You shouldn’t be worried about the noise of the loading the rifle. If you have already shot once then there’s no need be quiet while reloading, the deer will know you are there.
a bolt action muzzleloader is about as useful as putting mud tires of a V6 honda instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, hows about making a muzzleoader where the bullet, powder charge, and primer can be loaded safely from the rear of a breech load instead of shoving a stick down the barrel
@Deer and Deer Hunting dont get me wrong when the breech plug / break open muzzleloader was invented it was a good invention as is made unloading, cleaning , and bore sighting but.. the entire purpose of a bolt on a rifle is to chamber a cartridge by pushing it into the chamber at a precise constant distance from the lands What would of been better was for CVA to take that break open design and run with it make it better make it stronger, innovative that conept until all avenues are exuasted and by the end we would have an amazing modern muzzleloader with capabilities instead we get a bolt action muzzleloader that still needs to be loaded butt stock on the ground
The 340 grain BoreDriver has been very accurate in my inline muzzleloaders, which shoot "Low Pressure Smokeless Loads in a 209 Factory Muzzleloader". A two DVD set is available on eBay, which features the load data I use.
I own a few TC inline rifles… but, I also build flintlocks and for me… getting close and taking an elk, deer, antelope or whatever is the challenge. The critters win most of the time, but when you can see the moisture on their nose hairs… it gets the heart rate up.
However, like I always say… if you handed Daniel Boone a modern inline muzzleloader with a scope… he would damn sure use it.
Out of my decades of muzzleloader hunting. I never had any buck or doe run. From 30yd to 362yds. They dropped dead ! 235gr QT bullets and Blackhorn 209 powder
Stop with the Tony Knight inventing the inline Rifle!!! H&R had the break open inline Huntsman Muzzleloader in the 1970's You could get a 209 primer nipple for them back then also... Work just like the break open guns you buy form everyone else today.
Still use mine!
Low Pressure 50 Caliber Smokeless Loads in a 209 Factory Muzzleloader, 2 DVD set | eBay
These 2 DVDs contain a demonstration of using Low Pressure Smokeless Loads in a 50 caliber factory muzzleloader.
Savage Arms proved over 20 years ago that a factory muzzleloader can use smokeless powder. A retired Science Teacher/Gunsmith/Inventor used a strain gauge glued to a rifle barrel and the Pressure Trace II computer interface to compare the pressures produced by Blackhorn209 propellant to pressures which can be produced by ten different smokeless powders. These ten smokeless powders do not contain the corrosive oxidizers which can rust a rifle barrel.
The loads developed produced a pressure equal to or less than that of 84 grains by weight of Blackhorn209, which a common Black Powder substitute made up of 83% smokeless powder (nitrocellulose). However, Blackhorn209 does contain corrosive chemicals.
around 11 years ago my brothers and I went to Wyoming to hunt antelope and ran into the guy in the orange hat with the muzzle loader in his hands and didn't recognize him till I got home then dang it
So get a nuclear bunker to get close to deer lol
I just ordered one of these in-lines (CVA Optima) to get an early start on deer season while the rut is still going on! However, how do you manage noise, such as the practice of flicking your ramrod down 3X after seating, to see if you get the "ting" sound and the bounce from a properly-seated bullet? Is that a luxury for just the range? Can an experienced muzzleloader manage the series of steps in the complete dark, by feel, such as by using tubes that contain pellets + bullet?
Load it at the truck or at home where you have light before you go hunting. You shouldn’t be worried about the noise of the loading the rifle. If you have already shot once then there’s no need be quiet while reloading, the deer will know you are there.
You forgot the matchlock and the wheellock rifles. Spaniards had them in the 1400s.
At the end of the hunt do you have to shoot the round or can you unload the gun.
Better off just shooting it honestly
You unload it by holding your thumb on the hammer while pulling the trigger and slowly let the hammer back to uncocked position.
@@radumarginean969 that don’t unload shit lol load is still present
I usually remove the breech plug and push the load out with the ram rod.
I discard the powder and save the bullet.
save the powder and use for target practice....@@Hunting4Hookers
a bolt action muzzleloader is about as useful as putting mud tires of a V6 honda
instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, hows about making a muzzleoader where the bullet, powder charge, and primer can be loaded safely from the rear of a breech load instead of shoving a stick down the barrel
All we can say is "don't knock it until you've tried it."
@Deer and Deer Hunting dont get me wrong when the breech plug / break open muzzleloader was invented it was a good invention as is made unloading, cleaning , and bore sighting
but..
the entire purpose of a bolt on a rifle is to chamber a cartridge by pushing it into the chamber at a precise constant distance from the lands
What would of been better was for CVA to take that break open design and run with it make it better make it stronger, innovative that conept until all avenues are exuasted and by the end we would have an amazing modern muzzleloader with capabilities instead we get a bolt action muzzleloader that still needs to be loaded butt stock on the ground
Not really muzzle loading!!
Go smokeless, no smoke, most states allow it
Love me some muzz hunting! Good stuff !