Sabots & Powder?

[MK-M-GOBL]

Getting things ready for the range this morning, I found out that I only had a few (5 to be exact) Winchester 209 shotgun primers left so couldn’t hit the range today. Took a ride to Jim’s to pick up more & I totally spaced out & forgot them I did though pick up some new sabots & powder (new to me trying that is )


So has anyone tried the Harvester Muzzleloading Scorpion PT Gold & the Blackhorn 209 powder? I just picked up a pack of the 260gr Polymer Tip Bullets along with some of the black powder to give a try once I quit spacing out & buy primers

[NHGriff]

I hunt ole school as well. This year I switched to Hornady Great Plains bullets out of my T/C New Englander. They shoot better than the maxi hunters did.

Some time I'd like to hunt with all of the weapons of war that were put into sporter action after the war.
I'd start with post Revolutionary weapons here in New England. It would be cool to hunt ducks or bag a turkey with a flintlock shotgun. Or chase a New England whitetail with a rifle. I would dress in period clothing and really try to reenact how a returning patriot soldier would have hunted.

Next would be to head west and hunt mule deer like a post civil war soldier would have done in 1870 or so. Probably a cap and ball Great Plains style St. Louis rifle. Or go all Mountain man Jeremiah Johnson style and hunt like a soldier from the war of 1812. Many of those soldiers took their pension and went west to become fur traders until about the 1840's.

Next a returning GI from WWI and hunt with a M1903 Springfield or skip a war to the M1 Garand and hunt with an Auto. Or maybe use a Mauser 98? A battlefield trophy picked up and sent home along with a prized Luger.
Last would be to do a modern rifle hunt with an AR 15 style gun. I think about guys coming back from Iraq and how comfortable they must be carrying their AR's. A traditional sporter rifle would feel foreign after holding an AR for so long. Easy to see how that would be the hunting rifle of choice for any new returning service members.

Anyway...I was thinking it would make a cool book to chronicle each of those hunts and to assume the identity of a soldier in each war coming home to find peace in hunting the woods instead of other men on a battle field.

[firestormhtr]

Haven't tried that,I switched to tripple 7 and went from 295grain powerbelt to 245.shoots much better.

[NHGriff]

I'd love to find the New England Shotgun barrel that was offered for a couple of years. It was originally designed to be like a Contender where you could switch between the rifle barrel and a shotgun barrel all on a New England stock. I think that's why they were both round barrels. I guess everyone wanted Octagonal barrels though so they dropped the New Englander line in favor of Octagonals. Let me know if you want to hunt together during muzzle loader I can always come up there and help push an area to keep the deer moving about.

Jim

[MK-M-GOBL]

Knock it off you two Those days of shooting #11 caps or flint are over & gone!

Just busting guys ;D NHgriff...I've run into a guy down in WV several time over the years that hunts using flintlock shotguns that he makes. The guns I've seen him with are some real works of beauty He says getting them close under 25yards is a must & that even then the Kentucky windage is also a huge must with them all. He's got two 20ga. & three 12ga. flintlocks that he's made over the years. I keep meaning to stop by his house & talk more with him but I seem to forget everytime I'm down there.

[MK-M-GOBL]

Well I didn't care for either one Going back to my 300gr XTP with Triple 7

[MK-M-GOBL]

Could group but more than not group was the fouling I had in my gun. Getting my third load down was not as easy as they claim! I was swabbing between shot too

[wickedgoodoutdoors]

Mix up 50% Canola oil with a squirt of simple green or dish washing detergent and water and vinegar Its like salad dressing for your cotton patches and you use the same solution for cleaning out the bore.