02-25-2006, 03:29 AM
My advise is get an INLINE (what brand is just an oppinion/price issue, I have a cheep CVA), with 209 ignition. Shoot POWDER out of it, not pellets. I like the Powerbelts, some people like sabots but they leave plastic in your barrel (or so I've heard). Mine has a "bullet guiding muzzle" (the first 3/4" of the barrel is not riffled so you can start the bullet easy), that I find convienient.
Last year a Lady in our hunting party borrowed an inline without 209 ignition, and used pyrodex pellets. She never actualy got a shot at a Dear but at the end of the day when she was trying unload it, those caps just went pop, but didn't lite the pellets (this also happened the night before the opener on a target shooting session). When we got out the tools and pushed the load out the breech (one other GOOD reason to buy an inline) the back pellet was wet. It was almost like when she pushed the pellets down the barrel the first one acted like a squeege to scrape the moisture that had built up (or was left over from cleaning) on the side of the barrel. It seams if she had been using powder then there would have been no "squeege action" and the powder might have been easyer to lite.
One more thing, NO MAGNIFICATION on muzzleloaders used for hunting (big game at least) in Utah.
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Last year a Lady in our hunting party borrowed an inline without 209 ignition, and used pyrodex pellets. She never actualy got a shot at a Dear but at the end of the day when she was trying unload it, those caps just went pop, but didn't lite the pellets (this also happened the night before the opener on a target shooting session). When we got out the tools and pushed the load out the breech (one other GOOD reason to buy an inline) the back pellet was wet. It was almost like when she pushed the pellets down the barrel the first one acted like a squeege to scrape the moisture that had built up (or was left over from cleaning) on the side of the barrel. It seams if she had been using powder then there would have been no "squeege action" and the powder might have been easyer to lite.
One more thing, NO MAGNIFICATION on muzzleloaders used for hunting (big game at least) in Utah.
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