I just wanted to say thanks to the board members who have responded to my posts or private messages. Especially 1874sharpshooter and edmehlig!
Four or five years ago I only owned one muzzleloader and I only used it as a teaching tool in my hunter education classes.
Thanks to Chet I own 3 more White Rifles and my buddy has a couple Knights and 3 Whites.
I pestered Chet with questions, which he always answered and we eventually bought several Whites from him.
In 2015 my buddy drew a Colorado muzzleloader bull tag. Chet recommended a load and we went to the range to try it.
1.5 MOA or better with a Lyman peep sight was the result out of a M97 & a S91. Both rifles were money out to 200 yards
My buddy killed a nice bull the third day.
This year I drew a Nevada muzzleloader bull tag for the Ely area. I got my 45 caliber super 91 dialed in with some of Ed Mehlig's 465 grain conicals and Pyrodex P. Easily sub MOA with a scope. And with the irons I could shoot it about 1.5 MOA.
I must say Ed makes a super consistent accurate bullet. And he is a super nice guy.
My buddy has a 45 caliber fast twist Knight Mountaineer that he bought after talking to Chet a few too many times.
That rifle with BH209 and a Parker 275 BE also proved to be super accurate (.5 MOA with a scope).
Again I pestered Chet on sight set ups and ended up with Globe sights up front on both rifles a Lyman rear sight on the White and a Phoenix Precision with adjustable iris on the Knight.
I elected to hunt with the Knight as the shots were probably going to be longer.
I hunted several giant bulls but couldn't get inside 375 yards on them. I felt very confident in the rifle /bullet /shooter combo to 300 yards.
After hunting 7 days we lowered our standards slightly. We spotted an older bull on the 10th day. Got back on him in the afternoon and waited for him to get out of his bed.
I was at 195 yards, my first shot took out a front shoulder but not fatal, second shot probably would have been fatal (quartering away to far forward, one lung) wobbly but 3rd shot and he went right down. My first muzzleloader animal ever!
Super cool older bull, we took pictures and got to breaking him down.
No the bad part of the story We came upon an injury that we eventually found had left him gravely ill, and septic. Lots of white pus in a pocket and in his chest cavity. I was not going to take that meat home to my family.
The game warden agreed and after investigating said it was the worst he's seen.
The end result is I get the same tag for next year!
So a huge thanks to all those who replied to me and helped.
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Four or five years ago I only owned one muzzleloader and I only used it as a teaching tool in my hunter education classes.
Thanks to Chet I own 3 more White Rifles and my buddy has a couple Knights and 3 Whites.
I pestered Chet with questions, which he always answered and we eventually bought several Whites from him.
In 2015 my buddy drew a Colorado muzzleloader bull tag. Chet recommended a load and we went to the range to try it.
1.5 MOA or better with a Lyman peep sight was the result out of a M97 & a S91. Both rifles were money out to 200 yards
My buddy killed a nice bull the third day.
This year I drew a Nevada muzzleloader bull tag for the Ely area. I got my 45 caliber super 91 dialed in with some of Ed Mehlig's 465 grain conicals and Pyrodex P. Easily sub MOA with a scope. And with the irons I could shoot it about 1.5 MOA.
I must say Ed makes a super consistent accurate bullet. And he is a super nice guy.
My buddy has a 45 caliber fast twist Knight Mountaineer that he bought after talking to Chet a few too many times.
That rifle with BH209 and a Parker 275 BE also proved to be super accurate (.5 MOA with a scope).
Again I pestered Chet on sight set ups and ended up with Globe sights up front on both rifles a Lyman rear sight on the White and a Phoenix Precision with adjustable iris on the Knight.
I elected to hunt with the Knight as the shots were probably going to be longer.
I hunted several giant bulls but couldn't get inside 375 yards on them. I felt very confident in the rifle /bullet /shooter combo to 300 yards.
After hunting 7 days we lowered our standards slightly. We spotted an older bull on the 10th day. Got back on him in the afternoon and waited for him to get out of his bed.
I was at 195 yards, my first shot took out a front shoulder but not fatal, second shot probably would have been fatal (quartering away to far forward, one lung) wobbly but 3rd shot and he went right down. My first muzzleloader animal ever!
Super cool older bull, we took pictures and got to breaking him down.
No the bad part of the story We came upon an injury that we eventually found had left him gravely ill, and septic. Lots of white pus in a pocket and in his chest cavity. I was not going to take that meat home to my family.
The game warden agreed and after investigating said it was the worst he's seen.
The end result is I get the same tag for next year!
So a huge thanks to all those who replied to me and helped.
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and next one may be even better . Now that you got them Whites and that fast twist Knight the next step is a Custom 
