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I do a lot of pig hunting at night here in Texas where it is legal. Even the modern guns can have a lot of muzzle flash too. Yeah it can momentarily blind you. But black powder guns all seem to blow some powder out of the barrel that flashes. It even does it some with reduced loads too.
Heck I was impressed a while back when I was testing a new inline muzzleloader at home. Just the 209 primer. I wanted to see if the firing pin was working or not. Anyway with just the primer in place I pulled the trigger in the darkened room and it did the muffled bang as expected but there was a very noticeable flash out of the muzzle. I wasted another primer marveling the flash out of the barrel.
As mentioned earlier using a chronograph to watch your bullet speed is the way to go for determining the max load for a particular combination of gun and bullet. But only if your gun can handle it safely of course. Obviously some guns can’t be tested in that way.
Heck I was impressed a while back when I was testing a new inline muzzleloader at home. Just the 209 primer. I wanted to see if the firing pin was working or not. Anyway with just the primer in place I pulled the trigger in the darkened room and it did the muffled bang as expected but there was a very noticeable flash out of the muzzle. I wasted another primer marveling the flash out of the barrel.
As mentioned earlier using a chronograph to watch your bullet speed is the way to go for determining the max load for a particular combination of gun and bullet. But only if your gun can handle it safely of course. Obviously some guns can’t be tested in that way.
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