Me i hate it when the bullet is 'hard to move' down to the powder so my bullets are always sized to be 'easy' to move down to the powder,
I had a customer bring one of the first Savage muzzleloaders to my shop yesterday, which uses the steel primer module which looks like a small cartridge and uses a 209 primer.
He wanted me to shoot it, so he gave me 42 grains of 5744 to put in it.
He then handed me a BOR lock bullet to put in next.
I noticed the bullet almost fell down the muzzle and required almost no pressure with the ramrod.
We went outside to fire the rifle.
I added the primer module with 209 primer.
When I pulled the trigger, the rifle made a small burp sound and the bullet fell out of the end of the barrel.
I wish you could have seen the look on the man's face.
We cleaned the bore and tried again with a "tighter" fitting sabot and bullet.
It went bang the second time, and the bullet hit the target at 100 yards.
When we finished the man said he did not want to take a chance of the rifle not firing when a big buck was standing in front of him.
He decided a BOR lock bullet can be too loose in his Savage rifle as it came from the factory, with that powder.
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