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There’s a picture of the 40 cal hornady 155 grain bullet in the harvester blue sabot designated for 40 cal bullets. Looks like you’re right. So please walk me through it. You’re saying my loading tip on my starter went inside the sabot and around the bullet and that kept the tip from...

It’s a cva optima v2, .50 caliber. I shoot bore size 50 cal conicals like Great Plains, and 44 and 45 cal bullets in sabots. Had never shot 40 cal bullets before but in the blue harvester sabots specifically for 40 cal bullets they’re very hard to start.

For first time wanted to shoot .40 cal Hornady pistol bullets so got some harvester sabots specifically for .40 cal., the blue ones. Very hard to start them down muzzle so tried a different loading tip on my short starter. Got it going but then the tip drew sabot and bullet back up so tried...

Are there any muzzleloader shooters in the Sacramento/Yuba City/Chico (or thereabouts), CA area on the forum?

I know. Another dumb question. Despite having shot my inlines for years I've often wondered just how the .45 slug inside the .50 caliber sabot is given its twist. The sabot makes it bore tight, right? But most of the bullet is inside the sabot. How does the rifling "grip" the bullet itself...

Hello, everyone. Fascinating forum. I have some unopened Pyrodex and Triple 7, both granular and pelletized, sitting "on the shelf" for three years. Inside the house and cool and dry environment. Still good? Thank you. Kim

I went back through all my guns and used two different bore cleaners, inlines and traditional side locks. I used Breakfree CLP and then a dry patch or two, and then a patch of Hoppe's 9 oil to finish on a few of them. For the others I did the same process but instead of CLP I used Hoppe's #9...

Thanks, Encore50A and Squeeze. Squeeze, your post made me chuckle. It caught the sort of "existentialist" flavor of my posts. Damn it, where did that stuff come from, and why? Sort of like parsing out the meaning of life, ha, ha. I did think that that barely light brown color days later...

Thanks, Squeeze. Any idea where the stuff came from when it was shiny bright after I cleaned it? Was some stuff in the rifling I didn't see and it fluffed out while sitting those few weeks? I know absurd question, but darn, she was clean to the eye! Which brings me to the question of using a...

Strangest thing. Shot my new Traditions Ultralight LDR about three weeks ago. Swabbed between shots and gave her a couple more patches before leaving range. Went right home and did thorough cleaning. For me that's some large patches on a polymer cleaning jag on a Dewey rod. I use several...

This is an admittedly silly question, but just a tiny mystery to me when it happens every once in a while. It happened a couple of times when we were shooting my son's CVA wolf. We mark with a sharpie where a certain load of Pyrodex is with a particular sabot and bullet, say, 80 grains of...

Thanks, Shawn. My son and I went to range yesterday with CVA Wolf with Vortex Diamondback scope, both brand new. Learned my lesson about BH in CVAs with the standards plug, so took Pyrodex Select. Wow and wow. Shot Pyrodex in my traditional percussion cap rifles a lot but never in inlines...

Woofer, that's been exactly what I've been mulling over and researching on the net: blackpowder. I do like Pyrodex and Blackhorn, and want to try Triple 7, but I'd sure like to try black powder. It looks like Swiss is a good one, and isn't any more expensive than BH. The Swiss sells by the...

Great info, Shawn, Squeeze, and BuckDoeHunter. I was using CCI 209M primers and also have used Federal 209A primers. And, yeah, that's the irony of all this. I do have breech plug brushes and am a clean the same day freak, and keep the flash channel clean and avoid getting the rod even into...

Thank you, ShawnT and Squeeze. I was unavoidably coming to the same conclusion, and so put a range rod with cleaning jag down muzzle and put that jag and the stuck jag head to head and tapped and rapped a few times with heel of hand, each time a bit harder. It didn't take too hard before the...

Clarification. Hornady loading tip/jag with patch was started through breech end so as to push any powder grains remaining out through muzzle so wouldnt fall into action. Now stuck in about inch and half to two inches. Stuck loading jag is 50 cal. like rifle.

Any help much appreciated. Brand new cva optima v2. Shooting at range. Loaded 45 hornady pistol bullet in crush rib sabot on 80 grains of blackhorn. Guns first shot! Before loading id fired a couple of cci mag 209 primers. Pulled trigger and a misfire. Unscrewed plug ran cleaning jag down...

I've been exploring the forum and saw a suggestion for the MMP standard black .50 cal. sabot for .45 cal. .452 diam. bullets. I've been using the .50 cal. black Harvester crush rib sabots with Hornady .45 cal. .452 xtp pistol bullets. Is there any difference in ease of loading between the two...

I "make" my own sabots with different weight and types .45 cal. Hornady pistol bullets (.451 and .452 diam.) in the .50 cal. black Harvester Crush Rib sabots for those two diameters of .45 cal. bullets. I mistakenly shot some .44 cal. Hornady pistol bullets in those same sabots rather than in...