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Just added safety info for you: If you have a partial ignition of powder (hiss and fizzle), don’t re-cap and fire. This doesn’t sound like what you experienced. This happened to me when was first starting out and I used a patch that was a bit too wet to clean at the range between shots. The...

Thanks for the info, fellas. The nipple does look removable, it’s blued or nitrided (black in color) and rest of plug is stainless. Thanks for confirming it. It’s good to be able to replace the nipple and not the whole plug. But that makes it even more odd there isn’t a Number 11 nipple...

Oregon has removed the “ignition open to the elements” clause from the regs. Does anyone know of a CVA QRBP quick release breach plug that has the nipple for #11 caps? All my searching keeps bringing up 209 quick release breech plugs, which I can’t have, and am not sure I want anyway. I...

My Knight Ultralight is a .501, and my Optima is a .500. Note the ring on each bullet nose in the picture from the loading jag. I got the same thing, so now I use a conical pointed tip jag to load. I’m sure that is also deforming the bullets to some extent as well, but it is down in the base...

Thanks to all for the great info. Lot to digest and some great entertainment, too. Still marinating on my decision. Will borrow a buddies shotgun to get through the season. Then I can proceed a bit more methodically.

Good info, gents. Keep it coming! If I were also going to try and hunt other birds (geese, ducks), would that change the recommendation. Is an auto-loader a big advantage when shooting them on the wing? I’m sure a purist would say it only helps if you miss with the first shot. Just thinking...

Nice looking guns.

I have a 590A1 for varmints. I do like the Mossberg tang safety over the cross bolt, so that’s a plus. Thanks for the info.

Looking for some recommendations for a turkey hunting shotgun. Western public land hunting. I don’t frequent hunting-specific forums much, and I think I’ll get better advice from a fellow front-stuffer who also hunts turkeys. I’ve decided on a 3 inch chamber, 12 gauge. Undecided on pump action...

Just to clarify for reference: there used to be a requirement in OR for the projectile to be no longer than twice the caliber. This requirement went away last year or the year before.

Same state, same choices. I bought the UL first. Picked up an Optima on sale a year later. Haven’t shot the Optima yet due to time and not needing to. The Knight is a very high quality gun and its apparent as soon as you pick it up. The Optima doesn’t scream “Cadillac” when you pick it up...

Hunt Elk during the Rut.

Thanks for the replies, fellas. Here is another question about protecting the base of the bullet: Would the plastic base of the PowerBelt Pure Lead bullet not protect the base of the bullet as well as a wool wad? On that bullet, it’s a post on the base of the bullet that sits in a plastic...

Lewis, thanks for the tip on the cotton ball in the hollow base. Honestly that seems like a bit of a hassle, at least for field conditions, so I may just go straight to flat based heavy lead conical. Oregon recently loosened up the bullet restrictions slightly, so I got some 350 grn Hornady...

I read about this technique, even took a bottle of my wife’s ‘used once’ nail polish and put it in my range bag. Doesn’t go with me, but it’s at camp if I need it. But I didn’t do it. I saw how Sabotloader submerged a nipple with a #11 RWS cap for an hour and it still fired, and figured I...

No scopes allowed. Open sights, but I did put a rear peep sight on it. It has a screw in small aperture and if you remove it a larger ghost ring. It has the original fiber optic front sight. Which is larger than I’d like, but had been adequate so far. I wondered how well the small aperture...

Equipment: Knight Ultralite #11 RWS Caps Triple 7 Thor Bullet Traditions black muzzle covers Hunted hard for a week here in the Oregon Salad on my first muzzle loader deer hunt. Passed on a dozen or so does from 30 feet to 30 yards, still hunting, but never saw a buck. Filled the tag on a...

I ordered the One Size Fits All Thor based on the same logic as you... don’t have to order the sizer pack first. Could only get it a few inches down the bore. Super tight. Had to knock it out from the rear. So then I ordered a sizer pack and determined that I have a .501 bore. And the .501...

Electric tape or something similar?

I have 2 laser boresights that I bought to use in my CF rifles. One that is the size of a .308 cartridge and you just chamber it, and then one that slips down the muzzle. They are both red. In bright sunlight the dot is hard to see with both. Ultimately, I was unimpressed with both. They...