Ok, thanks to all for the help...I've selected my new Muzzle loader...Knight Light Weight with green stock, and bare 209 primer breech plug. Thanks, I was headed down the wrong path so I' glad I asked and so many people steered my this way.
My next question is...powders, and cleaning?
I've been out of muzzle loader hunting for a few years, but hunted many years with my old TC Black Diamond. I always used Pyrodex pellets, and my cleaning regimen was not fun. Swabbing with that white TC bore cleaning liquid, followed up with boiling hot water and dawn, then clean hot water, and then "bore butter" as soon as it was dry but still hot. From what I hear, new powders are out and are much cleaner these days. Is that Triple 7 pellets? Or something else? How about bore cleaner? I use ballistol on all my rifles and pistols. Are the new guns and powders just like cleaning a smokeless modern rifle? I tried a few searches but cant seem to find the answers....I apologize ahead of time if this topic has been beaten to death.
My next question is...powders, and cleaning?
I've been out of muzzle loader hunting for a few years, but hunted many years with my old TC Black Diamond. I always used Pyrodex pellets, and my cleaning regimen was not fun. Swabbing with that white TC bore cleaning liquid, followed up with boiling hot water and dawn, then clean hot water, and then "bore butter" as soon as it was dry but still hot. From what I hear, new powders are out and are much cleaner these days. Is that Triple 7 pellets? Or something else? How about bore cleaner? I use ballistol on all my rifles and pistols. Are the new guns and powders just like cleaning a smokeless modern rifle? I tried a few searches but cant seem to find the answers....I apologize ahead of time if this topic has been beaten to death.