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Anyone making an inline with a twist suitable for patched round ball? 50 or 54?
? PRB has been getting meat for hundreds of years.Most who buy an inline wants to shoot modern bullets. That's the point of buying a modern inline. Modern powder, primers, bullets, and a scope.
I'm not sure you could shoot a heavy enough powder load to kill big game. It might be a good small game gun.
? PRB has been getting meat for hundreds of years.
After reading it again I think you were commenting about using a small powder charge. That makes sense.
I see no reason why an inline with the correct twist would not work well.
As I read this thread and the more I think about it, about the only exception is, at least in my shooting experience is my CVA Optima V2 pistol.
I have shot patched round ball out of it with very good accuracy.
60 grains of 3f Swiss powder. I only shot out to 50 yards but it's dead on.
I think it has a 1/28 twist barrel?
I'm sure it will kill a deer no problem at close range with that load.
My cva rifle will shoot a PRB great to around 50 or 60 yards but at a 100 yards the target looks like buckshotAs I read this thread and the more I think about it, about the only exception is, at least in my shooting experience is my CVA Optima V2 pistol.
I have shot patched round ball out of it with very good accuracy.
60 grains of 3f Swiss powder. I only shot out to 50 yards but it's dead on.
I think it has a 1/28 twist barrel?
I'm sure it will kill a deer no problem at close range with that load.
Anyone making an inline with a twist suitable for patched round ball? 50 or 54?
Plenty for deer if you don't take long shots.
It would have been a fun hunt. I wish I could have done it.
Are you going to hunt
Oh yeah, I hunted with it last year.Plenty for deer if you don't take long shots.
It would have been a fun hunt. I wish I could have done it.
Are you going to hunt with it?
Traditions offered a special order inline 50cal 1-48 twist for PRB.
Not really.
Having said that, i've been shooting patched round balls from inline rifles for 20 years, killed some deer and numerous wild hogs using patched round balls fired from inline rifles. There's another factor besides rifling twist rate, the depth of the rifling. Patched round balls like deeper grooves.
My favorite inline for use of patched round balls is a .54 caliber TC Fire Hawk. The twist rate is 1/38". It's very accurate with up to 90 grains of Black MZ powder.
My cheap old CVA Stag Horn rifle with it's 1/32" twist rate is very accurate using patched round balls.
Doc White has also shot a lot of round balls from fast twist inlines:
Round Balls In Fast Twist Rifles | White Muzzleloading
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