sovapatriot
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Good evening guys. I've never owned a muzzle loader until now, I'm more into AR15s and such. I had been saving up for a muzzle loader to take advantage of the two week muzzleloader season here in VA because the rut is usually in prime time and it's bear season as well. I run suppressors on all of my centerfire rifles so when silencerco introduced their Maxim 50 I decided to jump in.
I got the ML yesterday, mounted my scope and went to the range today. Got it on at 45 yards (about an 1" high) went out to 100 and it was all over the place.
I am using 100 grains blackhorn 209, Winchester 209 primer and a federal bor lok mz copper solid 270 grain projectile.
I torqued and loctited my base and rings, double checked that they were tight so unless there is an internal problem with the scope ( I don't think that's the case) the scope should be good to go.
I measured the powder in the provided graduated cylinder and put it into speed loaders but in my excitement I did spill a little, could that give me such huge variations?
Any obvious issues that I'm missing?
I ordered some IMR white hots today, it would seem that they would be more consistent, I'm also considered taking the scope off and putting it on a rifle that I know is accurate to rule out a scope issue but haven't done that yet.
Thanks for the help guys!!
I got the ML yesterday, mounted my scope and went to the range today. Got it on at 45 yards (about an 1" high) went out to 100 and it was all over the place.
I am using 100 grains blackhorn 209, Winchester 209 primer and a federal bor lok mz copper solid 270 grain projectile.
I torqued and loctited my base and rings, double checked that they were tight so unless there is an internal problem with the scope ( I don't think that's the case) the scope should be good to go.
I measured the powder in the provided graduated cylinder and put it into speed loaders but in my excitement I did spill a little, could that give me such huge variations?
Any obvious issues that I'm missing?
I ordered some IMR white hots today, it would seem that they would be more consistent, I'm also considered taking the scope off and putting it on a rifle that I know is accurate to rule out a scope issue but haven't done that yet.
Thanks for the help guys!!