The Mongrel is ready for Ohio Deer season!!

[Grouse]

I have been shooting many different types of bullets out of this ML. It really seems to shoot them all well. I will be shooting the 240grn CF sabotless bullet this year by Lehigh Defense. Pretty excited to see how it all works this hunting season.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v315/grouse1/001(3).MOV?width=450&height=278&crop=fill
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v315/grouse1/001.jpg?width=450&height=278&crop=fill
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v315/grouse1/001(6).MOV?width=450&height=278&crop=fill
This was my final 100 yard group.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v315/grouse1/001(1).MOV?width=450&height=278&crop=fill

 

[MrTom]

My Optima pistol does that with Branes 225 grain XPBs and without all that other malarky hung on the gun.

 

[MTY]

That is not malarkey. It is googaws. And a little googaw never hurt anything.

 

[HC]

Ease up Tom, at least he gave it a proper name “mongrel”.

 

[rangerod]

Some of the best dogs I've had were "mongrels".

 

[michiganmuzzy]

Ill name my next dog Malarkey. He'll probably be a mongrel.
Never occured to me to name my MLs.

 

[Grouse]

I didn’t name it!! It’s made by SSK

 

[Rudyk]

That’s a unique rifle

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

Nice shooting! Good luck hunting.

 

[Confederate rifleman]

Beauty is as beauty does.
Very business like too. Ought to serve you well.
A rifle HAS to have a good and proper name!
If its a commercial rifle, the manufacturer's name says what it is. The name you give it gives it its identity...
Besides, its... TRADITION!

 

[GM54-120]

What fps did you end up with using the Lehigh 240gr CF sabotless?

 

[michiganmuzzy]

I didn’t name it!! It’s made by SSK

I guess i should have look closer at it. I thought it was an Optima pistol.

Beauty is as beauty does.
Very business like too. Ought to serve you well.
A rifle HAS to have a good and proper name!
If its a commercial rifle, the manufacturer's name says what it is. The name you give it gives it its identity...
Besides, its... TRADITION!

I had no idea. Mongrel is a good name and my Optima pistol looks a lot like it.

 

[bdog]

Good shooting, nice rig

 

[Grouse]

https://hosting.photobucket.com/ima...90D4E9BF9.jpeg?width=450&height=278&crop=fill

 

[Grouse]

I posted this on the other forum.

No breach plug is the biggest benefit in my opinion. This allows no double charging, more consistent ignition and velocities. No flame channel to clean or get plugged up. No Flash hole/ventliner erosion which produces different velocities and erratic accuracy. And also you can see the bullet in your barrel just by breaking it open.

The ignition system is a special casing made that the primer and powder is all ready in and the end is crimped and sealed so the powder doesn't pour out or leak. You simply just put in and take it out when not in use. Your bullet sets on a little shelf i call it and the casing comes right to the back of the bullet providing consistent ignition and velocities every time. And it has its own black powder substitute in the casing. It's very clean and non corrosive similar to BH209.

I do want to mention this is not a 3-4- 500 yard ML. At 2000fps 175 to 200 yards is max in my opinion. I will take some chronagraph numbers as soon as i get it back or even after Deer season.

Cant find the pictures i already had, so i will put up new ones when i get a chance.

 

[bdog]

I sure do like that rig, the last photo, sure looks like gun porn to me.... lol

 

[ported45]

I posted this on the other forum.

No breach plug is the biggest benefit in my opinion. This allows no double charging, more consistent ignition and velocities. No flame channel to clean or get plugged up. No Flash hole/ventliner erosion which produces different velocities and erratic accuracy. And also you can see the bullet in your barrel just by breaking it open.

The ignition system is a special casing made that the primer and powder is all ready in and the end is crimped and sealed so the powder doesn't pour out or leak. You simply just put in and take it out when not in use. Your bullet sets on a little shelf i call it and the casing comes right to the back of the bullet providing consistent ignition and velocities every time. And it has its own black powder substitute in the casing. It's very clean and non corrosive similar to BH209.

I do want to mention this is not a 3-4- 500 yard ML. At 2000fps 175 to 200 yards is max in my opinion. I will take some chronagraph numbers as soon as i get it back or even after Deer season.

Cant find the pictures i already had, so i will put up new ones when i get a chance.

So that is legal as a muzzleloader in Ohio?

 

[Grouse]

So that is legal as a muzzleloader in Ohio?

Yes Sir!!

 

[deermanok]

Sounds like your gun is setup like the Traditions Nitro-fire system.

 

[Slingingslugs]

As always...i learn something new every day at this forum. Fancy!