Ffftttt ... Boom! Great Bullet Combos

[rockhound78]

Nice Write-up.

Can't use sabots here either, nor pellets, just loose powder. No smokeless either in BP season

 

[Petey]

Maybe someday Petey you’ll show me how it’s done so I can be a bona fide Jeremiah Johnston? And I know a for a fact that young man can shoot! Another nice write up Petey!

Yeah everyone missed him at the matches this year. They probably didn't miss losing to him, ha! Hopefully he can fit in one or two matches this year. All depends on work, you and I know too well ..."welcome to the real world"

 

[Petey]

Nice Write-up.

Can't use sabots here either, nor pellets, just loose powder. No smokeless either in BP season

PA does have an early antlerless muzzleloader season that's in October during our archery season. This week long season allows all manors of scoped in-lines, percussion, flintlock, and I don't believe any restrictions on smokeless or bullet. Later in the week, they open it up to a few days the seniors and juniors can actually use a rifle. This past year it coincided with a muzzleloader bear, and archery bear I believe.. Heck it's so hard to keep all the season's in order.

Lets just say mid-late October I have a bow in my hand and all I care about is big bucks at that point. Shooting a doe is the LAST thing on my mind, b/c they are literally bait for the upcoming weeks of the rut. I'm also shooting pheasants in my free time when not bow hunting. I actually wanted I doe, I'd just shoot it with my bow during that season.

This late flintlock ONLY season was super primitive 20 years ago. Patch and round ball only. As stated, we killed a few with those slugs, but it would normally result in a 300 yard trail job on a double lung hit deer. Those round balls would just flatten out like you cut one in half. It would just poke a hole in them, kind like shooting a deer with a field point on an arrow, instead of a broadhead. It worked, and still works today... but I sure like those pistol bullets out of a sabot. Zero tracking and phenomenal energy from near perfect bullet performance. Not just a round chunk of lead being slung. I'm glad PA started to allow conical bullets during this season. Many less wounded deer, or recovered deer I'm sure.

 

[brokeasajoke]

I have had good luck with the hornady sabot SST for my .45 in line Knight. My .54 Thompson hurts my shoulder plus the nipple is stuck and needs replaced. What deer I've shot with those hornady were DRT.

 

[Adam in WI]

PA does have an early antlerless muzzleloader season that's in October during our archery season. This week long season allows all manors of scoped in-lines, percussion, flintlock, and I don't believe any restrictions on smokeless or bullet.

This is something I never understood. I always believed muzzleloader should coincide with archery, or at least the latter half of archery season. You at least have the option of muzzleloader before regular season. However, I believe it's backwards to have primitive only seasons after the regular gun season.

 

[HandgunHTR]

I used that same combo in a CVA inline for many years when hunting the Weapons Station in Charleston, SC (Shotgun or muzzleloader only).
It was deadly on deer.
85 grains of FFg (or Pyrodex RS), a #11 mag cap and that bullet/sabot combo = dead deer, every time.

 

[AWS]

I never had a problem with a MZ and round balls but I did shoot 54's and 58's maybe the large ball made a difference, I saved my 45 for targets and small game.

 

[Bojo]

Petey
What powder and charge weight are you using with yours ?
I’m currently using Powerbelts over 80 grains of 3f in my 50 renegade.
I missed a doe in the brush at about 70 yards on the last Saturday of flintlock.

 

[Petey]

Petey
What powder and charge weight are you using with yours ?
I’m currently using Powerbelts over 80 grains of 3f in my 50 renegade.
I missed a doe in the brush at about 70 yards on the last Saturday of flintlock.

90 gr of FFF. That's about all she'll burn but's been my go to charge for 30 years. I have used some loose triple seven which is clean, but burns like FF. I like a little faster charge.

 

[Bojo]

I didn’t like 2f in mine neither. I have some sabots and 240 xtp bullets ,I’ll have to try them out.