JayCutright
Silver $$ Contributor
This one is not what I would expect to see on this sight but I just gotta show off my deer rifle.
I converted a Remington 40X into a 45 cal smokeless muzzle loader to comply with Illinois muzzle loader and sluggun deer seasons.
I'm shooting sub minute groups at 2700fps with 72gr of IMR 4198. I have loaded it up to 2835fps but groups opened to 1 M.O.A. so I backed it off a little.
The recoil is "noticable" and I don't like the blast that come with using a brake so I took an oversized aluminum brake and turned it down and threaded it to except a shroud that I made out of 7075 aluminum. The shroud keeps the sound moving away from the rifle instead of blasting my ears like a muzzle brake normally does. I made the shroud out of an axle shaft that was salvaged from a sprint car.
The barrel is a 20 tw Krieger, the trigger is a Jewell and the scope is a 4-16x42 SII Sightron HHR mounted in Leupold rings.
The blond side shown with powder funnel, bullet starting tool, primer holder & 325gr 45 cal ballistic extreme bullet.
Muzzle brake with shroud.
Muzzle brake, shroud & ramrod ferrell.
I converted a Remington 40X into a 45 cal smokeless muzzle loader to comply with Illinois muzzle loader and sluggun deer seasons.
I'm shooting sub minute groups at 2700fps with 72gr of IMR 4198. I have loaded it up to 2835fps but groups opened to 1 M.O.A. so I backed it off a little.
The recoil is "noticable" and I don't like the blast that come with using a brake so I took an oversized aluminum brake and turned it down and threaded it to except a shroud that I made out of 7075 aluminum. The shroud keeps the sound moving away from the rifle instead of blasting my ears like a muzzle brake normally does. I made the shroud out of an axle shaft that was salvaged from a sprint car.
The barrel is a 20 tw Krieger, the trigger is a Jewell and the scope is a 4-16x42 SII Sightron HHR mounted in Leupold rings.

The blond side shown with powder funnel, bullet starting tool, primer holder & 325gr 45 cal ballistic extreme bullet.

Muzzle brake with shroud.

Muzzle brake, shroud & ramrod ferrell.
