BH209 any advice?

[Axis II]

Well instead of buying new pellets for the muzzleloader I decided to go blackhorn 209 this year. I just picked up the cci 209 magnum primers and have a new breech plug on order. I'm shooting a 50cal cva optima v2.

any advice on the BH209 I should know about? Id like to shoot a fairly heavy bullet 250-300gr so do I need to hop up the charge to get them going?

 

[ontarget]

I only use real black powder in my front stuffers. You may get alot more advice on the black powder forum.

 

[farmerboy78]

I use bh209 in my knight disc elite... amazing powder! 120gr of bh209 is equivalent to 150gr of everything else... I personally use right at 110gr with the 195gr duplex dead center... @ 120gr, it's groups better, but it has a little pressure... my primer won't just fall from the rifle when discarding it like it will at the 110gr mark... you won't use another powder! I have shot my rifle 25 times consecutively without any need to clean between shots...

With that bullet and 120gr, it's moving right @ 2200fps!!!!

 

[larueminati]

Clean your gun as if it were smokeless powder, don't use any of the blackpowder water based stuff.

Fire a primer on a clean bore then load it.

 

[bassjam]

I'd play around with charges to find what your gun/bullet combination prefers.

With my old T/C muzzleloader, it preferred 100 gr of pyrodex with the 385 gr Great Plains bullets I used, and 90 gr with the lighter powerbelts. If I tried adding more powder accuracy would start to suffer.

 

[Steve S.]

I use the 245 grain (copper) Power Point over 100 grains of 777 and WW 209 primers in a TC Pro Hunter. I have killed 3 larger does from 30 to 140 yards; always a pass-thru and very little running distance after the shot. Very accurate in my rifle; 2” or less groups at 100 yards. Again the basics for me - confidence in the rifle, confidence in my shooting ability and shot placement. Good shooting.

 

[lastofthebreed]

Keep in mind the max load for BH209 is 120 gr (by volume). I weigh each of my charges and carry them in tubes for field quick loading. 10 grains by volume is equal to 7 grains by weight. 120 gr by volume is 84 grains if weighed.

You will be very pleased with BH209. I don't use anything else in my Encore 50 caliber.

 

[LoonWulf]

Keep in mind the max load for BH209 is 120 gr (by volume). I weigh each of my charges and carry them in tubes for field quick loading. 10 grains by volume is equal to 7 grains by weight. 120 gr by volume is 84 grains if weighed.

You will be very pleased with BH209. I don't use anything else in my Encore 50 caliber.

I do the same thing with my 777 (cant get bh209 out here, wish we could). I keep them in individual 15ml sample vials, which makes loading quick and easy.
Its interesting that bh209 comes out to pretty much the same weight/volume as 777.
Its obviously more energetic than 777 based on the velocity numbers, and the max volume use able, but is about as dense it seems.

 

[H&Hhunter]

BH209 is the most consistent powder on the market. My LHR Redemption .50 cal shoots moa with 480 gr bore size Hydro Cons.

I use 100 grs of BH209.