Countryguy1982
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Here in ga small game opens next month ,u can hunt small game with a muzzleloader and that means a month of pig hunting with a smokepole before bow season opens. well about a month ago i Run up on a sweet Deal on a 54 cal Stainless Remington 700 muzzleloader. nice and clean , looked brand new. Bore was fantastic, breach plug was clean .I thought hmmm 54 cal. That orta punch a big hole through a hog so i bought it. of course it was number 11 primers ( i always hated the delay with them) so i bought a conversion kit and installed it to 209. Bought me some TC mag and hornady SST loads for it , some Jim shockey gold and began to shoot. OMG at 50 yards Groups were $*#(!($ awful I am talking like 7 to 10 inch groups and very inconsistent. 1 shot would be 7 inch high, the next 7 inch low , the next 7 in to the right etc. Both the T/C and sst did it. I tried going from about 130 grains of powder down to 100 grains. ( didn't help) i cant remember what grain the 2 loads are but they seemed like they were bout 25 grains apart. i was ready to wrap the gun around a tree.!!! or make a nice stainless/synthetic fence post out of it. Then i seen a advertisement for the powerbelts, and so , i thought hell , y not, gun isn't shooting now, at worst i am just going to be out another $20 if they dont work. Well they helped , I am now at about a 3 inch group at 50 yrds. still 3 inches at 50 yards , isnt all that good to me. My 45 cal Cva kodiak and 50 cal cva wolf , do that good at 100 yrds. could some of you black powder boys help a brother out and give me some advice to what i could do to tighten the groups down some? have any of you experienced this problem?