What are some good muzzleloader bullets for hunting?

red rick said:
The other 2 just sat in the safe every hunting season and my safe was getting full .

I kept the easiest one to use , easier to scope , easier to clean and I don’t worry about pulling it up and down in a treestand and scratching it up .

My Accura has had a few hangfires using BH-209 . Mine is the 1st model and there is no BH-209 breech plug for it . It has never had one using T-7 pellets , or powder .

I agree the wood and brown muzzlleloaders are a lot more pretty than a synthetic inline , but I just use them for a 2 week earlier start to deer season . I don’t care about the tradition of them and IMO , if they are percussion and not flintlock you have lost some the tradition of it anyway .
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Yeah I like being able to use a scope makes it a lot easier on my eyes.

They don't make a breech plug for bh-209 for the accura?

That's why I got me one it gives me 3 day head start and an extra 2 weeks on the end of season
 
rifleman30/0627 said:
Yeah I like being able to use a scope makes it a lot easier on my eyes.

They don't make a breech plug for bh-209 for the accura?

That's why I got me one it gives me 3 day head start and an extra 2 weeks on the end of season
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Not for the V1 model . It doesn’t have the quick removal breech plug .
 
rifleman30/0627 said:
That doesn't make sense why it has hang fires. Maybe it just doesn't like BH-209? Idk much about muzzleloader as I said I'm new.
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I have read that before about BH-209 being harder to ignite , those the recommendation of using 209 magnum primers and a special breech plug for the newer CVA muzzleloaders with the quick release breech plug .
 
red rick said:
I have read that before about BH-209 being harder to ignite , those the recommendation of using 209 magnum primers and a special breech plug for the newer CVA muzzleloaders with the quick release breech plug .
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I watched a guy on YouTube use BH-209 with the factory breech plug with a cva wolf and 209 shotshell primers, said he never had a problem with it. But he did go later and buy the BH-209 breech plug which didn't make sense because he said “no issues".
 
rifleman30/0627 said:
I watched a guy on YouTube use BH-209 with the factory breech plug with a cva wolf and 209 shotshell primers, said he never had a problem with it. But he did go later and buy the BH-209 breech plug which didn't make sense because he said “no issues".
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I didn’t have an issue with mine every time .
 
I use the Hornady 250gr SSTs in for both mine (Thompson Center Omega) and my daughters (Tradition Buckstalker) rifles.
I've tried others in my TC but the SSTs are the only ones that it seems to like, but it does shoot those really well.
They have worked really well at the range that I can shoot at in my woods which is 70 yards or less (usually under 50).

This one ran about 75 yards and fell into a creek after a double lung shot. Trail was easy to follow.
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red rick said:
I didn’t have an issue with mine every time .
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I understand that but he said he never had an issue I don't understand why he bought the BH-209 breech plug if he had no issues at all. The way he said it was like it was working perfectly fine.
 
Gerd33 said:
I use the Hornady 250gr SSTs in for both mine (Thompson Center Omega) and my daughters (Tradition Buckstalker) rifles.
I've tried others in my TC but the SSTs are the only ones that it seems to like, but it does shoot those really well.
They have worked really well at the range that I can shoot at in my woods which is 70 yards or less (usually under 50).

This one ran about 75 yards and fell into a creek after a double lung shot. Trail was easy to follow.
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I hear those are great bullets
 
I have an accura, which is like yours. I have used 255 gran RNFP bullets of pure lead with 100 grains of 777 under them in harvester sabots. Bullets mushroomed great, but would literally stop on the far side skin and not exit. I was casting soft lead and they sell a lot of hard cast bullets that would probably exit.

I bought another mold from MP Molds and it casts 265 grain penta hollow points to 285 grain FRNP flat tips in wheel weight lead. The hollow points fragmented too fast. still did the job but would not exit. Dimple points or the flat points have worked and exited and are killing fine. Shot a scrub buck that was a cull for a buddy and the bullet went to the far ribs and turned 90 degrees and went through the shoulder to exit making a mess of that shoulder. There are my go to and what i am testing now.

More testing to start again in October. ;)
 
We've been shooting cast handgun bullets in sabots for years.
But now Minnesota has gone anal about lead projectiles,
so when hunting on state lands we have been using Barnes Spit Fire T-EZ's.

AntiqueSledMan.
 
Malachi Leviticus Blue said:
You can purchase the sabots and bullets separately and "assemble" yourself more economically if you are trying to be budget conscious.
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Yes I was recommended on the Modern Muzzleloader Forum to get some.

Speer Jacketed Handgun Bullets .45 cal .451" 260 gr JHP​

Harvester Muzzleloading Premium High Pressure Sabots​

I placed my order at the beginning of this month two weeks later I get an email saying they are on backorder until November. So now I'm not very happy but I went and got me some Hornady bore drivers 290 grain for this season hopefully they perform as well as others say they do.
 
AntiqueSledMan said:
We've been shooting cast handgun bullets in sabots for years.
But now Minnesota has gone anal about lead projectiles,
so when hunting on state lands we have been using Barnes Spit Fire T-EZ's.

AntiqueSledMan.
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I'm not into casting my own bullets I don't feel comfortable doing so
 
archeryrob said:
I have an accura, which is like yours. I have used 255 gran RNFP bullets of pure lead with 100 grains of 777 under them in harvester sabots. Bullets mushroomed great, but would literally stop on the far side skin and not exit. I was casting soft lead and they sell a lot of hard cast bullets that would probably exit.

I bought another mold from MP Molds and it casts 265 grain penta hollow points to 285 grain FRNP flat tips in wheel weight lead. The hollow points fragmented too fast. still did the job but would not exit. Dimple points or the flat points have worked and exited and are killing fine. Shot a scrub buck that was a cull for a buddy and the bullet went to the far ribs and turned 90 degrees and went through the shoulder to exit making a mess of that shoulder. There are my go to and what i am testing now.

More testing to start again in October. ;)
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I have pyrodex and 777 pellets on hand soon as I rub out of the pyrodex I'll be using the 777 I hear they're great.
 
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