CVA Wolf Loading Problems

[hawkenman]

I bought my son a CVA Wolf several years ago. The gun shot great until this year, I had cleaned it and put butter bore in the barrel while it was stored. Went to sight it in for this season and after it was cleaned and there were two "hard spots"  I call that because when I was loading the sabot it came to a complete stop like it had hit the breach. Nothing I could do aside using a brass hammer to tap the ramrod down. I shot the gun and it was right target from last year, I thought leave well enough alone, but I tried to lode it for a second shot and the same thing happened,the ball just stuck there and no matter how hard I tried to push it down it would not go. I'm a pretty strong guy and I still had to use the brass hammer. I cleaned the barrel, scoped it and could not find any fowling in it. What could be wrong?

[Buckskins & Black Powder]

could very well be rust. Bore butter is a VERY poor rust protectant.  My advice is to buy a small jar of JB Bore paste and run around 50 to 75 strokes of this down the bore. Change the patch every 25 strokes.

Follow up with a GOOD bore protectant such as birchwood casey barricade, rig #2, montana xtreme gun oil or their Conditioner blend. There are plenty of good quality oils out there that was do the job. Bore butter is just good for traditional muzzleloader shooting patches and conical lube.

The Wolf really likes the MMP  HPH-24 sabots. I shoot them with the 260gr Harvester Scorpion PT Gold.

[tacklebury]

Seems like he'd have seen rust if he scoped it though.  Did you consider running the rod down just until it hits the tight spot, then marking it there and pulling it out to see where abouts on the barrel it's hitting?  My thought leans to the fact that maybe if it was hot then cooled it might have bulged below the rear sight.  The CVA Wolf doesn't have a super thick barrel, so metals stressed during the tapping of the rear sights can cause weakness that after repeated heating and cooling will cause a bulge. 8(  Other possibility is maybe it got knocked over by a kid etc.  Look for a mark on the barrel at the depth of the rod if it isn't near the rear sight.  BP barrels are fairly mild hardness steel and it wouldn't take a lot of impact to possibly constrict a bore a bit.  8(

[Buckskins & Black Powder]

I wonder if he is hitting the crud ring?

On a completely clean bore does it load fine?