Hello,
I'm having issues with accuracy with my muzzleloader, need some tips. My huntsman is capable of 1 inch at 50 yards, I sometimes get lucky and a couple of the holes are pretty close to each other. But it's not consistent.
Let me be clear. My goal is not to consistently hit 1" at 50 yards. My goal is to find a loading and shooting method that is "robust" enough to hit the black at 100 yards (roughly 7" round). Minute of 2-liter bottle (or better-than-minute-of-milk-jug), while allowing me to load quickly and shoot quickly (relatively of course) throughou a range session, let's say no more than 30 shots.
Basically, a lazy-load and shoot. When I want to take my time and "do things right", I have a
very fine flintlock I love to shoot slow and deliberate. Afterall, that's the point of muzzleloading, yes? The inline is for down and durty lead chucking.
Anyways, I DO NOT mean the tips for consistency. The usuall stuff like swab the bore every shot, seat the identical same way, with the same force, etc etc etc are not "robust". They are time consuming and lead to the 1" at 50 yard accuracy I don't need. I'd like "good enough" for this project.
That being said, what I DON'T know is what can give without excessively harming group size. For example, Should the bore be dry when shooting sabots, or should there be lube ahead of the sabot? I know if I put lube ahead of the sabot I can shoot all day without ever swabbing. But if that opens groups from minute-of-soda-bottle to off-paper at 100 yards, obviously that has to stop.
In short, what I'm looking for are the factors that I can follow to turn this gun into a range gun steels plinker. What's necessary to get me "good enough", and whats not important to strictly follow unless I want the holes to touch at 50.
At least, what YOU'VE noticed your huntsman is quite sensitive to, and what it's less sensitive to. That can help me quite a bit!
Thanks guys.
-S