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Offline Darklin

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Shooting round ball in a H & R muzzle loading barrel?
« on: November 29, 2012, 05:06:23 PM »
Hello
I am looking into buying a muzzle loading barrel from H & R. How well do they shoot round ball with their twist rate of 1 in 28? Or do most of you use conicals. Any advice would be most welcome.
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Re: Shooting round ball in a H & R muzzle loading barrel?
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2012, 04:30:50 AM »
I use the TC Cheap Shots (240grain hollow points - all lead bullets) with the Mag Express sabots, I use to use 240grain Hornady XTP bullets with the same sabots, but found the Cheap Shots just as good as the XTP's on deer.  And they're a lot less expensive.

FWIW, they both have the same POI with two  50grain T7 pellets, so no re-sighting needed with either bullet.

I don't think there are many people that use a round ball out of the Huntsman or Sidekicks.
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Re: Shooting round ball in a H & R muzzle loading barrel?
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2012, 04:30:09 PM »
In my experience prb dont work to well in fast twist rate guns but they do soot very acurately in slow twist rifles like my old 54 cal hawken 1in68 twist

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Re: Shooting round ball in a H & R muzzle loading barrel?
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2012, 12:56:01 PM »
My Huntsman 50 caliber shoots round ball (.490) very well with goex 2ff and light loads (50 to 65 grains). However, I have only shot these at 25 yds. May do some testing this week with BH209, but doubt that the starting load (80 grains) for BH209 will handle a round ball very well.
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Re: Shooting round ball in a H & R muzzle loading barrel?
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2012, 08:54:42 PM »
on another site, there was/is a thread about RB's in fast twist

and they do seem to work well, but need to be a tighter fit than a standard PRB loading, IIRC.

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Re: Shooting round ball in a H & R muzzle loading barrel?
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2013, 05:56:30 AM »
IIRC Hornady makes some hard cast lead round balls for ML's that use thier own special plastic sabot instead of a cloth patch. I have always been impressed at how well a soft lead round ball from a ML works on deer and deer sized game. In my expiernece they work as well as any higher tech pointed or hollowpoint bullet.
I am now wondering how acurately the Hornady hard cast lead round balls with thier special plastic sabot might shoot out of a Huntsman? Anyone shot them?....<><.... :)
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Re: Shooting round ball in a H & R muzzle loading barrel?
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2013, 06:57:20 AM »
The Poly-Patch(round ball sabot) is no longer made, maybe for a reason.  ??? Lyman specifically forbids their use, hope the Hornady product is better.  ;)

Tim


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http://www.hornady.com/store/50-Cal-Plastic-Patch/
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