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Offline Forestclimber

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Converting to muzzleloader
« on: September 27, 2010, 06:03:43 AM »
I was wondering if anyone ever took an H&R high powered rifle and had it rebored to a muzzleloader with a breechplug that uses 209 caps.  I think you could make a nice scoped roundball shooting barrel.  I know there are people that rebore shot out muzzleloader barrels.
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Re: Converting to muzzleloader
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2010, 12:38:01 PM »
There is one GBO member with a 45/70 barrel that has a 209 breech plug installed.  I believe it is a modified Encore plug.  Last post I read it was shooting round balls nicely for him.  The bore still has the original rifling.  If you search in the H&R Centerfire forum you should be able to find the threads on it.  Below is a link to his latest post.

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http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,216645.0.html
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Re: Converting to muzzleloader
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2010, 04:32:54 PM »
A little bit of an update on this. 20g was too much powder, i use 14g Unique now. High pressure loads, W296 and others cratered the receiver. 209 laying on the face of the receiver with high pressure loads is no good. Lessons learned. Black powder works fine but fowled terrible. Twist rate. A 25 acp conversion may solve this but not in the budget. Some time in the future maybe. Good for now. Low pressure load and accurate with round balls. Very slow.
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