Shooting round ball in a H & R muzzle loading barrel?

[Darklin]

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.

[OldSchoolRanger]

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.

[jdl41389]

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

   JDL

[lefty41]

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.

[nanuk-O-dah-Nort]

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.

[MSP Ret]

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?....<><....

[quickdtoo]

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


http://stevespages.com/pdf/lyman_blackpowder.pdf

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