Author Topic: what is your setup? (Read 1191 times)

lil_hunter12 · « **on:** December 02, 2008, 03:32:32 PM »

what brand rifle and scope setup do you guys use? i use a staghorn .209 with a bushnell 3-9x40 scope and weaver mounts. can hit a 2 inch orange dot 4 out of 5 shots at 100 yards.

SURVEYOR · « **Reply #1 on:** December 02, 2008, 04:38:05 PM »

My go to is a White Rifles Super 91 with a Burris 3x9 sitting on Warne Bases and Rings pushing a 460 grain No Excuses Conical with 85 grains of 777 ffg doing moa's at 100 yards while dirty or clean.

works for me

Redhawk1 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 02, 2008, 04:56:59 PM »

Savage Smokeless with a Nikon 3X9X40 Warne rings and Precision Rifle duplex 195 gr. sabots.

lil_hunter12 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 02, 2008, 04:58:03 PM »

i forgot to add i use 2 50 grain 777 pellets and a jacketed hollowpoint knight sabot 240 grain.

Semisane · « **Reply #4 on:** December 02, 2008, 06:06:48 PM »

Not a fair question Lil Hunter.

I hunt a 900 acre lease with 8 other guys and we each have our own little shack at the camp ground and most everyone shows up for the Friday evening hunt and stays until mid-day Sunday.

Last week end I hunted Friday evening from a ladder stand in thick woods with a Great Plains .54 flintlock with a Lyman peep sight and patched ball. Saturday morning I hunted over a long narrow 1/2 acre food plot (150 yards to the back tree line) with a .50 Lyman Mustang with a 3 x 9 Leupold scope and 300 grain Gold Dots over Triple 7. Saturday evening over a small round 1/3 acre plot with an Iron sighted .58 Zouave and patched ball. Sunday morning I was back on the 1/2 acre plot with the Mustang. Makes life interesting.

rks1949 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 03, 2008, 01:34:21 AM »

T/C Pro Hunter w/3 pyrodex pellets/250SW bullet/Fed 209A primer, Nikon Omega BDC scope this is my "main" gun for shooting open fields. Second is a Grey Hawk 54cal./PRB/90grs.T7/RWS#11 cap.fiber optic sights. This is the gun I use in heavy cover hunting,or still hunting.These two guns will cover any hunting conditions I hunt under,and "get'er done"

Ron

hogrdr · « **Reply #6 on:** December 03, 2008, 04:18:37 AM »

T/C Pro Hunter 95gr. BH209/ 250gr SWSG/ CCI primer

hawken_cougar · « **Reply #7 on:** December 03, 2008, 06:09:09 AM »

encore .50 ss, leupold 2-7x33, powerbelt 295 hp, 90grains trip 7, win trip7 primer

tc hawken cougar .50 with a stainless green mountain LRH barrel...shoot the exact same load as above but with 3fg goex black powder and #11cci...

love em both....

coop2564 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 03, 2008, 08:45:54 AM »

Gray lam Thumbhole Omega with 3x9 nikon, 105 gr BH 209, 245 gr barnes spitfire.

lil_hunter12 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 03, 2008, 09:44:18 AM »

i love them old caplocks and flint locks i have a springfield hawken and a cva hawken but my cva that i love so well is down and out needs to go to the smith if i can find one. and the springfield is so un reliable i never use it anymore.

Buckskins & Black Powder · « **Reply #10 on:** December 03, 2008, 09:56:09 AM »

Quote from: lil_hunter12 on December 03, 2008, 09:44:18 AM

i love them old caplocks and flint locks i have a springfield hawken and a cva hawken but my cva that i love so well is down and out needs to go to the smith if i can find one. and the springfield is so un reliable i never use it anymore.

Whats wrong with the cva hawken? Maybe i can help you out. And also with the springfield.

lil_hunter12 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 03, 2008, 10:52:59 AM »

the cva i tried to do some home smithing and now the hammer wont even lock back now. the spring field needs a good cleaning to start with but since i have alot of guns for some reason i havent cleaned it thoroughly lately. but when i last tried to shoot it it misfired alot. and i had to remove the nipple and put powder in there to get it to go off.

AndyHass · « **Reply #12 on:** December 04, 2008, 04:52:25 AM »

Omega thumbhole (bedded, pillared, floated) with Barska tactical scope (when the POS dies I'll spring for a $500 tactical to replace it), Burris Signature rings

110gr FFg 777 and 200 Shockwave at 2100 fps

Sub MOA to MOA to 400 yds

OR

Omega X7 with original peeps, with either 300gr bonded SW over 120gr 777 or 200gr SW over 110gr 777 depending what it is sighted in for at the time.

GRIMJIM · « **Reply #13 on:** December 04, 2008, 05:21:44 AM »

encore 209x50 with 25 acp conversion behind 2 50 grn 777 pellets and a 240 grain xtp. No scope, fibre optics.

Vic49 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 04, 2008, 06:27:22 AM »

CVA Accura 95 grs. BH209 under 240 gr. deadcenter bullets shoots inch and a half at a hundred

aldar · « **Reply #15 on:** December 04, 2008, 10:04:23 AM »

I went real cheap. CVA Wolf with open sights(only thing legal here in MN). 80grs of loose T7 under a Hornady 245grHP sabot. I can shoot 2" at 100yds and took a nice doe with it this morning.

burntmuch · « **Reply #16 on:** December 04, 2008, 10:37:15 AM »

Omega X7 leupold 2X7 200 grain SST over 70 grains BH209. Its still a virgin. This is the first year hunting with it.

ms · « **Reply #17 on:** December 04, 2008, 02:09:33 PM »

Enore with 3x9 Leupold vxll shooting 300 SST with mmp black sabot and 90 grain 777 fffg.

lefty red · « **Reply #18 on:** December 04, 2008, 02:22:01 PM »

Quote from: aldar on December 04, 2008, 10:04:23 AM

I went real cheap. CVA Wolf with open sights(only thing legal here in MN). 80grs of loose T7 under a Hornady 245grHP sabot. I can shoot 2" at 100yds and took a nice doe with it this morning.

Its what it does that counts! I'm thinking of doing the same thing. I just can't get myself to spend $650 on a rifle I will only shoot 10-15 times a year.

I'm thinking of a used CVA Optima 45 cal or a new Wolf in 50 cal.

Jerry

lil_hunter12 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 04, 2008, 03:33:16 PM »

ive had great luck out of the staghorn one can go to almost any pawn shop and pick one up for 50 or 75 bucks put a descent scope and mount on it and you got a great shooting rifle. the open sights are junk thats all can be said for them i couldnt get a descent bit of accuracy from them for it.

billy · « **Reply #20 on:** December 04, 2008, 03:36:28 PM »

I have a encore 50 caliber with 3x9x40 Nikon pro staff scope and shoot 110 grains of blackhorn 209 ,300 grain supergluide shockwaves.

winfan · « **Reply #21 on:** December 07, 2008, 05:12:43 PM »

T/C Prohunter Camo/stainless. I added a peep sights (Williams, I believe), factory front sight. 90 gr. 777 and 250 gr. Shockwave. This is my first year muzzleloading. Took a little 5 pt buck this morning.

Been wanting to try ML hunting for probably ten years, finally got around to it and now I'm really hooked.

Mike

ronbow · « **Reply #22 on:** December 10, 2008, 08:32:54 AM »

T/C Black Mountain Magnum, 270gr. Platinum Powerbelt, 100gr. loose 777, CCI musket cap. Just bought a T/C Omega X7 but haven't worked up a load for it yet ( gonna start with 100 gr. 777, SWSG 250 and Win 777 209s.)

nimrodder · « **Reply #23 on:** December 10, 2008, 03:58:54 PM »

White S-91 in .504 with a Leupld 1.5-6X42 shooting Bullshop 460gr conicals.

mechanic · « **Reply #24 on:** December 10, 2008, 04:32:46 PM »

TC Black Diamond, with Simmons shotgun scope. Blackhorn pushing a hand cast 320 gr. bullet. 209 primer. 2" or better @ 100.

Ben

ohiosam · « **Reply #25 on:** December 13, 2008, 02:35:34 PM »

Stainless Encore 50 cal. trigger job by SSK. Nikon Pro-staff 2-7 with T/C quik detach mounts. After several years of using 100gr loose T7 and 240 gr XTPs I switched to 110gr BH209 and 240gr SSTs.