Originally Posted by Mauser_Hunter
Originally Posted by kman
I got a savage ml2 this year for ML season. I worked up a load that shots 1" at 100 with 260gr bullets at 2275 fps. No cleaning, seating subsequent bullets is easy etc. Can't beat it.

2 years ago I shot twice at a buck and missed with my traditions ML using pyrodex pellets. Seating the third bullet required me to ram my rod against the tree I was standing next too. I don't take cleaning stuff along when I go into the woods and shooting more than once can and does happen when you have cannon ball trajectories.


Just to be fair. You can take 50 shots with BH 209 with no swabbing and sub MOA accuracy at the 50th shot. Loads as easy at the 50th shot as the first. You just used the wrong powder. Pyrodex is old powder technology.


Yes I use 209 in that ML now and my wife uses it. If you are somehow trying to make b209 the same as smokeless, it's not. B209 costs more per can than smokeless and you get less in it, I have to use twice as much b209 (100gr by weight) vs smokeless (44gr)and get less speed. It's certainly the best you can do in old muzzle loaders.