I've had them not even hit the target paper let alone the backboard behind it when I first started out. It only took me about 1 year of shooting to land really good solid 3 shot group MOA at 100 yards in 2 different guns.
Nothing beats heading to the gun range about every weekend....LOL
I'm not new to muzzleloaders, been shooting them for at least 25 years. This one was just the oddest time I've had with one. I also heard from someone, on another forum, that the sabots I was using (blue Harvester crush rib 50/40)fail a lot with heavy loads. This was the 1st time I've ever used them, so that may be the problem. As far as going to the range every weekend, that's a lot of unnecessary work. I can just go out on my porch any day............
