Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Muzzleloaders BH209-I'm a believer.

Just got in from trying this stuff out for the first time and all I can say is "Wow".
No crud ring and every bullet goes down like the one before.
I was shooting my TC Bone Collector. Got in 20 shots before the I was rained out.
I had my chronograph set up. Here are a few velocities for those interested.
Hornady 240 gr. XTP's 90 grs. gave me 1685 fps. Following couple shots gave me real slow readings (600 fps,585 fps,) I think due to the sabot. At any rate I moved the chronograph closer and had no more issues.
I went right to the Barnes 290 gr. TMZ with Harvester yellow crush ribbed sabots. 90 grs. gave 1681 fps.
Wanting more than that I jumped to 110 grs. for 1877,1881, and 1871 fps.
That was a bit more like it.
120 grs. gave 1971,1984, 1975 fps.
I had three Hornady 350 gr. FPB's left over. I really like these bullets. They slid down very easily after starting them. I cut back to 110 grs. and velocities were 1776,1772,1763 fps into a nice tight group.
Accuracy wise everything shot good. I was shooting at 100 yards off the hood of my truck in a pretty good wind a drizzle
and was more or less looking for velocities and adjusting my point of aim. I planned on stretching things out to 200 yards for accuracy testing but got rained out.
I was shooting three shot strings for velocity and all the groups were two inches or less with bullets touching on a few occasions.
My Bone Collector weighs 7 pounds on the nose with a Nikon In line 3-9 and DNZ mounts minus the rod as I was shooting. I was surprised out how much the Sims pad, and I think even the energy bars contribute, softened the recoil. This gun is a pussy cat to shoot.
I'm pretty happy with the Nikon scope. It has a pretty forgiving eye box and gobs of eye relief. Dang nice glass too. Good adjustments and pretty nice mini turrets under the caps.
The BH 209 made it a real joy to shoot. No patching, crud ring or varying force needed to push the bullets down. Consistent.

Won't flow for chit through my brass flask so I am going to have to do something there.
But yeah, there is no going back.

Yep, I found out the same and bought the Thompson Center U-View Black Powder Flask Clear Polymer. Works fine with BH209

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/790582/thompson-center-u-view-black-powder-flask-clear-polymer

Blackhorn is good stuff.


ddj

The clear measure does work just fine in the field. I find myself just weighing charges and placing them in vials at the house before shooting. Very consistent stuff.

this is what I do as well.

I bought a $2.00 clear plastic ketchup bottle to use as a flask.

It does the job. I'm cheap.

Thanks for the link CW.

Looks like I'll have to get myself some vials!

FVA,

Their was a cat on ebay selling them cheap a while back. I picked up 50. Type in BH209 or Black Horn 209 in the ebay search and it should pop up. If you dont have an ebay acct and still want some, shoot me a pm. I'll order them and have them shipped to you, you can just send me the payment.

Have a good one,

loder

Thank you for the offer loder. I have an account and will give that a try.

http://frontiermuzzleloadin.powerguild.net/t395-lane-s-powder-tubes

Try these...price is right. I used the long 10ml tubes in 2011 and they worked great. Lane is a good guy and shipping is quick

They look like just the ticket CW. Thanks again.

No Problem.

Sucker! I paid $2.00 for a clear plastic bottle with the ketchup still in it...

Yeah so what.

I didn't have to wash it out. Plus ...

I get my ketchup for free at McDonalds.

Blackhorn is Good.
777 is For Sale.

I put my Black Powder that was in my measure back in the can but dumped the remainder of my T7

Soon as I get all the 777 shot up I hope to be a believer in 209 myself, for my inlines.

Gunner

They have 5lb jugs of it available for the bulk shooters.

Thanks Bigblock.

Gunner