Late Muzzleloader season is coming and I have three doe tags. The father&son do not do muzzleloaders. I will have the run of the place. The CVA Paramount .45-cal will be used, of course. It has .450" bore and .462" groove, 1:22" twist. Uses Blackhorn 209 and an F-215 primer.
It could re-create the old paper-patch-bullet loads of Whitworth, Metford, and Gibbs. But I will have to stick with the Power Belt ELR version for now. That is a .450"-diameter bullet of soft lead, copper plated and plastic skirted, that obturates into .462" grooves !
A soft lead, 0.442"-diameter, slick bullet, paper-patched up to .450" bore (muzzle-loaded) and weighing 500-ish grains might do well in the CVA Paramount, like the old .45-bore ML loads targeted to 1000 yards, ancestors to the MIGHTY .458 WINCHESTER MAGNUM. Or the Lyman "Volunteer" .451"/450-gr might work as a grease-lubed muzzleloader bullet in the CVA Paramount. See top of this page.
I’ll be using my Ultimate ML with 300 grain Parker Black Maxes and 120 grains of BH209 By weight. It’s like a single shot 375 kicking those big 300’s down range.
