Originally Posted by captchee
thought i would throw this video out there .
Thanks to Birddog 6 for posting this on another forum

There is one thing Im not sure I agree with in the video and that�s the recommendation of not using 3F powders in a rifle . maybe one of you experienced modern shooters could explain this to me as 3F is commonly used in both smooth and rifled traditional guns . so im not to sure what the reasoning behind this comment was

I also wish they had gone into showing the effects of duplex loading. For some reason here in the last couple years I have been seeing cases of this . IE people mixing powder . In a couple cases even low base smokeless with Black powder and in a couple other cases , low base mixed with modern synthetic
Powders . None of which IMO is a very smart thing to do .

Past that I thought showing the barrel failures was interesting . Not so much the failures themselves , but how each manufactures barrels handled the failures.

http://www.cva.com/dangerous-loading-practices.php


They wasted a lot of guns making that video and it was pretty unbiased since they used 3 different brands. Pretty informative and drives home the point that you have to be careful when you load a muzzleloader... No clue why the 3f was mentioned other then maybe there is inconsistency in the material from different manufacturers.

I have a friend that is a gun dealer and he muzzle load hunts. He has been using modern smokeless powder in an encore for years...He thinks bh209 is too expensive. Oh well and I hope nothing happens to him he is a great guy to deal with.