Need help sighting a ML

chevymanar · 10-15-2009, 09:40 AM

Hey guys I was really late getting a new muzzleloader this year.

I haven't had a chance to sight it in so my Dad offered to do it for me. The problem is that the longest place he had available was around 25yards.

He has it shooting about 1/4" high at 25yds and I am curious as to how much it will rise or drop at 100yds.

The gun is a 50cal Traditions Buckstalker using 250grain T/C Shockwave bullets and 100 grains of Triple 7 pellets.

I wish I had more time to take it someone at 100yds, but I just won't have the time/daylight to do this before opening morning (this Saturday).

cayugad · 10-15-2009, 09:44 AM

I am not going to guess. For instance I have a rifle that at 25 yards is an inch high. At 50 yards its about an inch and a half high. At 75 yards it is amost right on the money. At 100 an inch low. Would I shoot out to 100 yards.. sure. Aim dead center kill and fire. But I know the rifle.

All we can do is guess. But you need to get to a range and shoot it. It should be close though. Close meaning inches.

chevymanar · 10-15-2009, 09:52 AM

I'm going to shoot it for sure and Saturday morning my longest shot would be 50yds. I just want to know in case I cross the pipeline and big daddy is standing down there. LOL

cayugad · 10-15-2009, 10:07 AM

Well if you'd aim for the center or top third kill area at long ranges you should be in the kill zone. But once on the range will answer a lot of your questions. Good luck.

Big Z · 10-15-2009, 12:04 PM

I'm gonna guess cayugad's about spot on. If I remember right, the buckstalker is a 24" bbl which will decrease velocity over normal ~28" inline bbls, so a steeper trajectory. Your sight height, be it a scope mounted on a certain height of rings, or open sights will also change things up. But without all that mumbo-jumbo you're probably going to be an inch or two low at 100

chevymanar · 10-15-2009, 12:16 PM

Thank you for the response.

HEAD0001 · 10-15-2009, 12:37 PM

I hate to be a spoiler. But going into the woods with rifle that you know is not sighted in at the proper distances is not a very ethical thing to do. Unless you really do not care if you cripple an animal or not?? And taking a shot at the big boy with a rifle that you have not even shot-or do not even know if it is sighted in properly?? Well that is pretty sad IMO. Tom.

hometheaterman · 10-15-2009, 02:26 PM

On my old muzzle loader with 295 grain Powerbelt Hollow points it was about 2" high or so at 50 yards and dead on as in I could shoot the bullseye out of the target at 100 yards.

It's really no way to tell as said as most are different. You really need to be able to shoot it.

Buck Hunter 1 · 10-16-2009, 04:06 AM

If you absolutely have to do this on the opener, Steel your self not to shoot more than 50 yards. It is your responsibility to do that. Later in the a.m. come out of the woods and shoot it in at 100 yards. You don't want to blow a leg off an animal because you couldn't get the time to range the gun.

chevymanar · 10-16-2009, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by HEAD0001

I hate to be a spoiler. But going into the woods with rifle that you know is not sighted in at the proper distances is not a very ethical thing to do. Unless you really do not care if you cripple an animal or not?

Well Tom... if you would have read my original post, (which apparently you didn't) you would have seen where I do know how the gun is sighted in for the woods. It was the open road/gas line that I wasn't sure of.

Now your post and Buck Hunter 1's post made me realize that taking that long shot was not the correct thing to do. I really hadn't thought about that, I was getting buck fever and wasn't thinking logically. I plan to shoot my gun at 100 yards when i get off my stand at lunch time.

I appreciate you being my "spoiler" and all, but the same point was made by Buck Hunter 1 in a much better manner.