I never thought of it till last week while I was M L hunting in the misty fog. After the hunt, I removed the breech plug from my Optima and cleaned/dried it. I also removed the 2 pellets and replaced them with what I new was dry. I put the breech plug and went hunting the next day. That way I didnt waste a bullet. I just left it in there. Have any of you done this. This way I felt confident the next day that I wasnt gonna have a misfire. You can do it with a non break over as well, but not as easy. Do any of you do this?
I did that after the end of every hunting day this year. I saved the pellets to play with at the range. I even changed the sabot and bullet. It's too easy to take the old load out and replace it with a new load, in an inline, that there is no reason to take any chances by not putting in a fresh load.
Got back into muzzleloaders in 1999: There have been three hunting misfires/hangfires; two on wild hogs, the other on a 170 class buck. Last misfire was in 2003. The two misfires on hogs were due to a weak striker spring in my CVA Mag Hunter. Was hunting in the rain with my CVA StagHorn when that buck stepped out: The gun used #11 caps at the time.
When it's raining my guns get a finger cot on the muzzle. The guns stay loaded until they're fired at game.
A break over advantage
