ORIGINAL: ENCOREMAN
eldequello,
Have you been to the prbullet web site and read what they have to say about the 209 primer being to hot? They claim the 209 is so hot it lifts the sabot off the powder charge causing fliers.
Toby Bridgeshas an article on the variflame primer adapters on hpmuzzleloading.com After reading his article and others like it, I feel it's worth a try.
I'm still skeptical, but I'm alsocurious and I want to eliminate those unexplained fliers.I'm looking forward to giving this a real workout. I just need some good weatherand a little time.
No, I haven't been to the pr website. Since I don't use sabots, it is not of much interest to me. But I can see where what you describe might bhappen IF ytour powder charge is not immediately ignited, and the holes in those powder pellets might just permit the primer detonation wave to each the bullet befopre powder gases reach sufficient pressures to move a bullet.
Using 209's in my sidelocks has not proven to be a problem, as these two 100 yard groups show. I use loose powder. The .50 was with ClearShot FFFg, and the .45 was shot with 777. The .50 had a Vel. of 1740@ 10 feet, and I did not chronograph the .45, which used 90 grains of T7 FFg.
The .50 was shot with a home-cast 370-grain MaxiBall, and the .45 was with a 250-grain Maxiball. Both shot from Hawken sidelocks having Bill Large RB slow-twist barrels......
