RE: 209 primers - too hot or not?
When i got back into muzzleloading after many years i was determined to use Pyrodex pellets. Well, i found out that #11 caps in my Stag Horn would not reliably light pellets. Changed it over to take musket primers and it seemed to workwell until i missed out onthe nicest OK buck i ever saw due to a hangfire. Changed it again to accept 209 primers and that was the end of the problem for me. Except for Clean Shot pellets, that is.Never had any success in lighting Clean Shot pellets in any of the three CVA rifles that i have owned. 209 primers just would not do it, tried several different brands with out success. They will light very well when boosted with five grains of Pyrodex.i totally gave up on Clean Shot pellets. Fired up the last of them the other day.