ORIGINAL: XxHolleyxX
Well I just finished cleaning the T-Bolt from top to bottom. The barrel looks perfect. I cant believe it came out this nice. shiny and smooth without a hint of corrosion. It must not have sat for too long.
I love this trigger...very crisp, no creep, or drag, not heavy at all.
I had a Bushnell Elite 3200 3 x 9 x 40 waiting to go on another gun, but I stuck it on the T-Bolt instead.
250 grain XTP
250 grain Shock Waves
250 grain Barnes Spit-Fire TMZ Expanders
295 grain Powerbelt Aerotips
Loose Pyrodex RS FFG
Pyrodex pellets
Gonna test it out tomorrow morning (uh thus morning..time to go to bed). I hopeit shoots and I canfind a decent load. A couple of friends are gonna come over to my range and sight in their muzzleloaders also. I just got finished with a new heavy lh/rh bench and were looking forward to trying it out.
Thanks for the help guys,
Holley
My opinion on bullets is in the following ORDER and WHY:
Best Barnes Spit-Fire TMZ expander, they mushroom well and have 100% weight retention, they are great IF they shoot well in your gun. Cost is a buck each.
Next best 250g SW, for close shots (<75-100 yards) shoot for the shoulder blade, since they tend to NOT expand on close shots.
Next best XTP, tend to loose their weight on close shots < 50 yards. Ususally kils the deer on close shots since the lead usually penetrates into the chest cavity with the jacket busting up. Good all around inexpensive bullet. A better choice is the Speer Gold Dot, it is bonded to the lead and won't seperate.
295g PB, if you shoot them over 1400 feet per second, they fragment and you get a wounded deer. No should hits or they fragment. Perfect bow shots are fine with this bullet. Great shooting, great loading. If you want the "negative on PB", without a war read this:
http://www.the-gleasons.com/powerbelt_page.htm
Just pretend your shooting a "long range" bowand wait for a bow shot with PB bullet and you will be fine. Unless you have great vision, limit your shots to <100 yards even with a scope, since you could hit the shoulder blade, and you will wound the animal you will NOT kill it, since there is not enough of the PB to get into the chest cavity into the Lungs. Of couse this is from the school of hard knocks and this my opinion only, other hunters love them, other hunters do well with them.
Chap Gleason