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Old 10-11-2007, 07:47 PM
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wabi
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Default RE: Any luck with 130 and 150 grain pellet loads?

When I had an Omega the 3 Pyrodex pellet load still had decent accuracy. Opened up a little from 100 grain load accuracy, but still good for hunting.
I'd drop back to 100 grains then work up until accuracy falls off if you want a maximum load.
Actually, these days I start at about 80 grains of loose and if it shoots good that's as far as I go. A deer inside 100 yards isn't going to know the differance, and that's where I shootabout allof them. In the past 10 years I don't remember shooting one past 80 yards, and I usually shoot one or two a year with the muzzleloader. I usually bow hunt up until gun season, then just use the same stands to hunt from. In most of those stands shots would be less than 60 yards.
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