Originally Posted by Doug100g

Here is my 4 cents;

One: With 777, I must swab between every shot. I cannot even get two shots off using my t/c omega with 240g xtp's unless I put my entire 300lbs behind it. As long as I swab all is well. Nothing like needing to use a swab puller because the cleaning jag lossses the patch.

Two: No matter what I do my plug locks up. Teflon tape, grease and re-grease till the cows come home and yet, when it comes time to clean the gun after a day of shooting, I will need Jeff Gordon's pit crew to air wrench the breech plug off. It was only 5 weeks ago that I almost failed to remove the plug and was ready to head to the gun smith. This erks me because my gun is cleaned immaculately after each shooting session.

With Blackhorn 209, I made 25 shots in a row, with no swabbing. The 25th load was as easy as the first.

10 days of sitting in my Omega during gun week did not hurt it either. No rust after letting it sit after shooting and the plug came out like butter.

Three: Easy to clean. At first it was a pain to use gun solvents to clean when I was used to using water. But my last cleaning of my muzzy from 209 took 15 minutes and that included the plug.



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