As I had mentioned yesterday, I had an urge to shoot a side lock, so I took the .54 caliber Traditions Deerhunter with me. I wanted to try shooting some round balls with the blue jeans patches I cut up to see if I could get this rifle to group some round balls. So much for that idea. I couldn't even get the ball started in the bore with a blue jean patch. So I lubed some pillow tick patches with bore butter and began at 25 yards to sight the scope in. I never even bothered adjusting the scope because the round balls shot so poorly.
After 6 targets I gave up and decided to shoot some MMP Red .451-.452/.54 caliber sabots with some .45 caliber XTP's. I had not tried these sabots before and almost fainted when I saw the results.






Here is where it got real interesting. I was shooting 80 grains fff Goex under a red MMP .451-.452/.54 caliber sabot with a 240 grain, .45 caliber XTP. The first target is at 50 yards.

So I moved to 100 and shot this. This is a three shot group. The third shot nicked the paper right where the arrow is pointing. This group measures 7/8''.

After that I adjusted the scope to bring the group closer to the bulls eye and attempt the impossible, better the last group. This group measures 15/16''.

I believe the group on target number 8 is my best ever with a muzzle loader at 100 yards. I guess I was being a little unrealistic thinking I could better it on target #9. But it was still a pretty darn good group.