Originally Posted by
FlaBoy18
Ok guys this past week I took a shot on a huge boar with my muzzleloader, I squeezed the trigger and it looked like a roman candle fireball shooting out of my barrel. It was going like 10 mph and landed right in front of this 300 lb boar before he trotted off laughing at me. It took all of my might not to wrap my gun around the tree like a belt. I was shooting Win 209 Primers and 777 Pellets out of an Optima. Anybody ever have or hear of this issue? What the heck happened
I called a powder company up one time and asked why I was having problems getting their powder to work well in my gun. They asked what 209 primer I was using and told them Winchester. They told me that the Win 209 premiers were the coolest primers on the heat scale!!! They recommended either CCI mag or Federal mag primers for their powder.
I found this scale on the internet:
Muzzleloading Primers
Hottest
CCI 209 In-Line MZL...241 f.p.s.
Fusion 209 In-Line.....236 f.p.s.
Remington ML............234 f.p.s.
Winchester ML............228 f.p.s.
Mildest
Winchester Triple 7....191 f.p.s.
I changed to the hotter primers and haven't had any problems since. It goes bang overtime. Used it in my CVA Apex and nailed my first wall hanger this year.