Loose VS. pellets
12-22-2006, 09:52 PM
#2
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Tupelo, MS
Posts: 1,238
RE: Loose VS. pellets
i JUST got into this stuff but i believe a pellet is much faster and tends to come in a 50gr size so typically you could just drop two down the barrel then your projectile and you're good. seems as though you can get more accurate and precise loads using loose.
12-22-2006, 10:19 PM
#4
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
RE: Loose VS. pellets
Loose powder is much cheaper to shoot. You can custom the loads a little easier then with pellets. With the pellets, they can be easier to make your charge, but the cost is why I avoid them. Although I do like them. Pellets are also harder to ignite. Both have advantages and disadvantages.. if you shoot a lot, loose is the way to go, unless you have a special key to the bank.
12-22-2006, 10:21 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Milwaukee Wi
Posts: 277
RE: Loose VS. pellets
I like the loose. You can be more precise with the loose powder. Sometimes the pellets can be off by as much as 10 grains, Plus if you crush them at all your accuracy will suffer big time.
12-22-2006, 11:47 PM
#7
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location:
Posts: 5,180
RE: Loose VS. pellets
I like loose alot better. my flintlock does great with 110 grains loose powder. That 10 grain adjustment really helps me out. As for speedloaders, they are also ment to be used with loose powder. If you use 100 grains powder and buy a 1lb can of blackpowder, you'll get around 70 shots. Thats quite a bit more than you'd get with pellets and loose powder is a lot cheaper. Why spend $28 for a few pellets when you can buy loose powder and get 70+ shots and beable to fine tune your load? Once you start shooting, you'll see how nice it is to use loose powder and be able to, like i said, Fine tune your loads.
12-23-2006, 04:28 AM
#8
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: OKC Ok. USA
Posts: 501
RE: Loose VS. pellets
I shoot flinters only so it's loose all the way. When looking for my best accuracy I'll measure out a load then dump it on my powder scale and each load after that will be measured to the same weight. Then each charge gets put into a 35mm film canisters.
12-23-2006, 07:14 AM
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: ne bama
Posts: 6,340
RE: Loose VS. pellets
i prefer loose also, my reason is that on my 209X50 encore barrel with the shape of the breech plug (concave) i was very uncomfortable with my bullet seating procedure, once i loaded it and the ramrod went 1/8-1/4 past my mark, i took the breech plug out and there was a crushed pellet, my accuracy is better with loose also
i was also worried aboutpowder to bullet and air around the chrage increasing pressure, may or may not have been an issue, i just know my gun shoots much better with loose
Plus if you crush them at all your accuracy will suffer big time.
12-23-2006, 08:22 AM
#10
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Saint Cloud, MN
Posts: 138
RE: Loose VS. pellets
Ruddy duck,
That is a great idea! Now if only I had kept just some of those darn containers. Now with all of digital craze, those little containers might be hard to find. Can you buy just the containers at a photo shop possibly?
Mike
That is a great idea! Now if only I had kept just some of those darn containers. Now with all of digital craze, those little containers might be hard to find. Can you buy just the containers at a photo shop possibly?
Mike