How fast can you reload your Muzzleloader?
#1
How fast can you reload your Muzzleloader?
Looking to survey how quickly you can reload your Muzzleoader (safely and comfortably) during a hunting situation.
Using my speedloaders and sabot with Barns all copper, along with 209 primer, I can comfortably reload my gun under 1 minute.
Doug
Using my speedloaders and sabot with Barns all copper, along with 209 primer, I can comfortably reload my gun under 1 minute.
Doug
#3
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
My .54 flintlock, less than 30 seconds...
I use a loading block, a thinner patch, have a preset measure on the thong with the
block...All this added together makes for a fairly quick reload...
My inline, 2-3 minutes because I clean the barrel between shots...
Just for the record, in over 30 years of muzzleloading for deer, I've never needed to quickly reload for a second shot at the same animal...I did have 2 other bucks walk through after shooting the first one time...Funny thing is, I was using my inline, if I had
of taken the flinter, I would have been reloaded....btw, I shot the smallest, they kept getting bigger...
Muzzleloading is always about the 1st shot...
I use a loading block, a thinner patch, have a preset measure on the thong with the
block...All this added together makes for a fairly quick reload...
My inline, 2-3 minutes because I clean the barrel between shots...
Just for the record, in over 30 years of muzzleloading for deer, I've never needed to quickly reload for a second shot at the same animal...I did have 2 other bucks walk through after shooting the first one time...Funny thing is, I was using my inline, if I had
of taken the flinter, I would have been reloaded....btw, I shot the smallest, they kept getting bigger...
Muzzleloading is always about the 1st shot...
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tug Hill NY
Posts: 420
Never needed a 2nd shot in the field. I also swab my inlines, but I have found from a once shot barrel, I do have acceptable accuracy for an unswabbed 2nd shot, so with practiced follow up shots under field conditions, less than 30 seconds from a speedloader retrieved from my pocket.
#6
This guy does three shots in 46 seconds with a flintlock.
You'll love the hangfire on the last shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMbxZ1k9NQ
You'll love the hangfire on the last shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMbxZ1k9NQ
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
This guy does three shots in 46 seconds with a flintlock.
You'll love the hangfire on the last shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMbxZ1k9NQ
You'll love the hangfire on the last shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMbxZ1k9NQ
I could load blanks that easily as well...