paper patched lee 501-440: white muzzleloader, cva wolf
01-21-2013, 02:25 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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paper patched lee 501-440: white muzzleloader, cva wolf
finally I got to the range. took the paper patch bullets idohoron made for me.
70grs pyrodex p
wolf: fed. fusion primers
white lighting (the gun not the drink): remington #11 (had just enough for this test)
scopes: wolf: konus 3-9 x40, white: tc 3-9 x40
50yrds white lighting, slipped right down the barrel the rifling catching the paper. shows promise
until I keyholed one
50yrds cva wolf. this gun seems to like this set up at this distance.
sight in.
forgot to load the bullet on the first shoot. shot one blank.
100yrds with the wolf, the wind picked up to 15 to 20mph, started moving my target around. but still, that is only a 6 inch target.
the recoil was not that bad at all.
70grs pyrodex p
wolf: fed. fusion primers
white lighting (the gun not the drink): remington #11 (had just enough for this test)
scopes: wolf: konus 3-9 x40, white: tc 3-9 x40
50yrds white lighting, slipped right down the barrel the rifling catching the paper. shows promise
until I keyholed one
50yrds cva wolf. this gun seems to like this set up at this distance.
sight in.
forgot to load the bullet on the first shoot. shot one blank.
100yrds with the wolf, the wind picked up to 15 to 20mph, started moving my target around. but still, that is only a 6 inch target.
the recoil was not that bad at all.
01-21-2013, 05:34 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Did you use an over powder wad with these bullets? The load most of the rifles like I have shot is 80 gr of pyrodex P with an over powder wad. That key hole is odd. I have not seen that happen. I have never known anyone to shoot those bullets out of those guns but I would have thought they should have grouped better.
01-21-2013, 08:27 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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It might. The blow by on the White might have been the reason for the tumble. I also wonder a little about the hardness of the lead. I don't think that would be a problem but I got to wonder. Wasn't the bore on the white kind of questionable? Ron
01-22-2013, 11:19 AM
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it was when I first got it. since then I cleaned it up really well. the bore is not pitted. just looked worst then it really was. shoots powerbelts just fine. shot 3 just to see if there was anything wrong, those are about the same diameter as those boolits.
I may wrap some with the paper I got, I have about 20 or 30casted up, I know that lead is much softer.
I may wrap some with the paper I got, I have about 20 or 30casted up, I know that lead is much softer.
