Toledodoeshooter
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Hello All! I have been reviewing your forum for the past few weeks and have already gained a good amount of knowledge thanks for that. New to muzzleloaders and some of this info may already be out there figured I’ll post the question. Just got a cva wolf, vortex scope, went shooting for the first time today. Using two 777 pellets and SST 250 grain bullets. Since purchasing those after doing more digging it seems like I should look for something else due to bullet expansion issues. Shot the gun today for the first time and it was going great until it didn’t. Started at 25 yards went to 50 and then to 100 shot two or three at 100 with I’ll say 4 inch groups. I was running a damp and then dry patch down the boar and cleaning out the breech plug about every three shots. And then I gave the gun more of a deep clean using a wire brush and then running patches through and it was like my POI completely changed and I was just about off paper at 100 yards. I thought scope at first but then I thought maybe it was because of the more deep clean at that point I was down to about five bullets left so I decided I would do the same deep clean in between every shot and make adjustments. That got me to about a good enough group to hunt with I would have been hitting a paper plate but I’ll need some more adjustments. I’m not sure completely if it’s the scope or the barrel heating up or the cleaning procedure it may be another week or two before I can get back out to the range. I was surprised by the amount of buildup and I’ve done a good amount of reading suggesting using black powder so I’m already thinking about making that change as well so here’s the questions.
1) do you think the cleaning process would have changed my point of impact that much? It seems like that’s the culprit but I’m not 100% certain yet
2) can I shoot loose powder with the stock breech plug or do I need to order a different one?
3) if I switch to loose powder do I need to change primers as well?
Any insight or other general tips are appreciated the gun with a bang every time so that’s good but I can see this is definitely a different thing than standard rifles
1) do you think the cleaning process would have changed my point of impact that much? It seems like that’s the culprit but I’m not 100% certain yet
2) can I shoot loose powder with the stock breech plug or do I need to order a different one?
3) if I switch to loose powder do I need to change primers as well?
Any insight or other general tips are appreciated the gun with a bang every time so that’s good but I can see this is definitely a different thing than standard rifles
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