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- Nov 17, 2016
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So I got bored today and decided to go foul the bore on the muzzleloader so I made up 6 shots at 70gr weighed of blackhorn 209 and headed to the range and fired 4 primers to dry the oil and loaded my charge and fired and hit dead center bull. I knew this was wrong because my last group was 1'' left so I loaded #2 and fired and hit a little low, #3 hit 1.5'' left, #4 hit almost touching #3, #5 and #6 grouped about 1.5'' inches at 100yards so I set out to adjust the crosshairs to hit dead center. Below is where it gets funky.
I ran my little drill bit in the breech plug, nipple pick and loaded my charge and adjusted the crosshairs but I think Nikon goofed my scope up cause the windage is opposite of what it should be so I had to fire a few more until I remembered it was different so I load a charge and bullet and being a little POD at the scope and wasting supplies I nipple picked with a charge and realized it and put a primer in, cocked the hammer and click, bang, bang and hit the 3'' shoot n c. Now I am pretty sure that I had fire come through the trigger group when it fired and I had 2-3 primers that the primer was raised higher than the cup. Next 2 shots were all over the place so I figured it was due to the raised primers and too dirty bore so i ran one patch in the bore, loaded, fired and hit the shoot n c twice so I packed it up and left. The raised primers and hangfire concerned me. I also noticed what appears to be burn marks on the large piece of metal under the barrel/breech plug.
Now it was -16 so i left the scale at home and used my TC u view measure and set it at 100gr. Would this have anything to do with what happened above? I cant see poking the nipple pick in there causing a hangfire but who knows.
I ran my little drill bit in the breech plug, nipple pick and loaded my charge and adjusted the crosshairs but I think Nikon goofed my scope up cause the windage is opposite of what it should be so I had to fire a few more until I remembered it was different so I load a charge and bullet and being a little POD at the scope and wasting supplies I nipple picked with a charge and realized it and put a primer in, cocked the hammer and click, bang, bang and hit the 3'' shoot n c. Now I am pretty sure that I had fire come through the trigger group when it fired and I had 2-3 primers that the primer was raised higher than the cup. Next 2 shots were all over the place so I figured it was due to the raised primers and too dirty bore so i ran one patch in the bore, loaded, fired and hit the shoot n c twice so I packed it up and left. The raised primers and hangfire concerned me. I also noticed what appears to be burn marks on the large piece of metal under the barrel/breech plug.
Now it was -16 so i left the scale at home and used my TC u view measure and set it at 100gr. Would this have anything to do with what happened above? I cant see poking the nipple pick in there causing a hangfire but who knows.