Recent content by zmason1002

My plan was to keep the powder in the tubes and they have snap caps and then put them in a plastic Ziploc baggie.

I was wondering how long you can leave the tubes loaded with black powder. I have a few and thought about weighing out my charges but I don't want to weigh them and then have to dump them back in the bottle if I don't use them. Can you leave the powder in them for a week??

I bought a knight mountaineer .50 Cal bare 209, no scope for 619 new. Just need to scope it now.

I think I'm just going to stick with a .50 cal Knight mountaineer, get my feet wet and comfortable with muzzle loading and then branch out to smokeless later on down the road, you can never have to many guns. I have a wife that bow hunts and I'm trying to get her to gun hunt with me also so in...

Do you know when the 1:20 twist will come out?? I wish Knight had the .50 cal in a faster twist. I wish it had the 1:26 twist. I feel the 1:28 is a little to slow for some of the bullets. That's one reason I'm leaning towards the Remington also, with that twist and the range of powder you...

with a .45 cal do you shoot sabotless or with sabots?? I don't know anything about the .45s

Another thing also, I shoot rifles and shotguns. I still clean them after so many shots, or after deer season. don't get me wrong shooting a black powdered you have to clean them after every time, but to not clean a gun but just once is scary to me. I even clean my .22 more than once.

I've debated on smokeless but I was hoping to stay right around a $1k scoped. I'm still looking, I really have it narrowed down to the Remington and Mountaineer, Leaning more towards the mountaineer incase I was to take it on an out of state hunt.

Nice!!

Thanks for your input. That was my feelings as well and after looking at bullet selection for .52 there wasn't a whole lot.

Why the bare 209? What is the advantage of it? Also .50 or .52 cal?

Also I say I want to shoot out to 250 + yards but I really want to do that just for fun. around $1000 is where I want to stay for budget, with or with out a scope. I know people say you are to spend more on a scope than the gun but I have shot lower end scopes and have done well enough with...

Hey, I'm new to the forum and some what new to muzzle loading. I borrowed a friends old Knight last year and took a smaller doe with it and now I'm wanting to buy my own. I have it down to 3 choices and I'm wondering if you guys and gals could help me decide. 1) Knight Mountaineer 2)...

Hey guys new here and fairly new to muzzle loading. I borrowed an older 50 cal Knight from my buddies dad and I'm shooting Hodgdon FFFG around 100grns volume, I don't remember what bullets I used to be honest. I would foul it with two #11 cci caps and then the first shot would be high and to...