Doug Herold
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I hunt with a 50 cal Redemption. The gun, up until this year has performed flawlessly. Accurate as most Center fire rifles. I load Blackhorn powder in the gun and up until this year have been using Remington primers in it. Well, I was getting low on primers and my local dealer didn't have Remingtons in stock, so I bought CCi's.
My cousin and I were hunting together one "COLD" morning. Temps were in very low teens. He texted me that he was not able to "get on" a very good deer that went above him. Since I was higher on the mtn, I knew the deer was between us. Easing along, I jumped the deer and was able to put a round in him. The shot hit him high (spine) and I needed to follow up. On the 2nd. shot the gun hang fired, when it finally went off, I had already pulled off the deer ( because the rifle never did this with the Remington primers). The nxt two follow up shots failed completely with the CCI's. I had to text my cousin to come kill the animal... very bad.
Of course the CCI's are in the trash and I'm going back to the Remington primers. Any other thoughts on the Redemption, effects of very cold weather,
on primers, etc.???... I also noted that the spent CCI's left much heavier powder residue around the primer and breech.
My cousin and I were hunting together one "COLD" morning. Temps were in very low teens. He texted me that he was not able to "get on" a very good deer that went above him. Since I was higher on the mtn, I knew the deer was between us. Easing along, I jumped the deer and was able to put a round in him. The shot hit him high (spine) and I needed to follow up. On the 2nd. shot the gun hang fired, when it finally went off, I had already pulled off the deer ( because the rifle never did this with the Remington primers). The nxt two follow up shots failed completely with the CCI's. I had to text my cousin to come kill the animal... very bad.
Of course the CCI's are in the trash and I'm going back to the Remington primers. Any other thoughts on the Redemption, effects of very cold weather,