Does anyone else know a rough estimate what my FPS should be with my setup :cva accura Mr-x, 2 IMR white hots (100G), cheddite primer, & 290G Hornady boredrivers?
So I want to update this, as I’m unfortunately still unable to get good (huntable) groups at 100 yards. Yesterday I shot at 50 and it wasn’t great but it was close. I moved by turret up to clicks and moved target back to 100 yards. First shot I completely miss target… hoping it’s a fluke I shoot again and hit 2” high and 2” to the right. Next shot is touching then following shot hit low but still not horrible then my last shot is so low it misses the paper and hits bottom right, almost 12” lower than previous shot…. Wtf… at this point I was going to call or email cva to see what they thought but they’re closed for holidays.. I’m thinking I got an accura lemon (I’ve seen lots of people say this about the Mr-x), or it’s that damn breech plug. Maybe the pellets aren’t sitting flush. Can’t find another one available so does anybody know for certain, that I can use the black horn breech plug with pellets? If not my next step is trying some BH 209. If that don’t work I’ll swap scopes and after all that, it’s getting sold if I can’t get at least 2”-3” groups at 100 (which I would consider bad but I’m new to muzzleloaders so not sure what’s realistic). Again, it’s ok at 50 yards but completely falls apart at 100 yards.
Have you put a reliable scope on there to verify it’s the gun versus your scope shifting all over before you go complaining to CVA? Frankly it sounds like a scope issue with the wandering shots.
Both my CVAs shoot tight at 100yd with open sights.