What is the ELD-M, Berger, TMK of muzzleloader bullets?

[KnightExtreme]

My go to is the XTP 250 Grain with a Harvester Short Blk Sabot in my Knight Extreme .50 cal Blk Powder Muzzleloader. Expands well and Whitetail Deer don't like it much either!
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[MuleyFever]

That’s an issue with a full bore Barnes. I know of some that have tried annealing them to soften them. A wool wad helps as well. Some prefer a veggie wad. With the fury, arrowhead, pittman and Parker they all seem to have thin jackets and a relatively soft lead core that allows them obturate properly and expand. Most that I know still use a wad. The Parker BE shoots the best in mine, but the fury is a good economical choice. The Parker match hunter has probably done the most damage of all of them with the BE next in line for me. I’ll probably change to a Pittman clone next year.

The Pittman Aeromax keyholed in my 45 without a wad.

 

[BBob]

With the fury

I’ve had that specific issue with the Fury Universals. Too light a charge and keyhole’s, bumped it up and it was fine. In this case the integrated wad didn’t help.

 

[fatlander]

The barnes spitfire tez has never failed to impress me.


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[Brandon.miller.4]

209 primers are still not legal in Idaho.

You're correct, i may have misspoke. But they did liberate their muzzy laws was my point.

 

[Pickettpuncher]

I’ve had that specific issue with the Fury Universals. Too light a charge and keyhole’s, bumped it up and it was fine. In this case the integrated wad didn’t help.

Got a buddy that tried the universals in a standard encore and they didn’t shoot worth a crap. It was terrible.

The Pittman Aeromax keyholed in my 45 without a wad.

In a smokeless or regular muzzleloader and what was your charge? Unless undersized, I don’t know of any that keyholed without a wad, but they did shoot better. I tried to run some “youth” loads for my daughter once and had a lot of trouble until I got up the charge up.

 

[MuleyFever]

Got a buddy that tried the universals in a standard encore and they didn’t shoot worth a crap. It was terrible.

In a smokeless or regular muzzleloader and what was your charge? Unless undersized, I don’t know of any that keyholed without a wad, but they did shoot better. I tried to run some “youth” loads for my daughter once and had a lot of trouble until I got up the charge up.

Using BH209 in a Knight Mountaineer. I was using 85 gn by weight.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

The Thompson Center .50 caliber my mentor gave me shoots the SST .45 caliber sabots really well and they blow the hell out of whitetails. Here’s a pair of broken-horned bucks my nephew and I got. You can see the hole on the one on the right (a bit lower and further back than I’d like, but it was the young man’s first deer).