Muzzle Loader Bullets

[eagle rider]

How close do you think a Powerbelt 245 gr will print compared to a 250 TC Shockwave using the same powder charge?

[turkeyfeathers]

Hoping you're not going ML tomorrow to find out. I had to re sight when I switched from another 250 grain sabot to Shockwave 250 grain. It was 18" high and right at 50 yards. Same grain and same powder equalled huge variance

[ants]

Hard to say with out shooting it. But it might not be too far off.   My ML is sighted in with  300gr Hornady XTP's.  But the 300gr Shock Waves fly almost the same (with in 2") with the same charge. ( 100 grains of pyrodex-pellets)        Shoot em before you hunt.

Edited December 7, 2014 by ants

[Cabin Fever]

Why switch? Any experience with the 245gr Powerbelts? I used them before and wished I never had! They shot and grouped great, but left NO blood trail, even with perfectly placed broadside shots! If it wouldn't have been for snow, so I could follow their tracks, I never would have found the deer or known I had hit them!!

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Edited December 7, 2014 by Cabin Fever

[eagle rider]

Ugh, another PB horror story.  Yet I saw a guy in my camp drop a nice 5 pointer with a 45 cal PB.  I guess I just gotta use what I am set up for this season.  The 250 gr TC Shockwave with 2 White Hots should anchor a deer for me.  God willing a I get a shot.

[ants]

A friend of mine shot a deer a few years back with a power belt. 40 yards or so and the deer only went 30- 40 yds but the bullet blew up inside and there was no exit hole. I think it was a 250 gr bullet in front of 100gns of triple 7. when we gutted it there were tiny pieces of copper shrapnel everywhere,  and his insides were soup.