The NW Florida muzzleloader season is this weekend. So after I got back a few weeks ago from the central zone ML hunt, I dropped one of my guns while cleaning it. I had hunted in the rain so I needed to pull the forearm off the gun to clean it. When I did the barrel and assembly crashed to the ground and knocked the scope loose. Since then I took the scope mounts and rings off and replaced them to be safe. I remounted the scope, and re-bore sighted. I am switching to shockwaves from powerbelts anyway so it is a good excuse to head up to the range for some bench time. I have a laser bore sighter, and amazingly it was pretty close when I checked it
The sound of your favorite muzzleloader bouncing off of concrete is one of those sounds that instills in your brain and you have nightmares about. 🙁
Will post a range report tomorrow afternoon
where do you shoot?
Dade city rod and gun club
i heard those bore sights are not worth the crap.. thats just what im told.. you have to resight for every typ of bullet you will use to hunt.. when i used the 180gr bullets i was not even on the peper at 100 yards.. but when i went to the 150gr i was dead bullseye. so how would you adjust a bore sight to the bullet you use?
Lazer bore sighters are only to get you close or on the paper. you gotta shot it to fine tune to your ammo. the kind I have is not very accurate
The one I have is pretty cool. Me and a buddy split the price of it a few years back and it paid for itself in saving ammo getting sighted in. It has a different o-ring for each caliber that goes on an arbor that goes in the barrel. You aim the laser on this crosshair card that came with it, then adjust your crosshairs to the ones on the card. I have done several scopes with it and they have all been within 5 inches of zero
I had my Mossy 12gauge laser bore sighted to the new 2x scope, Shot it sat afternoon before leaving the hunt, put 2 gayoraide bottles on branches at about 50yrds....It was dead on with the Winchester 1ounce slugs I use. I was very impressed, no need to touch it anymore...
Well my gun is back on. First pic is the gun I dropped. You can see my first shot off to the left by several inches
I brought it over and put three shots touching.
Moved it to 100 yards and put it pretty dern close. That is all you can ask for from a muzzleloader
Drug out the 7mm to check it out. Shot was to the right a tad, so a minor adjustment and I had two shots touching
Pulled out my old muzzleloader and busted off 4 shots at 100. First shot was high and right, but i over adjusted. I finally got 2 shots in the 10 ring. Good enough for government work
