yes using patched ball, and yes I think the ball is .490 which now makes sense that you need a .010 patch for .50 cal barrel.
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I will be using the patched ball for breaking in and sighting the barrel.
and just before deer season I am switching to the hornady sabotted round, will sight it in, and hope I get lucky 🙂
Why switch? What rate of twist is the barrel? If it's a fast twist (1 in 30 or so) you'd be better off using sabots but if it's a slow twist (1 in 66 or so) you'll probably see better results with the PRB. There's not going to be much of a difference if any in killing effectiveness between the two types of projectiles in and of themselves, no matter what the "experts" on T.V. say.....take that Toby Bridges!!
Ok great. I'm going to head to the range with mine in a few weeks too. I have a TC Omega though.
the barrel is 1 in 26 twist so they recommend the sabot round for best results.
again, gonna use patch and ball to break in and learn black powder.
I already hate pouring the powder from the horn into the charge funnel, there has to be a faster easier way to get the powder into the charge funnel?
My friend has charges pre-measured into small tubes? I am using loose powder FF pyrodex right now.
I have seen the new pelletized powders but they only come in 50 grain pellets, not much flexability if you want to use 80 grains of powder so thats why i chose loose powder.
From a safety standpoint, you shouldn't pour from the horn directly into the barrel. Use a flask with a shutoff vale or something similar or pour from the horn into a powder measure then pour that into the barrel. Maybe that's what you are doing already?
I'm never in a big rush at the range so pouring from the horn into the measure and then into the barrel isn't a big deal for me.
yes I am pouring from the horn into a powder measure, sorry if i didnt use the correct term.
I have powder blowing away as I pour and getting all over the ground so thats the real pain.
not to mention I always seem to overfil and waste stuff as it fills up the powder measure.
