I recently bought a NIB New England Firearms, 50 x 209 muzzle loader.
The sales clerk also sold me some 240 grain Hornady saboted bullets, and 777 powder. I'm shooting 2 ea of the 50 gr pellets each shot.
The best I can get this thing to shoot at 100 yds (using a substantial rest) is cutting paper on an 8 inch Shoot N C target. I shoot for dead center and it lands somewhere in the paper.
I know this is a lot better than my old shotgun & slugs, . . . but I would like to get it down to at least a 4 or maybe a 3 in spread instead of the 8 I have now.
As well as deer, . . . I would also like to use it for coyote hunting next spring, but it needs to shoot better than that for Wiley.
Thanks for your help,
May God bless,
Dwight
The sales clerk also sold me some 240 grain Hornady saboted bullets, and 777 powder. I'm shooting 2 ea of the 50 gr pellets each shot.
The best I can get this thing to shoot at 100 yds (using a substantial rest) is cutting paper on an 8 inch Shoot N C target. I shoot for dead center and it lands somewhere in the paper.
I know this is a lot better than my old shotgun & slugs, . . . but I would like to get it down to at least a 4 or maybe a 3 in spread instead of the 8 I have now.
As well as deer, . . . I would also like to use it for coyote hunting next spring, but it needs to shoot better than that for Wiley.
Thanks for your help,
May God bless,
Dwight