Magnum Wheel Man
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I just bought a new full camo Knight KRB7, & am planning on my 1st muzzleloader hunting, either this year or next... I've been deer hunting on & off, with both rifle & handgun, for several years now...
as a metalic cartridge reloader that reloads just over 40 calibers, I have a quite large number of bullets on hand, so I'm planning on buying the sabbots only, & using existing hunting bullets...
I was actually suprised that these rifles that could get charged with "up to" 150 grains of powder would be using pistol bullets don't all but the best of these have the potential to become over driven in a modern muzzleloader ??? I was expecting to use my 45-70 bullets, but see they are are built for either 44 mag bullets, or 45 Colt bullets... would the plastic be too thin to make them for .458 bullets ???
just seems the newer "magnum grade" rifles could seriously over drive a good portion of the pistol bullets??? one of my favorite 45 Colt Contender loads uses the Hornady XTP designed for the 454 Casull... I assume that would be a better choice than the standard 45 Colt bullet
also, are many of you guys using Barnes or other lead free bullets ??? I'm in the food industry, & one of my buddys is a state inspector, & the state of Minnesota is throwing fits about the lead content in venision ( I think MN & a couple other states destroyed 1000's of pounds of donated to food shelf venision, because of lead contamination ) & he & I have been going round & round on this subject, I always suspected that they could have run that meat through a metal detector, & threw away only the actual contaminated meat containing lead pieces... however it sounds like the last testing they did, shows a lead in the meat content, a long ways away from the bloodshot portion of the deer, so it's likely not just due to poor trimming... so I guess I'm looking at trying a few lead free bullets for my muzzleloader for hunting... any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
as a metalic cartridge reloader that reloads just over 40 calibers, I have a quite large number of bullets on hand, so I'm planning on buying the sabbots only, & using existing hunting bullets...
I was actually suprised that these rifles that could get charged with "up to" 150 grains of powder would be using pistol bullets don't all but the best of these have the potential to become over driven in a modern muzzleloader ??? I was expecting to use my 45-70 bullets, but see they are are built for either 44 mag bullets, or 45 Colt bullets... would the plastic be too thin to make them for .458 bullets ???
just seems the newer "magnum grade" rifles could seriously over drive a good portion of the pistol bullets??? one of my favorite 45 Colt Contender loads uses the Hornady XTP designed for the 454 Casull... I assume that would be a better choice than the standard 45 Colt bullet
also, are many of you guys using Barnes or other lead free bullets ??? I'm in the food industry, & one of my buddys is a state inspector, & the state of Minnesota is throwing fits about the lead content in venision ( I think MN & a couple other states destroyed 1000's of pounds of donated to food shelf venision, because of lead contamination ) & he & I have been going round & round on this subject, I always suspected that they could have run that meat through a metal detector, & threw away only the actual contaminated meat containing lead pieces... however it sounds like the last testing they did, shows a lead in the meat content, a long ways away from the bloodshot portion of the deer, so it's likely not just due to poor trimming... so I guess I'm looking at trying a few lead free bullets for my muzzleloader for hunting... any suggestions would be greatly appreciated