100 yd grouping with my CVA Wolf

Nice shooting Fratri, lots of good reports on those rifles, everyone who has one seems to really like it. Shows you don't have to put yourself in the poorhouse to get a great shooting rifle. A lot of the muzzleloading community believe that a fouling shot or a squib load is the way to go. The problem I see with it is that you are hunting with an uncleaned gun, not a great idea in rain and damp weather such as we get in Ontario during hunting season. Moisture and burnt powder are not going to do your barrel much good.

thats very good frati. Nice group!

That's good shooting, congrats! What scope are you using?

Trick is to fire a primer at home they night before you hunt. Primer will eliminate a lot of the oil in the barrel.

I just bought a traditions buckstalker. I cleaned it out before usage. The guy told me to put bore butter down the barrel. I did this. The first one was easy to go down. The third I had to really put some weight into it. Didn't put a forth. Is this normal? I didn't get an opportunity to sight it in. Any suggestions. Btw. Great group F. I hoping for the same once I get her figured out.

I don't have that much experience behind me but what I have done is just run a wet patch then dry patch through it after a couple shots... Now my wet patch is just me moistening my patch with a little spit, run the wet (spit) patch and then a dry patch through. I do this after 2-3 or 4 shots.... I know it does get a little tougher to push the bullet down after a couple of shots but when I notice it getting tougher I run the spit and dry patch through and we are good to go.

Not sure running a lube before you fire is a good idea, wouldn't that make the powder stick to the barrel? Maybe that's why it may be tougher for you to push the bullet down, accumulated powder is causing it to get stuck? I also crack open the breech after every few shots (from what I read keeps it from seizing up)

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Originally Posted by Goosesniper

I just bought a traditions buckstalker. I cleaned it out before usage. The guy told me to put bore butter down the barrel. I did this. The first one was easy to go down. The third I had to really put some weight into it. Didn't put a forth. Is this normal? I didn't get an opportunity to sight it in. Any suggestions. Btw. Great group F. I hoping for the same once I get her figured out.

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Originally Posted by G.S.

That's good shooting, congrats! What scope are you using?

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Its the scope that came with the gun package, I think its a cheaper simmons model... For what I paid the package brand new, it does a fantastic job...

I'll give that a try. Yeah, when I cleaned it you could see lots of residue powder in the barrel. What's bore butter used for? Got lots of spit. Thanks for the tip.

Bore butter is used to season the barrel. You do not need to use it every time you shoot, only when breaking in your muzzle loader or after a long storage period. Store with bore butter in the barrel, wipe out the excess before starting again. Rubbing alcohol is excellent for wiping between shots. I used it when I was shooting 777. It removed the crud ring without cleaning too much. Now I use BH209 and can shoot about 8-10 shots without any cleaning or effecting my grouping.

Thanks djb.