100 yd grouping with my CVA Wolf

[fratri]

Took advantage of this beautiful afternoon and went to shoot my muzzleloader…. I really enjoy shooting this gun (CVA Wolf)… It has a really nice trigger and shoots so smooth.... I can’t believe how well it shoots for a gun with a scope package for under $300……

The first shot is off a bit (possible from an oily barrel-should have ran a patch through it after pulling it out of the safe) but you got to like shots 2, 3, 4 and 5…. Less than 1” group with 2 pellets of the triple 7...



Hoping to get a chance to use it during the muzzleloader season...

PS... no time for the 3 shot challenge today....

[MikePal]

Contrary to what some guys desire, a muzzle loader is a 'Hunting' rifle...not a sniper rifle.

I'm always impressed that you can get such a great groupings at 100 yrds from these 'Basic' cheap Muzzle Loaders. Your results are a great example that you don't have to spend a lot to get an accurate rifle for hunting.

The 1st shot is called a fouling shot...never take a clean barrel out to hunt, you only get one shot so the 1st ones counts

[GoldenLakePete]

Very nice! Was that offhand or from a rest?

[fratri]

Very nice! Was that offhand or from a rest?

No Pete from a rest....

[Muskyhunter]

I have taken 2 moose and a number of deer with those Hornady 300 grain SST bullets and they work great. One of the shots was with my smokeless ML at 160 yards. A complete pass threw of the chest. He ran a 50 yard circle and dropped. Nice shooting.

[huntaway]

I always shoot on a clean, dry barrel. When I sight in I clean between shots. I want to know where my first shot is going to go.

Good shooting!

HA

[twostroke]

I have the same gun in black....run the same sabots ....only difference is I use the white hots powder I find it cleans up nice and can shoot a few shots before running a patch without changing much POI....greta gun for the price I feel as well....I would like to put a better scope on tho I am running a bushnell sportsman 3x7 right now.

[Angus]

I use 2 whitehots and with partitions or Barnes can do close to moa with my wolf.

[MikePal]

I always shoot on a clean, dry barrel. When I sight in I clean between shots. I want to know where my first shot is going to go.

That's the way I think too.....my mentor insisted that because his fouling shot was off, and that he liked the grouping he got once the barrel was warm and dirty he left his gun dirty after the day before the hunt. I argued that when we went hunting the barrel would be cold, so wouldn't it be better to establish a 'zero' baseline under 1st shot conditions...ie clean and cold.

He'd have nothing to do was such heresy

I swab between shots and really don't notice a 'fouling' shot. My 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 8th all pretty much go where they are suppose to go too. An inch or two at a 100 yds is not a big deal when your shooting .50 cal.

[oaknut]

That's the way I think too.....my mentor insisted that because his fouling shot was off, and that he liked the grouping he got once the barrel was warm and dirty he left his gun dirty after the day before the hunt. I argued that when we went hunting the barrel would be cold, so wouldn't it be better to establish a 'zero' baseline under 1st shot conditions...ie clean and cold.

He'd have nothing to do was such heresy

I swab between shots and really don't notice a 'fouling' shot. My 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 8th all pretty much go where they are suppose to go too. An inch or two at a 100 yds is not a big deal when your shooting .50 cal.

After the first shot ot of my traditions each bullet lands a bit high and a bit left of the previous. At first I thought it was the scope but after a quick swab I near perfectly replicated the fist four shots.

I too always establish my zero on a cold clean barrel as I am a big fan of the "one and done"