muleskinner
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Enoch, UT
After hunting last fall I decided to build a new muzzleloader. I have a Remington Ultimate Muzzleloader and a Thompson Pro hunter with a muzzleloader barrel for it, but neither gun is capable of long range accuracy. I have a friend with a nice little lathe that agreed to help me with the build.
I tried to build it as cheap and light as possible but still capable of great shooting.
It weighs 11 lbs
I used an old 243 Remington short action I had on hand,
Bartlein .45 20 twist barrel
Trigger tech diamond trigger
AG Composites carbon fiber stock
5 port muzzle brake (Muscle Brake)
Vortex Viper HS LR 4-16 scope
Vortex tactical 3 screw 30mm rings
30 MOA base
I decided to start swaging my own bullets as well, I make two different styles. One is a more traditional spire point bullet and the other is a high BC shaped bullet. I'm swaging them with half jackets for targets because the full jackets are pricy and not needed for paper punching. I have full jackets and bond the cores for hunting.
I've shot it with 100 gr of 4895 and the recoil is pretty harsh! It's pushing my home swaged 300 grain bullets at 3100 FPS.
We can't hunt with smokeless powder in Utah so I'll be using Blackhorn 209 for the hunts.
Here is a 100 yard group I shot last week with the spire point bullet and 98 gr of BH209 @ 2350 FPS .17 group
I'm going to stretch it out to 300-600 yards in the next few weeks and see what it will do.
I tried to build it as cheap and light as possible but still capable of great shooting.
It weighs 11 lbs
I used an old 243 Remington short action I had on hand,
Bartlein .45 20 twist barrel
Trigger tech diamond trigger
AG Composites carbon fiber stock
5 port muzzle brake (Muscle Brake)
Vortex Viper HS LR 4-16 scope
Vortex tactical 3 screw 30mm rings
30 MOA base
I decided to start swaging my own bullets as well, I make two different styles. One is a more traditional spire point bullet and the other is a high BC shaped bullet. I'm swaging them with half jackets for targets because the full jackets are pricy and not needed for paper punching. I have full jackets and bond the cores for hunting.
I've shot it with 100 gr of 4895 and the recoil is pretty harsh! It's pushing my home swaged 300 grain bullets at 3100 FPS.
We can't hunt with smokeless powder in Utah so I'll be using Blackhorn 209 for the hunts.
Here is a 100 yard group I shot last week with the spire point bullet and 98 gr of BH209 @ 2350 FPS .17 group
I'm going to stretch it out to 300-600 yards in the next few weeks and see what it will do.
