One of these days I’m gonna pay you to make my wife a rifle that’s identical to that 223 build you did with the McMillan Remington mountain rifle stock.
I’ve wanted my Daniel Defense ar-10 multicam but scared to send it in the mail but I could make a trip to your place I think from here in Floyd co…can you do a good multicam black.?
Very good accuracy. Muzzloader came long way since 2012 . Took big pa 8 point cva new frontier with 100gr powder charge not mag load in 245gr bullet. Here only use a in-line for early doe hunts or rifle season in Muzzloader and shotgun areas those place switching over to straight wall areas . Flintlock is in the winter after January .
And nobody I shoot with doesn't run a patch down after at least 3 to 4 shots, I could see changing the sabot used but not the bullet except maybe its grains. And I guess I'm a lucky one that My CVA Accurate shoots great on a clean bore the same as a fouled one, with a Bergarra Barrel. Also I never store a shot Muzzleloader after being shot as the powder is highly corrorseve, maybe a day or two but that's it.
What's the barrel length, how many grains of powder and which brand? What brand of bullet and weight and what brand of sabbot? And I never use any type of oil except Non Petroleum like Montana Extreme Bore Conditioner.
Check with the ramrod, had to be up 3" from the witness mark. You loaded the rifle, you had to realize it didn't go all the way down. I've made crazy mistakes as well....double check!
Oh no Hank, Im sure you are mostly glad that he's okay but you must be heart broken as well with all the hard work you put into that build. Glad everyone is safe.
my target shooting / plinking load is always about half or less of what would be max charge for whatever muzzleloader I'm shooting. Accidents happen and regardless of how much we concentrate, we can become distracted. I'd rather be safe than lose a few fingers or an eye. Of course, even lighter charges won't prevent the potential for tragedy when powder / bullet / powder / bullet is loaded. That's a lot of pressure, especially when the second charge ignites. I only use black powder or substitute in muzzleloaders. Mostly I shoot flintlocks which means blackpowder for best reliable ignition.
@@jeffhankins6616 An "explosion" from black powder would be exceedingly rare with any modern (in the last 50+ years) muzzleloader. Also, if you read my post, I said my day to day load is about half what would be considered maximum which gives room for a double charge. The person in this video was loading smokeless powder which can build up far more pressure than any amount of blackpowder. Typical failures would be nipple blowing out, touch hole on flintlocks blowing out, "walnut" in barrel if ball short started, etc. Catastrophic explosions like in this video would be rare if they happen at all when using real black powder. If you can find one that blew like this when using real black powder I'd like to see it.
This almost happened to one of my friends. He double loaded his rifle. We checked his witness mark and he did in fact put a 2nd load in it. We tried to clear it. Just didn’t have the tools we needed. So he took to local gunsmith got it cleaned and cleared. All good and ready for the coming season. Jeff you can’t preach this enough. Safety first Safety first. Glad I tuned tonight, be safe ,keep your videos coming.
Had a buddy blow up a Thompson center omega I sold him. He’s an avid reloader and was shooting loose powder and mixed up his powder bottles and loaded 100gr of rifle powder instead of his muzzleloader powder he was using. He had pieces everywhere luckily he only had a few cuts he apologized to us friends that were there for possibly hurting us because he was in a hurry and didn’t double check his powder we told him accidents happen everyone is fine he’s now very very careful but glad to here your guys is fine along with all other shooters
Did I understand you correctly, you did not hold him responsible for the damaging destruction of your rifle, scope & stock? That had to be around $6000.00
Hey Jeff, thanks for posting this video! It may save a life down the road. Everyone that was present is very lucky not to have been harmed. I am guilty of double loading my gun and caught it by the witness mark. I was talking to my two smokeless buddies and did not have my undivided attention on what I was doing. Again, thanks for posting this it sure is a sobering sight.
Absolutely Jeff i would keep it n tk god he's ok good lord was with him n tky for sharing this people need to c n not being distracted is the way to go
i learded this by forgettin to powder chrg m.l. n had to pull bullets ,i used airpressure once ,n another time i sprinkled powdr into breach by pullin cap plug,got enough to shoot bullet out,measure w/ramrod n save all extra work
if ever in dought if u charged a ml;dump barrel to ck,its better to loose 50grns then to loose a rifle n worse bodyparts or life,my rules on my range w/muzzelloaders esp,even blk powder,better to be safe then injured
“Keep your head out of your ass!” Drill Sgt . Mantra, Echo co, 3rd battalion, 1st brigade, Fort Polk, La. 1967. Good advice, I don’t always remember, but I try. These mz rifles are a discipline apart, as I know, having ruined one with the bullet sliding for word of the charge at my private range, bulging the bbl, hell of a detonation, but walking away with a “Weatherby Eyebrow “. Like the man stresses, complete attention is paramount with this method of shooting!! HM 1, ret
God was with you and all your participants of the class today. I saved the video so I can show all my friends. I was at a long range shot with high power rifles and the guy next to me left his bore sighter in his rifle and shot it got peppered pretty hard with pieces of barrel. Thanks for sharing this
Jeff, you have managed to scare the living hell out of me. I will stick to black powder and substitutes only, and hope like crazy Blackhorn, or something like it will return to within the means of us average citizens. Best.
