WHAT SHOOTS BEST - Muzzleloader Challenge 

So moral of the story is if you save money on a gun you’re gonna end up spending it anyways in tacos down the rd so just buy a higher end gun to start with !!🤙🏿🤙🏿

thanks for the video guys. for the next one, maybe you could each shoot a three shot group out of each muzzleloader (for a total of 9 shots per gun) so that its more of a gun comparison than a shooter with his gun...

Nice job Brady, glad to see this after the free throw comp. All you guys did good, this it the content people (at least I do) like to see in the off season. Sharpen them skills men and keep up the great work.

Thank you Guys for for sharing this great information The competition was great Nothing better then friends getting together shooting or hunting God's Blessings to Guys on all your adventures

Loved this video! Especially as someone who's just getting into muzzleloaders. And mainly for Colorado. Excellent job breaking everything down in detail w/price

Arrowhead is legit! I am looking into the TC encore build they do

Nice rifles guys nice shooting shoot 50 years I love any kind of muzzle loaders guy still nice job

Great video great footage thanks for sharing!

Thanks guys. This was helpful. I own 2 of the 3 muzzleloaders you tested and like them both.

Love the Ckye pod Brady! So versatile

Awesome thanks for posting

The arrowhead cost more then my first car and divorce 😁

Bought a scope in your Vegas store yesterday, thanks for the tour! Great building!

That's good accuracy from the two rifles

liked and subscribed! I'm new to muzzleloaders, just picked up the CVA accura, and now am in awe of the bolt action!, I might have caught some sort of fantastic new sickness!! anyway great video, Nice Shooting!

Would have liked to have seen another attempt with the CVA. Had to be user error.

Get a t/c impact. Put a good peep sight on it and go hunting. Inside of 200 yds it's as accurate as any of these rifles. I paid $230 for the gun and about 40 for new sights. 250g sst sabots for wa. And 300g hammers for co. Bh209 powder and 209 primers. Unless you enjoy spending extra $ with minimal return, then sky is the limit. In my experience the sst muzzloader bullets hold together much better than the .308 or .284 sst that I have used in a modern rifle.

Nice intro!

While it is cool soo what the different price points buy, this was really a test of the shooters, not the guns. Need to have one guy doing all the shooting to test the actual gun. Shooter #2 was shooting off the forearm for his first 2 shots, then off the barrel for shot 3, not going to get the guns best groups that way. Shooter #3 had the best setup for my money. Thumbs up.

Josh, it's not the rifle that is holding you back, it's those pellets. Start developing a load using powder, any powder, pyrodex, 777, goex, swiss, bh209. They will all outperform any pellet! Bh209 is the best, but tough to find. Good luck, but with a little experimenting, you can compete with those overpriced rifles. I know this because my CVA Kodiak Magnum with 85gr of pyrodex with 240gr Hornady FTX bullet would have easily won this contest.

Brady - What made you chose the NECG N-106 vs. the Williams Peep site? Very curious, as I am setting up a Colorado legal ML as we speak. Thanks!

My CVA shoots 1” with borelocks and blackhorn 209. 👍👍. It’s not going to get better than that. It’s nothing special, just off the shelf.

So is it worth it going all in on one of the better ones for someone getting their first one? A customer of mine put a TC Encore in my hands the other day and it felt awesome. I like nice rifles, but I want to get into muzzleloaders and not sure where to start.. encore, triumph, accura, optima, maybe that new nitro fire that seems super easy and way safer...

Glad I stumbled across this. Planning on buying a bargain basement set up so I can hunt more muleys here in NV. Archery is too expensive and intensive and I don't like deer in velvet (like shooting an unripe banana) Muzzy>archery all day!!

Great vid. The .45 was at a clear advantage. It would be interesting if you tried Knight’s ultra-lite setup for elk hunting and Knight’s 10 mm Peregrine. Which I think could take the arrowhead. Great shooting!

Did you have any issues with the Powerbelts gas check hitting the MZ Rex 2 muzzle break on the CVA Paramount Pro Colorado. How long did it take to get your muzzle break. I ordered one several weeks ago and have not heard anything. I sent an email this past week and crickets.

I shoot an Accura and I love it, it shoots 1" groups consistently at 100 yards. 240 grain bullet, 100 grains. All stock.

Just curious why you’re all running the lee shaver inserts over the williams or lyman?

Two long range guns with bipods against basically a MR off a bag...you guys suckered him into dinner.

Knight ultra lite for the win

Just now realized through your odds that I'm probably going for a muzzleloader hunt next time I draw

Low Pressure 50 Caliber Smokeless Loads in a 209 Factory Muzzleloader, 2 DVD set | eBay These 2 DVDs contain a demonstration of using Low Pressure Smokeless Loads in a 50 caliber factory muzzleloader.

The bolt actions are not legal in Washington where they require open ignitions, right?

First muzzle video where I ever saw anyone with a ramrod or powder or bullet in there hand ..

I dont understand why pellets are so popular. Premeasuring powder and putting them in vials is easy and actually cheaper. You can fine tune you load and get better results. Are pellets really that much easier to load than dumping a small vial down the bore??? I dont think so

cva break opens suck, ive owned three , rem 700ml or knight is way more accurate, both mine shoot thor bullets in 1 and a half in groups at 100 yds . cva is a 5 inch gun at best.

To be fair you should have taken the cost and divided by the group size. If the guy with the most expensive gun doesn’t win it’s definitely the shooter.

Shooting for groups, should have just held where your hold was for the first shot lol

Cva for the money.

Longer the barrel the accuracy tunes in more.

Terrible rest on the second shooter haha

I just put a peep on my knight Mountaineer and it shoots much tighter groups now. I get 3 shots in the size of a 50 cent peace

What kuiu jacket is Chris Neville wearing in this video?

If you have a paper bill of any denomination, you always have a ruler, 6" long X 2 &9/16" (1/2"). I am curious why you did not use scopes, I haven't seen any hunters using open sights for hunting in any terrain. I did enjoy you testing competition.

Great video, you guys should have really tried a woodman arms patriot built in Fremont NH, small operation keeps them from blowing up but you can’t find a better built or more accurate muzzleloader.

You can do as good or better with almost any gun. I have 2 TC firehawks and 2 whites.... Nothing special......I use pyrodex and hard cast lfn bullets in harvester sabots. Have shot clean through elk end to end!!!! Better terminak performance than my 338 win mag. I wouldn't use anything else.

Ill just try my luck with a cheap ass one lol

I would like to see one shooter shoot each rifle for a true "rifle" comparison.

Lol.. I was the first person to setup the paramount pro colorado with this rear sight and muzzlebrake. I posted it on the official paramount Facebook group. Glad to see it caught on.

$500.00 FOR AN OPTIMA V2 YOU GOT RIPPED OFF BROTHER!!

$7, 200 please !

Wyoming doesn’t have a muzzleloader season.

I think it's notable Ryan and Brady's groups were the tightest using the Blackhorn 209 powder. I switched to BH several seasons ago after finding it to be vastly more consistent over any of the pelleted powders and even loose Triple Seven and Pryodex. After making the switch to BH, my groups closed considerably, mostly like seen by Josh and Brady's groups seen in the challenge. I'd be curious to see what Josh's groups looked like if he was shooting BH.

Not very accurate comparison when its different guys shooting each gun and they aren't all the same caliber

210 Magnum primers? Not a thing....215 are Large Rifle Magnum....210s are standard Large Rifle

Honest opinion of the video, don’t use the 2nd guy again unless he can take it serious, whoever edited the video the 2nd guy got the velocity wrong based on what was on the screen....... just keep Brady and Neville least they’re look like backcountry hunters.

AND YOU CAN'T SHOOT EITHER.

This test is a fraud. Cva with 50 grains and other with over 100 grain. Should be same powder and same bullet weight. Then there wouldnt be that much difference at 100 yards

I was thinking for myself , and maybe plinksters and for making it not overkill for small game but also able for large game was an muzzie somewhere in the neighborhood of .20-.30 caliber . I was leaning more towards. 25 calibers ( 25acp , 6.5 , and 25-06 ) or 7.62/30 cal but by looking at reloading supplies the .30 cal due to abundance of those rounds ; like 300 RUM , 30-30 , 30 carbine , 30 super etc etc . So an combustion chamber that can hold maybe 200g down to maybe 33g or smaller and for the igniter .22 blanks due to the .22 always seem to be in supply even during recessions vs , actually I can't even find the 209 primers , percusion caps , or 32 blanks . Although a rifle that can deliver 300 magnum power and still fire a small handgun bullet may be too broad , even though they definitely could make spacers to put in combustion chamber to keep powder bunched up for better chance of firing , but maybe something that has a power range between 7.62 handgun loads to 7.62x39 or 7.62x51-300 RUM . I think I would love the fact that I had a rifle that could deliver magnum power if I wanted it to but also be able to chamber a bullet small enough to take out small game without it being overkill . Did I also mention maybe an option for a 34" barrel for long range shooting if desired .