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Whats yalls favorite muzzleloader?

x10 on CVA Optima. Very accurate and easy to use .
I go with the recommended 245gr aero tip and white hots (100gr) .
You can get a good deal on a package around $399 and it’s a lot less than the Accura- I don’t think you’d notice the Bergara barrel difference without hunting out west / open fields- stretch past 100yds.
If you have the money the CVA Paramount looks next level . It’s like the cashmere saddle of muzzleloaders.
 
I shoot an CVA Accura MR I love that gun. I shoot 265gr Lehigh Defense controlled fracturing bullet boosted by 100gr of buckhorn 209.
 
Homemade flintlock. .54 swamped Rice barrel, Chambers cast lock parts, cast yer own brass and carve yer own wood. Or get a used one off of Track of the Wolf. Be a man and use a real muzzleloader, not a modern slug gun that's just pretending.
 
Blacksmith said:
If you want old school, I ve shot competition for years w/ a pedersoli .50 A very good prize winner. .490 rd ball, .010 butter patch over 60 grns FFF I think Cabelas sells it in cap or flint, called a blue ridge rifle.
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My man.
 
Zoa said:
Homemade flintlock. .54 swamped Rice barrel, Chambers cast lock parts, cast yer own brass and carve yer own wood. Or get a used one off of Track of the Wolf. Be a man and use a real muzzleloader, not a modern slug gun that's just pretending.
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Lol i think ill just pretend. Homemade firearm sounds like a recipe for blowin my face black like elmer fudd. Maybe you should build me one. I use a compound too. Just a big lady boi i guess
 
I load my TC Impact with two 50grain pellets of IMR "Whitehots" behind a 240gr. Hornady XTP in .45 cal with a green sabot. I've used this combo for years with great success. You can buy the bullets in bulk at a much lower cost and a box of 100 lasts me years!!!
 
PEEJAY said:
Lol i think ill just pretend. Homemade firearm sounds like a recipe for blowin my face black like elmer fudd. Maybe you should build me one. I use a compound too. Just a big lady boi i guess
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Ah just use a reputable barrel maker and ya'll be fine. Plus, ya get to pretend to be Daniel Boone! Think of how jealous six year old you would be.
 
Cva optima v2 50 cal. Supper nice trigger. Switched to powerbelt aerolight bullets from regular powerbelts. 777 powder. Aerolights get a consistent passthrough but never lost a deer with regular powebelts.
 
PEEJAY said:
Ive hunted rifle and shotgun season before but early muzzleloader opens up friday here n i have never even shot one. I havent hunted firearms in 6 or 7 years at least. Would like to keep my budget under 500 if possible. Any suggestions??
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Had a Thomson Center 50 Cal for several years,,shot the grooved slugs,,never the round balls since that did not make sense for accuracy...And talk about accurate,,i could punish those coffee cans something terrible with iron sights at 100 yrds,,very accurate rifle.
 
CVA Accura V2. Making the switch to Blackhorn 209. 300 grain White Lightning bullets from Harvester. Actually need to resight it in soon since I got a new scope for it in the off season and I switched bullets and powder. But I've taken a few deer with it. Only issue I had was with some backblow getting on the firing pin and making it stick. A small o ring under the primer solved that. Planning on using it for a a state park reduction hunt I got drawn for.
 
Wolf said:
Had a Thomson Center 50 Cal for several years,,shot the grooved slugs,,never the round balls since that did not make sense for accuracy...And talk about accurate,,i could punish those coffee cans something terrible with iron sights at 100 yrds,,very accurate rifle.
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just dont shoot it prone,,,the barrell come up when fired,,stock collided with my cheek bone,,man that hurt.!!!Fire it standing or sitting.
 
Thompson Center Encore very accurate and you can swap barrels and make any gun you want I LOVE mine and so does everyone else they are always wanting to borrow it especially my father, he has it right now! Also have a TC Hawken and for an regular muzzle loader it is very accurate also!
 
I've got a .50 barrel for my Encore. I'm quite happy with it and would recommend it to anybody.
I'd advise you to check your local regs first though. Until a few years ago MN required iron sights only. And someone was telling me about a Western state that requires sidelocks during ML season; if they have an inline they can only hunt with it during rifle season. So I would say that any state-specific restrictions are relevant to your answer.
 
The year I got married TC had just come out with a new muzzleloader, I forget which model it was. A good friend of mine at the time managed a sport shop. I needed a muzzleloader so a couple months before Christmas I went into his shop to buy this new TC. My friend starts trying to talk me out of it, and basically refused to sell me a muzzleloader. It kind of made me mad, and as I was telling my dad about it the next day he starts talking down this TC, even though he shot one and I knew he loved it, and he starts telling me that CVA makes a pretty good gun. I had zero experience with CVA at the time but mostly because I was frustrated that no one would agree with me I start telling him (in front of my wife) that CVAs are junk and I am going to get this TC. He ends up convincing me to wait until after Christmas because "they might be on sale".

Christmas morning rolls around and we open our presents. My wife tells me there's one more and walks over to the gun cabinet. Inside is a brand new CVA optima pro. She had wanted to surprise me, knew I needed a muzzleloader and had got with my buddy at the sports shop several months before Xmas and picked out this gun, which is why everyone was trying to talk me out of buying a muzzleloader. Attached to this gun is this really heartfelt note about how much I meant to her. I read the note, look up and she says "if that's not the one you want you can take it back." I felt 2" tall.

So I can say without a doubt the best muzzleloader is, and always will be, a CVA optima pro.
 
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