Time to sell your 50 cal

[1moaoff]

so 50 big primers are still available that means value of the rifles should skyrocket... LMFAO

 

[Peterpan]

From my cold dead hands

 

[myronman3]

my 50 doesnt take primers...

 

[knuckleballz]

midway has 750 amax blems for 1.85

 

[candyx]

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my 50 doesnt take primers...

Does that kick like a mule ?

 

[hlee]

Does that kick like a mule ?

Muzzleloaders tend to be very soft shooters...

 

[MtnCreek]

I had a inline, I think it was a thunderhawk or something like that. Very short and light. Little bastard loaded with a maxiball and 100gr fffg was pretty rough. Nothing like shooting a hawken, even with a similar load.

 

[hlee]

For every action there is an opposite reaction. Light rifles recoil more with heavy bullets... When I was a kid, maybe 13-15, we leased some property for grazing rights and the land owner was kind of a gun nut. He had a hawken 50 cal and wanted to do some shooting with it. I had been hunting all of my life, but wasn't really "into guns." I had a marlin 30-30 for deer and a browning 20 ga pump shotgun for doves. Anyway, "50 cal" registered in my mind as "this thing is going to take my arm off." I was surprised with how mildly it recoiled. The load, if I recall correctly, was 70 grains of black powder behind a patched round ball. Today I have a thompson center omega in line muzzle loader and my go to load is 2 triple seven pellets (100 grains equivalent) behind a 285 grain Barnes Spitfire MZ bullet. I'm not a recoil junky, in fact I'm becoming more and more of a puss on the subject. But, I don't feel that the recoil from the omega is particularly obnoxious. I hesitate to equate a modern cartridge to it as I don't shoot it regularly- just pull it out a couple of times a year to try to bag a deer. Certainly it is no sporter weight 700 bdl chambered in 300 weatherby mag. God I hate THAT rifle.

 

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Muzzleloaders tend to be very soft shooters...

...."tend" to be...

.72 cal 650gr pill over 200gr of FFF

 

[Soulezoo]

For every action there is an opposite reaction. Light rifles recoil more with heavy bullets... When I was a kid, maybe 13-15, we leased some property for grazing rights and the land owner was kind of a gun nut. He had a hawken 50 cal and wanted to do some shooting with it. I had been hunting all of my life, but wasn't really "into guns." I had a marlin 30-30 for deer and a browning 20 ga pump shotgun for doves. Anyway, "50 cal" registered in my mind as "this thing is going to take my arm off." I was surprised with how mildly it recoiled. The load, if I recall correctly, was 70 grains of black powder behind a patched round ball. Today I have a thompson center omega in line muzzle loader and my go to load is 2 triple seven pellets (100 grains equivalent) behind a 285 grain Barnes Spitfire MZ bullet. I'm not a recoil junky, in fact I'm becoming more and more of a puss on the subject. But, I don't feel that the recoil from the omega is particularly obnoxious. I hesitate to equate a modern cartridge to it as I don't shoot it regularly- just pull it out a couple of times a year to try to bag a deer. Certainly it is no sporter weight 700 bdl chambered in 300 weatherby mag. God I hate THAT rifle.

I have THAT rifle. It hurts.

 

[myronman3]

Does that kick like a mule ?

it’s a pussycat. there is no need to stuff it full of powder. get it moving so you can hit what you are aiming at. .50 caliber hole does the killing....not the unnecessary burning of excess powder. i usually run 80 gr fff. it does all that needs doing.

show me something that wont kill, and i’ll show you something i dont want to fuck with.