Sst-ml
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One more question...those that use hot soapy water to clean them, do you dunk scope and all? I'd like to try that style of cleaning and I'm thinking about the bathtub....
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My buddy used them for the first time this year... Hit his buck just a little above the shoulder but caught the blade and never had a pass thru... No blood either... But it only went maybe 40 yards.... Rolled it over too see where it came out.... No hole too be seen.... Lots of havoc inside though lol
NO-NO. Just take the barreled action out of the stock, remove the breach plug, put the breach plug end into the hot soapy water, take a ram rod with tight fitting patch and run up and down the bore. The tight patch will act as a pump and pull water up and down on each push-pull through the bore. Change water and redo until clean. Dry and oil immediately to prevent rust. Done it for 40 years before going smokeless.
If you can't to that way get a plastic tube to fit the primer cap area and use that in the water can.
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I do the same thing except I use a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot soapy water and put the muzzle end in the bucket. I'll run a brush up and down from the breech end followed by patches to suck and push water in and out of the barrel. Gets it squeaky clean. I then run patches until dry and clean, last is a patch coated in RIG (rust inhibiting grease). I soak the breech plug in a shot glass of solvent while I'm cleaning the gun. I then use a toothbrush to scrub the breech plug and rinse in hot water. I usually set the breech plug on the wood stove or the glass cooktop on low for a bit to dry any water that may be in there. Last step is a coating of rig on the threads and back in the gun. I've thought about going smokeless but there's just something about that big plume of smoke and the smell that gets my man bits tingly.
Ohiosam
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I've killed a bunch of deer with Hornady XTPs and SSTs. They work great. Current load is 110 gr BH209, 250 gr. SST, with a Win 209 primer.
the Lackster
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I am new to muzzleloading but have pretty good groups with the sst 300 gr, 95 gr of blackhorn and cci primer. This is a 100 yard group with my cva wolf.
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I forgot the greasing of the plug threads. I use anti-cease thread compound on my breach plug as it's even more important with high pressure smokeless loads.
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I use birch wood Casey Rig +P which is made for stainless. I get it from amazon for like $6.50.
I've always wondered why they never went with anti seize on the breach plugs Frank.... Makes more sense when you think about it.... Add a little oil too it and thin it out if needed and it works great....
Lundy
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Smokeless creates higher pressures that equates to higher temperatures. Many grease compounds used and marketed for MZ breech plugs can't handle the higher temps of smokeless but work fine with the traditional propellants used in MZ,s High temp nickle anti seize for the last 8 years on smokeless and so far no stuck plugs and I only remove them once a year
Grease seems too work ok, but after working with anti seize on aircraft braking systems and you wanna talk about heat, stuff will make you a believer in it....
Using the oil was only when it was too dry too go on in its original state, add just enough too make it pliable.... But I can see if you added too much that it'd foul up the charge....
I shoot the SST's out of my Muzzy, and they shoot great! What's the difference in the SST-ML? Different sabot?
LOL Joe. Looks like there is a rod attached to the sabot that will go through the Pyrodex pellets. Not sure why that would be needed, but looks like that's the only difference.