My younger brother and my son-in-law have been on a tear for the muzzle loader elk hunt in Idaho. It's a five-day season in early December. Son-in-law has lost at least three elk 'cause his gun did not go off. Paul, my brother, has had similar difficulties ... they have been using fake black powder like 777 and Pyrodex, etc. I told them there was nothing like the real thing!

Paul grudgingly bought a can of Swiss BP and took it out to his shooting place. He got really tight strings with his .54 at 90 yards and 110 gr. He bumped it up to 120 gr. and got a 3" vertical string with less than 2'horizontal spread. he says, based on recoil, the loads are at least as strong as the 777 loads he was using before. PLUS they all went off. My son-in-law could use that, for sure.


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