Muzzleloader Hunting

[Edge]

Let's hear what muzzleloader you're using, any improvements on it and game you've taken.

I'll start. After a couple deer seasons carrying an inline .50 I got a good deal on a .50 Thompson Renegade. These are sold as kit guns, traditional #11 cap and ball muskets, iron sights only.
Got pretty good with it using 70gr 777 and a 250gr Powerbelt hp slug out to 70yards.
Occasional misfires were occurring with each brand of cap despite cleanings so I replaced the #11 percussion cap with an enclosed ignition system firing shotgun primers. No more misfires.
Perhaps with new eye prescription, I can see out past 100yds with these sights.
Last cow season I came home with tag soup after missing the mark right at 100yds. More practice needed.

 

[Hac]

I'm a huge fan of Knight muzzleloader, I shoot a disc elite chambered in .45 for Javelina, I have a disc elite in .50 cal. and a disc mountaineer chambered in .52 caliber all made by Knight muzzleloader.

I shoot Blackhorn 209 with a Winchester 209 primer

My Muzzy Javelina last in 2019, knight disc elite with a athlon scope

 

[Hac]

My oldest son in 2015 unit 3B 80 yard shot with a TC omega


Youngest son in 2015 unit 3B 236 yard shot with a TC omega
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[Edge]

I'm still dinking with the sidelocks. Picked up a T C Hawkens .54 in great shape and unfired. It's a pretty piece.

However still has the same compromising twist as the Renegade, 1:48. Add to that there aren't a huge assortment of projos made for the .54 as there are the .50. I may have to either change barrels or buy a mold.
I'm drawn for 6b buck Nov.