Short barrel muzzleloader

[RobertLehman]

Is anyone shooting a 20" barrel smokeless muzzle loader? If so how much velocity do you think you gave up over 24" barrel? I'm currently getting the parts together to put one together. Will mostly be hunting from a blind and would like to run a suppressor in the future. Would like to run 300 gr bullets close to 2300 fps. Would that be doable with 20" barrel?

 

[Blackpowder72]

There is some talk about this on Hanks message board.

 

[RobertLehman]

Thanks, I will check it out.

 

[Rick Richard]

Or give him a call. His number can be found on "Hanks Precision Gun Parts"

 

[Rumup]

I was able to get 45 cal 250s up to 2550 fps from a 18" I would think you wouldn't have a problem achieving your goal

 

[Tracker12]

Is anyone shooting a 20" barrel smokeless muzzle loader? If so how much velocity do you think you gave up over 24" barrel? I'm currently getting the parts together to put one together. Will mostly be hunting from a blind and would like to run a suppressor in the future. Would like to run 300 gr bullets close to 2300 fps. Would that be doable with 20" barrel?

Thats a pretty tall order getting 2300 fps with a 300 grain bullet.

 

[CMP70306]

Is anyone shooting a 20" barrel smokeless muzzle loader? If so how much velocity do you think you gave up over 24" barrel? I'm currently getting the parts together to put one together. Will mostly be hunting from a blind and would like to run a suppressor in the future. Would like to run 300 gr bullets close to 2300 fps. Would that be doable with 20" barrel?

I'm getting 2340 fps with the 275gr NSR in a 20" Brux barrel and 60gr of H4198.