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Big Game Hunting => Muzzleloader Hunting => Topic started by: HoofsandWings on May 07, 2009, 10:44:09 AM

Title: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: HoofsandWings on May 07, 2009, 10:44:09 AM: From a comment I just read, I thought to ask how do you unload your muzzleloader?
Do you have to disassemble? Or use some tool to remove the sabot? Or what? How long does it take?

Thanks
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: robodad on May 07, 2009, 10:45:22 AM: Unscrew the breech plug and push it out with the ram rod, or put a cap on the nipple and fire away !!

I perfer to fire it out cause I have to clean it anyhow and it gives me just that much more practice !!
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: HawkenBob on May 07, 2009, 10:47:52 AM: On my hawken either fire it or use the screw tip, screwed onto the ram rod to pull the sabot. Once the lead is out use the tip to remove the plastic sabot also.
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: buck470 on May 07, 2009, 10:48:30 AM: Cap it, let'er rip.

My neighbors allways loved me!
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: whacker1 on May 07, 2009, 10:48:42 AM: Robodad is right

But to add - if loaded incorrectly and you are shooting traditional - no powder to fire or double loaded. You need a bullett retriever or a gun smith. You can pull the breach plug if you disassemble the barrell from the action and stock, but mine required a gunsmith to do this. I did not have the tools to get it done.
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: robodad on May 07, 2009, 10:51:04 AM: I also might add they make a CO2 unloader as well, I have never used one but thats another option to the others !!
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: Cascade_Sherpa on May 07, 2009, 11:58:16 AM: Quote from: robodad on May 07, 2009, 10:51:04 AM
I also might add they make a CO2 unloader as well, I have never used one but thats another option to the others !!

Second on this post. We hunt in an area that has a cluster of camps in the valley. The CO2 unloader is great cause its quiet, you don't waste a cap, you can retrieve the slug, and the powder is the only thing that goes to waste.
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: rasbo on May 07, 2009, 12:28:21 PM: shoot it out love to shoot
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: jdb on May 07, 2009, 12:44:31 PM: Quote from: rasbo on May 07, 2009, 12:28:21 PM
shoot it out love to shoot
:yeah:
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: bearpaw on May 07, 2009, 12:51:05 PM: just sucks when you forget the powder......LOL
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: whacker1 on May 07, 2009, 01:08:04 PM: Quote
just sucks when you forget the powder......LOL

All i hear is the cap - powder must be wet - weird...... How come there is a bunch of powder on the ground? :chuckle:
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: robodad on May 07, 2009, 01:36:22 PM: Quote from: bearpaw on May 07, 2009, 12:51:05 PM
just sucks when you forget the powder......LOL

In that case unscrew the breech plug and push the bullet out the other way, in case of a hammer lock, take out the nipple and pack a few grains of powder in the hole and put the nipple back in there and cap it and fire, Blows the bullet out and you could likely find it with no damage as it will be exiting quite slowly !!!
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: bowhunterforever on May 07, 2009, 02:07:17 PM: Quote from: rasbo on May 07, 2009, 12:28:21 PM
shoot it out love to shoot
:yeah: Me too
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: Dansk on May 08, 2009, 06:41:28 PM: x 2 on the CO2 discharger. Great for the range too. Taking apart the breach is a messy PITA even on simple rifles like my TC. With the cost of sabot projectiles, it's nice to be able to reuse them. I use the CO2 to discharge in a coffe can filled with towels to save the bullet.
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: robb92 on May 08, 2009, 08:01:55 PM: Just put in a 209 and fire away.
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: Pathfinder101 on May 08, 2009, 10:00:48 PM: I like to use the bullet removal lever. It is housed inside the triggerguard on my model... :chuckle:
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: Moose Eyes on May 09, 2009, 09:03:46 PM: Quote from: robb92 on May 08, 2009, 08:01:55 PM
Just put in a 209 and fire away.

:chuckle:
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: BENCHLEG on May 11, 2009, 08:01:26 PM: hunt where you can kill something . then you will always come home with a unloaded muzzlestuffer. :chuckle: :bash:
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: sisu on May 11, 2009, 08:17:09 PM: Quote from: buck470 on May 07, 2009, 10:48:30 AM
Cap it, let'er rip.

My neighbors always loved me!
I have a neighbor that worries about curb appeal...I keep skulls attached to the fence in the back, the trees have chromed balls from ball valves attached to various limbs, we don't have a BIG lawn like the rest, but instead have lots of rocks, shrubs and trees that are dripped, etc. I wish I could fire form some brass like I did in the Alaskan subdivision that would be good curb appeal.
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: Pat/Rick on May 11, 2009, 09:58:54 PM: Bullet puller screwed to the end of a ramrod in the correct caliber. LIBERTY.
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: Da stump on May 11, 2009, 10:02:07 PM: The prefered method of getting the bullet out is firing a a big 7 point bull elk. :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: C-Money on May 12, 2009, 06:54:39 AM: Shoot it out!
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: ratherhunt on May 12, 2009, 10:45:04 PM: Shoot it, I love the big cloud of smoke
Title: Re: How do you unload a muzzleloader?
Post by: HoofsandWings on May 15, 2009, 11:17:32 AM: So far, I have found that muzzleloaders are hard to load and hard to unload. They do disasemble fairly quickly.
In order to remove the breach plug, I have found that I have to take the trigger housing off.
So I can see why so many of you said to pull the trigger.