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I finally went back to hunting with a muzzleloader after 30 years of shotgun and hand guns for deer. I had shot a few deer with traditional muzzleloaders years ago and picked up an inline last summer. Spent the fall trying to figure load and bullet that grouped the best, after trying a lot of cast bullets and sabots ended up settling on a 270gr Powerbelt and 100 grs of BH209 for this year. A couple in our group pushed this buck up to within 60 yards of me, walking on three legs. After recovering the deer I found one rear leg was broken at the knee and other wasn�t in good shape. Looked like it survived a hit from a car and it wasn�t going to make the winter. The Powerbelt did the job, it wandered 30 yards before going down in a pile. The remainder of the Powerbelt was recovered under the offside hide. Remaining slug weighed 115 grs and was .87 inch in diameter. Everything functioned great in the 6 degree weather except the camera, so took pics after butchering.

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Entrance wound

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Recovered slug

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Congrats

Can't complain about the bullet. Might have retained a bit more weight with 80-90 gr of powder, but the deer wouldn't be any deader.

that bullet did exactly what its supposed to do. nice buck.

Nice job!

Good job!

With a huge entrance who needs an exit, congrats.

At 6 degree's you used the right primer. Congratulations.

Doc

huge entrance holes like that bleed like a mother. No need for an exit LOL.

Congrats sir.

How do you like that Traditions? I had the LDR and liked it, but the Strikerfire I have now,.. man that's a rifle!

Thanks for the comments. I like the Traditions so far, no problems and good accuracy. It�s my first inline so not much to compare it to yet. BTW used Federal 209A Shotshell primers. I will be giving it another go late muzzleloader season Dec 23 thru Jan 10th.

Good for you. Congrats. Nice deer.