Thread: Remmington Muzzle loader

Originally Posted by Bill999

Yea muzzle loader season stars earlier in some states
It's a loophole work around

That makes sense. It sounded like they were trying to reinvent the wheel by starting again and reverse engineering a modern rifle. If I was going down that track, and wanted to muzzle load with modern tech, I would use a falling block capable of holding the primer, or the case thingy they have. Or a break open type arrangement. Potentially even better would be a case that is about 1mm narrower than the projectile. So the 'chamber' that the case goes in is narrower than the bore. That way the projectile has a shoulder to push against making it sit in exactly the same place each time it is pushed down the barrel.

The biggest problem with a bolt (or any reloading action) is the fact that the action is this long bit of steel that pushes the chamber forward adding weight and making the rifle longer (for the same barrel length).