Short barrel muzzleloaders and accuracy.

[Rebel jim]

I have a CVA FRONTIER .50, and my groups touch at point of aim everytime from 25 to 100 yards and 80 grains of 2f pyrodex.

 

[Uncle Miltie]

Heavy bench guns hardly practical . Ime curious to learn Research Press' s take on this .
Regards Rudyard

They were competition guns used to win matches, and the high watermark of accuracy with muzzleloaders.

 

[kyron4]

I have a CVA FRONTIER .50, and my groups touch at point of aim everytime from 25 to 100 yards and 80 grains of 2f pyrodex.

24" or 28" barrel ?

 

[SOLANCO]

As a hunter, the long barrels are OK for sitting in a tree stand. They are a liability when still hunting in thick stuff (where I hunt). For hunting through heavy brush, the carbines rule. Less barrel to get hung up in grapevines, rose bushes, berry bushes and the other junk. My favourites are a .50 Greyhawk, a .54 Lyman Deerstalker, and a .50 Cabela carbine (all 24" or less). For the kind of ranges seen in heavy brush, they're more than accurate enough. Actually they do well to at least 100 yds, which is my ML limit.

The forests must've been a different place back in the day of the long hunter. Don't know how they got through the woods with their 40+" longrifles.

A mature forest has less understory. If you think of sunlight as food, the mature forest "eats" most of it and what is underneath gets very little.

I suspect the long hunter hunted as I do. On the edges of forests and in clearings. I hunt small game. Birds in particular. Deep woods are not productive for me.

 

[Rebel jim]

24" or 28" barrel ?

24"