Still fairly new to the muzzy's. My great plains hunter 54 caliber has been fun but I havent shot it much yet. I bought a box of 20 rounds of the 425 grain great plains bullets. They went in and out of the barrel with no issues. I bought a 450 grain 54 cal lyman mold and casted some bullets. I have only shot about a dozen and no issues until I was out coyote hunting last week and wanted to try and call a coyote in and use the muzzy. I was in the process of loading the gun when I get the bullet about 3 inches down the barrel with a lot of force and it decided it likes that spot.
Ram rod wont push it any farther, no way to pull it out at the time and there I sit. I got home and got a screw into the bullet and pulled it. It measured 0.545 at the widest spot
I checked one of the store bought bullets and they measure about the same on the forward band, at the least the one I checked did.
I can see I need to size these bullets so I dont get this issue again. I am pretty sure the stuck bullet was a bit larger than 0.545 before I tried to stuff it down the barrel. I guess I slugged my muzzleloader to a 0.545 at the outside of the bullets widest spot, what size sizer would you buy to make sure I dont get a bit bigger bullet stuck again??
I dont or havent been wrapping the bullet in anything, I have been dumping powder down the hole and then pushing the bullet to the top of the powder. Open to suggestions, should I be sizing the bullet down and wrapping them in something, or just get do what I have been doing, but get the right sized bullet to start with before I start poking down the barrel?