Nice gun and great video, looks like it packs a wallop. I have a knight rifle and shoort 100 to 150 gr of Triple 7 and a Kaido 240 hard cast bullet in a sabot, that combo is deadly accurate and packs a tremendous punch. Keep the videos coming, good luck on your next hunt.
You are right on about matching bullets to the gun and game. I would not hesitate to take this gun to Africa for plains game, but not for buffalo and such. Even if solid copper the bullet profile is shorter than I would like for drive through penetration which made some of the smaller calibers work. The same bullet weight in a saboted .40-caliber solid copper bullet might work better. Certainly the power is there if you can stand to shoot it.
This appears to be a much higher quality muzzleloader compared to the original 700ML which was substandard & why I sold it after just a few years of owning. Anyways very nice review & great looking rifle.
Hovey, It looks like you added a Williams receiver sight which, in most cases, makes necessary the use of a higher front sight. Otherwise you can crank that receiver sight all the way down & still be shooting high. I can see why these guns are no longer made.
One safety error that I see that I made in my haste to get the gun ready to hunt was that twice I had powder much too close to the gun's muzzle. I later moved the powder well behind the muzzle, which I should have done in the first place.
This gun would not be legal during muzleloading season in the Northwest States, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, that require exposed ignition, although I would think that they would be allowable during the regular gun seasons for any big game. One would need to check for Elk to make sure the caliber requirements were met. These states' regs are picky and often change. It always pays to check. I will not hunt Idaho, or most western states, unless I go with a local who knows the regs and the ground.
Unfortunately, I am informed (tho I need to confirm this) these rifles are not legal in Oregon for BP hunting season. Oregon requires an external ignition system to the charge. No primers allowed.
Yes they do, and according to the folks at Remington, this is normal, although a bit uncomfortable for us who use this system.. I have tried other cases and primers but with the same result.
Wonder Wads do fine with black powder and substitutes in Hawken-style rifles if the shot is fired reasonably soon after loading. After a few days the lubricant will start to spoil the powder which gets progressively worse the longer the load is in the gun. On a few-days hunt I don't have any noticeable problems, but you do need to reload periodically throughout the deer season to keep the loads stout.
thanks hovey...................I don't leave it loaded for more than a couple of days.............so no issues so far. keep up the great work........im a huge fan. we don't get a very long black powder season here in Canada............unless u want to shoot muzzle loaders during regular gun season.
I have one of these in 50 cal its a excellent muzzleloader and very accurate out to 200 yards
Nice gun and great video, looks like it packs a wallop. I have a knight rifle and shoort 100 to 150 gr of Triple 7 and a Kaido 240 hard cast bullet in a sabot, that combo is deadly accurate and packs a tremendous punch. Keep the videos coming, good luck on your next hunt.
Great video ...
You are right on about matching bullets to the gun and game. I would not hesitate to take this gun to Africa for plains game, but not for buffalo and such. Even if solid copper the bullet profile is shorter than I would like for drive through penetration which made some of the smaller calibers work. The same bullet weight in a saboted .40-caliber solid copper bullet might work better. Certainly the power is there if you can stand to shoot it.
That's got to be brutal recoil the 150 grain loads kick bad enough
This appears to be a much higher quality muzzleloader compared to the original 700ML which was substandard & why I sold it after just a few years of owning.
Anyways very nice review & great looking rifle.
That older Remington is called the Genesis if I'm not mistaken, later revised by Traditions and released as the Yukon... to the best of my knowledge.
That is correct.
Hovey, It looks like you added a Williams receiver sight which, in most cases, makes necessary the use of a higher front sight. Otherwise you can crank that receiver sight all the way down & still be shooting high. I can see why these guns are no longer made.
One safety error that I see that I made in my haste to get the gun ready to hunt was that twice I had powder much too close to the gun's muzzle. I later moved the powder well behind the muzzle, which I should have done in the first place.
This gun would not be legal during muzleloading season in the Northwest States, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, that require exposed ignition, although I would think that they would be allowable during the regular gun seasons for any big game. One would need to check for Elk to make sure the caliber requirements were met. These states' regs are picky and often change. It always pays to check. I will not hunt Idaho, or most western states, unless I go with a local who knows the regs and the ground.
Unfortunately, I am informed (tho I need to confirm this) these rifles are not legal in Oregon for BP hunting season. Oregon requires an external ignition system to the charge. No primers allowed.
Hey, hovey do you know if this gun is legal in Utah I'm thinking about buying one
Hovey .does your primers back out of the case when you shoot it
Let me know please thank you
Yes they do, and according to the folks at Remington, this is normal, although a bit uncomfortable for us who use this system.. I have tried other cases and primers but with the same result.
do you use wonder wads hovey................I find my hawkens barely fouls at all with them
Wonder Wads do fine with black powder and substitutes in Hawken-style rifles if the shot is fired reasonably soon after loading. After a few days the lubricant will start to spoil the powder which gets progressively worse the longer the load is in the gun. On a few-days hunt I don't have any noticeable problems, but you do need to reload periodically throughout the deer season to keep the loads stout.
thanks hovey...................I don't leave it loaded for more than a couple of days.............so no issues so far.
keep up the great work........im a huge fan. we don't get a very long black powder season here in Canada............unless u want to shoot muzzle loaders during regular gun season.
what happened to the audio???? Hovey, do you even watch your videos to see what you did???
His audio is working here for me.