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The active ingredient in most all of the copper solvents out there now is ammonia, left to sit in carbon steel barrels it will leach out the carbon in the surface. Ive used it straight to de foul barrels after shooting Barnes bullets with a regular solvent behind it as it will remove all the oil from the bore so corrosion could be an issue. Ammonia by itself won't touch carbon fouling which is why most of the current popular solvents are a blend ( cr 10 is 10% ammonia etc.).

this has happened to me, most times you can pull a brush thru from muzzle to breach and get them out. if that doesn't work take it to a gunsmith ! Mark

Yep, that's pretty much it, some go 80-100yds with double lung shots. some of the trauma with caused by a high power rifle bullet is from the vacuum behind the bullet, they also tend to open up violently. Your combo is probably only pushing 1800fps, so about half of most high power cartridges and looses that speed a lot faster due to bullet profile and frontal diameter aka ballistic coefficient. Best option is to shoot for bone, break the shoulders...just my 2 cents

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Don't over think it, for what you are trying to accomplish the hornady 7mm 140's will work just fine. With either of those calibers shot placement is going to be more critical than bullet selection. just my 2 cents...

I see them once in a while on the Ruger forum...

After 35 years of muzzle loader hunting and shooting I can assure you that using loose powder is to your advantage, pyrodex or triple 7 & the hottest caps you can find (rws or cci magnums) . just my humble opinion . . . backed by years of fooling with smokepoles ! Mark

I'll take it if it's not already sold . . .

I'd fault the scope WAY before the rifle, however if it's really that bad & not the scope Ruger has an awesome guarantee they will make it right...Most all the Ruger rim fires I've had would shoot dime size groups @ 50 without to much trouble and around an inch @ 100, could also try some different ammo but I shoot the Remington T' bolts in some higher end 22's an it's ok. just my humble opinion...

collect interest on all that money for a month...think about it, even at a few % it's a fair chunk.

I looked on there earlier and only see steel shot, he is looking for lead ...not so easy to come by anymore.

I do reload 10ga & it's nearly impossible to duplicate factory ballistics especially with the bigger shot sizes. I think those shot sizes are a seasonal run and everyone is probably sold out. Federal still shows them on their web site as an available load & I may have a box of factory 2's or bb's that I'd part with, I shoot coyotes with 'em. 5's for turkeys. Mark

Got about an inch at my house in west Flag...

elderberry I think...

might help if we knew what you're looking for...

well it probably needs a new trigger & hammer...coulda had a bubba trigger job at some point...

before you take it to a gunsmith remove the grips and make sure the strain screw at the bottom front is tight...some will loosen this to get a better double action pull, it needs to be tight or it can cause this. Mark

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I use a 10 ga. now bb's or #2's buffered lead its good to 80 yards with a patternmaster choke...before the 10 I used a 12 ga. 3 inch mag. same shot sizes good to about 50 yards with a good full choke...that all said it's getting tuff to find big lead shot these days. There is the dead coyote load from hevi-shot that works well in a 12 but its spendy stuff. just my 2 cents...

Having had rifles in all three I'd vote for the fireball, the k hornet will get reasonably close to 3000 fps but brass life is short at those pressures...I still have a 22 hornet rifle and a chronograph so I'm not guessing here, to get that kind of velocity you are only going to get 2 or 3 loadings in the hornet brass and it is always a little hard to come by. Fire ball brass can be easily made from 223 brass and it will easily reach 3k ... Just my 2cents

I'll take the grips for $50 if you will mail them to me in Flagstaff...

By the time you get all the stuff to load 10 ga shells you will have spent enough $$$ to just buy quite a bunch of loaded ammo...just a reloader (pretty much each gauge has its own press & although you can buy dies it is quite the process to change a press to another gauge) is $200 ish (mec jr or mk v) then you have wads, shot, powder, primers, hulls & some other stuff. then there is figuring out how to get it done ...Ive loaded shotgun shells for more than 30 years from 410 to 10 gauge.... buckshot is a little different than regular shot and its really not possible to load the same performance as most of the factory stuff. All that being said I enjoy rolling my own shot shells, I got started when stuff was cheap (the good 'ol days) & it is possible to get very good results. I could go on for an hour and probably not cover it all. Good luck, Mark

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I'll take it for $100...pm me your payment info

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