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    ousoonerfan22 is offline 10-Pointer
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    Default pellets or loose powder?

    Which shoots the best out of your gun?

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    Pellets shoot better and more consistently out of my T/C Black Diamond X/R.

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    Pellets shot great out of most of my guns and gave more velocity than loose, but the cost difference is just not worth the extra benefits. I shot pellets for 5 years and switched back to loose a couple years ago.

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    I prefer the pellets for hunting. They work well in speed loaders and if you need to reload they are quicker than trying to get loose powder down a barrel. If you drop one you can pick it up. Drop loose powder and you have to start all over again.

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    I've shot loose powder ever since I've used a muzzle loader. With the pros and cons of hunting with pellets, I decided to stick with powder. I just pre-measure a couple charges before the hunt....you can load them just as quick as the pellets....so I dont really see the benefits of the pellets myself.....

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    All I have ever tried has been loose powder. Shoots fine out of my black diamond.

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    Loose powder you can customize your loads.

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    I use 777 pellets, used to use pyrodex pellets before than. I like them and they are quite accurate out of my Encore.
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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    I'm a 777 pellet shooter.

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    My TC Omega works great with 777pellets

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    ive shot both triple 7 loose and triple 7 pellets .the pellots are a lot easier to handle and is worth the extra money ... just makes loading a lot easier

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    I've found this year that my gun shoots 83 grains the most accurately. Try that with the pellets.

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

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    I've found this year that my gun shoots 83 grains the most accurately. Try that with the pellets.

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    Hmm, use a 50 grn. and a 30 grn. = 80 grains, that the best I can do LOL
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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    Loose.

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    Default Re: pellets or loose powder?

    I found out that loose powder shoots better than pellets in my .50cal T/C Thunderhawk.
    I just recently purchased Jim Shockeys Gold powder to give that a shot. It is suppposed to burn cleaner.

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