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Rutty

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I bought a CVA Accurra V2 muzzleloader 2 years ago. I am not a big gun guy nor do I know much about them. I have killed the 2 bucks with it and both deer I shot left very little for blood trailing. I am shooting 2 powder pellets or 100 grains of Triple seven powder with the Hornady SST (red) 250 grain bullet. Where I hunt it is important to get good blood trails due to very thick terrain. I am looking for a load a little more devastating to leave me a better blood trail but also want good accuracy out of my CVA accura V2. Anybody with this gun have any recommendations? Thanks
 
SSTs are terrible muzzy bullets for anything but punching paper. Same size entry as exit. Blackhorn 209 and Barnes TEZ
 
Agreed with msauer. SST's are notorious for not expanding. Go with any of the barnes and you'll be happy. I use the TMZ, the TEZ are almost the same bullet, just made to slide down a barrel slightly easier than the TMZ's. If you aren't looking for long range bullets, the original MZ expanders are devastating but aren't shaped to be terribly aerodynamic.
 
I just placed an on-line order for Barnes Expander MZ Spit-fire 245 grain bullets this morning. I've used them in my T/C Impact and hope to get away from using Hornady 250 gr XTPs in my Savage MLs. The XTPs worked ok and were cheap being able to buy them by the box of 100, ordering sabots separately from mmpsabots.com. So I'll pay a little more for the Barnes, not like I shoot much, only a couple times a year.
 
LYON said:
Agreed with msauer. SST's are notorious for not expanding. Go with any of the barnes and you'll be happy. I use the TMZ, the TEZ are almost the same bullet, just made to slide down a barrel slightly easier than the TMZ's. If you aren't looking for long range bullets, the original MZ expanders are devastating but aren't shaped to be terribly aerodynamic.
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I went through the same thing. This is the way to go.
 
JNRBRONC said:
I just placed an on-line order for Barnes Expander MZ Spit-fire 245 grain bullets this morning. I've used them in my T/C Impact and hope to get away from using Hornady 250 gr XTPs in my Savage MLs. The XTPs worked ok and were cheap being able to buy them by the box of 100, ordering sabots separately from mmpsabots.com. So I'll pay a little more for the Barnes, not like I shoot much, only a couple times a year.
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I made the switch from from hornady to barnes expanders this year in my savage ml11. One thing that surprised me was that I had better groupings using the Barnes sabots than the mmps. I still have plenty of messing around to do with it in the future to get it shooting the way I'd like with the expanders but for the time being I'd say I'm good to go out to 200yds. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do to a deer.
 
Obviously everyone has you pointed in the right direction. The sst shoot decent but don' expand at all. Switch to a Barnes bullet and you will have much better results.
With that gun (different powder) both the 250 and 290 Barnes TMZ shoot great
 
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Is it a necessity to switch powder or can i just shoot the 290 grain Barnes TMZ bullet with the 100 grams of Triple Seven powder pellets through my cva accura V2?
 
Rutty said:
Is it a necessity to switch powder or can i just shoot the 290 grain Barnes TMZ bullet with the 100 grams of Triple Seven powder pellets through my cva accura V2?
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Not necessary to switch, although I have yet to talk to a single person who regrets switching to Blackhorn. It burns super clean in comparison to triple 7. Easier to shoot and load, easier to clean once done. If you do switch, be sure to get the proper breech plug for your gun and use magnum primers.
 
Most stores are sold out of the TMZ Bullets..... will the TEZ bullets work? Also, why would I need a different breech plug that what the gun came with?
 
TEZ bullets are just a little easier loading in a tight bore gun. One may shoot a little better in any given gun than the other but the TEZ should work fine.

The breech plug & magnum primer requirements is a function of what it takes to get consistent ignition with Blackhorn powder. The Blackhorn container comes with a couple of pictures on the back depicting what is, and is not, an acceptable breech plug for their powder.
 
I just purchased the TEZ bullets and think I am going to stick with the Triple Seven powder and shoot 100 grains of powder. I shouldn't have to change breech plug or anything else. I am headed to get Magnum primers and then I should be good. Thanks for the advice everyone.
 
I just made the same switch. Went from SST’s to Barnes Expanders. I also switched to Blackhorn, but could have used my pellets. Had the same problem with zero blood trails. Hope to test this out soon.


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