Hi I'm Ethan and I love muzzleloading and this is your muzzleloading news from the 2023 NRA show.

Episode Chapters

0:04 CCI Percussion Caps Update

4:00 Blackhorn 209 Woes

8:08 CVA advises you find powder and primers before getting a Paramount

10:27 Traditions Shedhorn hands on

12:36 Hornady ELD-X Muzzleloader going into production soon

14:49 Pedersoli, Lyman absent from show

15:50 Let me know your questions and I'll try to answer them

First up the availability of percussion caps. I was able to meet with a representative from CCI at the NRA show they did confirm that percussion caps are going back into production here sometime in June.

We were able to confirm something that many of us already knew really about Blackhorn 209, but it is produced in Canada and the manufacturing facility isn't really owned by Hodgdon based on what I was able to find out here. The powder line is manufactured and sold through Hodgdon but Hodgdon themselves don't have any control over the actual production facility, it's not like a Hodgdon facility with a Hodgdon sign out front.

It’s not confirmed by Hodgdon here but based on what I've kind of gathered, that production line is almost rented out or or accessible by Hodgdon for a run of powder but it's not under Hodgdon's control.

Second here is that Blackhorn 209 powder is a double based, double extruded powder according to Hodgdon. It's a complex powder to make it's also very chemically similar to a powder that's in high demand from the military and other military contracts. And while they weren't going into that information fully in depth here we were able to kind of confirm that the powder is in demand and powders near it chemically are in demand by Western militaries.

Connected to a little bit of the the percussion cap shortage and the Blackhorn 209 issues that we've seen we saw a statement released before the NRA show from CVA muzzleloaders recommending that if you are interested in picking up a CVA Paramount Muzzleloader, their premiere long range muzzleloaders they recommend that you find a supply and and purchase your supply of Blackhorn 209 and large rifle primers before you purchase your Paramount.

I was able to talk with Traditions at the NRA show this year about the availability of the shed horn and actually see one in person which was really exciting we've only kind of seen those side view photographs of the shed horn since its launch.

Last up I was able to talk with Hornady about the ELD-X muzzleloading bullet and its release time frame. Representatives from Hornady did say that they've got finally the final tip mold for these bullets to go into production. They say that the mold process has to be so perfect that it takes so long to get a quality mold made, but they've got the mold for the plastic tips that go into these bullets now and they're ready to go in production here in May and June and we should start seeing them on shelves pretty quickly after that.

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