Colorado Muzz Bullet Restriction

SAM · Apr 14, 2006

Does anybody Know the reason behind the bullet length vs diameter retriction?
I shoot several White muzzleloaders and these guns like their long bullets.
Also read a post on another site that Colo dropped this restriction,but it still in the rags.

Thanks.

_droptine_ · Apr 14, 2006

It has not been dropped. I shoot a .504 white and use No Excuses 460 grains.

SAM · Apr 15, 2006

I usually shoot my .451s with my own 475 grn bullets.
But why the restriction on bullet length.I know why on the sabots.
If I draw this year I wiil have to take my .504 & pickup some NE 460 bullets then.

txhunter58 · Apr 15, 2006

LAST EDITED ON Apr-15-06 AT 08:50PM (MST)[p]The 460 grain NE bullets are legal in 50 caliber. That may be what you are saying, but I am not sure what a .504 is. I own a 50 caliber and a 54 caliber. Beyond that, I don't know the exact measurements.

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)

_droptine_ · Apr 15, 2006

LAST EDITED ON Apr-15-06 AT 09:18PM (MST)[p]Txhunter58,

The bore diameters of White muzzleloaders are .504 of an inch. That is what we were refering to. It is essentially a 50 caliber. One of the reasons that the No Excuses shoot so well from them is that they are speced to have a bullet diameter of .503. That is why I refered to my White as a .504.

SAM,
You didn't say what animals you will be hunting, but just in case you didn't know. The minimum caliber for elk in Colorado is 50 caliber.