Editor’s Note: Russell Lynch of South Carolina, owns M.A.X. (Muzzleloader Accuracy Xperts, LLC), which produces videos and customizes Muzzleloader rifles to determine the best primer, shot and load for each individual Muzzleloader rifle he’s asked to evaluate and to improve shooting accuracy. A former sniper in the U.S. Marine Corps and shooter in matches and trainer of personnel in shooting for the Armed Services, Lynch learned to shoot accurately from 300 yards out to 1,000 yards.
There are two-different sets of rules to attain maximum accuracy in your Muzzleloader. The first rule is cleaning for accuracy, and the second rule is loading for accuracy. Let’s talk about cleaning for accuracy. The most-popular powder among muzzleloader shooters is probably Triple Se7en, which leaves a huge crust ring in the barrel when the powder is ignited by the primer and pushes the bullet out of the barrel. You usually can feel this residue when you push a patch down the barrel and feel that patch scraping, rubbing or hanging. When you’re cleaning for accuracy, you need to realize that using any powder, you’ll have a crust ring in the breech area of that rifle. If you don’t clean the residue out of the barrel, loading the next shot is almost impossible with some bullets. So, always go through a very-regimented cleaning process before firing your next shot.

At our facilities at M.A.X., we put the Muzzleloader in the rifle rest or lay it horizontal to the ground. Next, we take…. 

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