These include the Thompson/Center Maxi-Ball and Hornady Great Plains Bullets. Three types of traditional muzzleloading projectiles (from left), a round ball, a conical bullet and a Minié ball.

For example, on Cabela’s website, 50 of Hornady’s excellent 0.452-inch, 300-grain XTP MAG bullets cost $18, which, when combined with the MMP Sabots, equates to approximately 56 cents per shot.

Nearing the age of 40, I came to the Nebraska sand hills to hunt deer during the state’s muzzleloader season — specifically to test Hornady’s new .45-caliber Bore Driver ELD-X bullets in conjunction ...

Muzzleloader bullets are a distinct genre in the hunting world, and modern designs allow hunters to obtain centerfire-quality accuracy. Muzzleloaders have two inherent limitations. The first ...

All modern muzzleloader bullets have a plastic skirt attached to the base, or they sit inside a plastic sleeve called a sabot. PowerBelt is the most popular skirted design and it is caliber correct.

What Is the Best Muzzleloader Bullet for Big-Game Animals? Much of Reed’s system now hinges, simply, on better bullets.

Bullet fragmentation has been well-described in many modern, high-velocity rifles, but not for black-powder cartridge rifles or muzzleloading firearms, said Clinton Epps, a wildlife ecologist at ...

Hanson's Billinghurst, by contrast, though shooting the same bullet, more closely resembles the nation's earliest muzzleloading rifles. Rather than chambering a cartridge like Newell does, Hanson ...

Federal’s B.O.R. Lock MZ system has a polymer cup on the base of a full-caliber bullet, and is available with either a 350-grain lead or 270-grain copper .50-caliber bullet up front.