Just picked up a SMI barreled NEF muzzleloader. Can't wait to shoot it. Any suggestions for a powder scale? The SMI load charts list charges to the whole grain. I'd prefer to measure to the .1 grain if possible. I'm wanting to go digital. Once I do get her out, I'll post some pics of the results.
This is my first smokeless. I have an inline and a side cap (both blackpowder) but don't enjoy the cleaning as much as the shooting. Savage produced (maybe still producing?) a smokeless ml and there are a couple of other manufacturers out there as well. SMI is actually located in indiana. They use 50 cal Douglas barrel blanks and can mate a barrel to different guns.
I don't know about pushing the standard 50 bmg bullets. I'd think it would be a bit tough to shove one down the barrel but I may be wrong. It seems like most people only shoot saboted rounds with smokeless. So that means no powerbelts also.
Own a Savage ML, have a Leopuld scope on it, with good rings and bases.
The gun will shot MOA from a rest with sabot loads out to 100- 150 yds. I am quite pleased with it, have a laminated thumbhole stock on it, and have shot several deer with it. All heart shots, and they literally dropped in their tracks.
And I didn't have that messy clean up to do with the rifle when I got home. Doesn't get any better than that.