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Remington 700 Ultimate Muzzleloader Review, Part Three

Fifty charges of 100 grains of Blackhorn 209, by weight not book, were advisedly dispensed by RCBS Chargemaster 1500, and so bagged and tagged. Ambience atmospheric condition were about fourscore degrees F., actually slightly on the cool side for late July in northern Illinois.

A target was set up at 25 yards to get the coarse scope adjustments out of the way. The commencement shot, using a Parker 300 grain Ballistic Extreme pushed by 100 grains (weight) of Blackhorn 209 was on the paper, the subsequent shot was in the balderdash.

Fresh targets were set up at 100 yards, laser-verified. The kickoff three shots produced an MOA 100 chiliad three shot group, quite satisfying. Burning this much pulverization means barrel heating and resultant sabot weakening is a serious outcome, a potential trouble that would non exist a consideration in one-shot hunting weather or at typical hunting temperatures. The barrel of the Remington 700 Ultimate gets hot quickly, so barrel cooling is mandatory for best accuracy. Aluminum cooling rods do piece of work and work well, but I didn't bother with 1 in this inaugural outing. I tried as many combinations as daylight would allow, all using 100 grains by weight of Blackhorn 209. Still, as you can imagine, I've barely scratched the surface of the countless combinations possible.

This load, as tested, with the Barnes Spitfire T-EZ 250 Apartment Base of operations in the light-green Remington / Barnes sabot, has a Maximum Point Bare Range of 211 yards, assuming a six inch kill zone.

The Remington 250 grain Premier Accu-Tips, actually a Barnes T-EZ 250 Expander in a new, stiffer durometer proprietary MMP sabot designed for this burglarize and higher intensity propellant charges, also performed superbly well, shooting sub-MOA at 100 yards. A representative 100 chiliad group is shown higher up and this was fired with an excessively hot barrel to kick. Cage velocity (100 grains weight BH209) is in the area of 2350 fps.

All in all, for a first outing, the Remington 700 Ultimate did superbly well, with two extremely consequent sub-MOA loads that I'd happily hunt with tomorrow, with a bare minimum of load work up and hassle. The 100 grain by weight / 143 grains by volume Blackhorn 209 charge was just an educated guess. The recoil, off of purse and cradle with 300 grain projectiles is stout but quite manageable, with the felt recoil of 250 grain saboted projectiles remarkably softer-shooting. Neither level of felt recoil is of any importance with fur in the cross-hairs.

Decision

The tested Remington 700 Ultimate Muzzleloader is a superb shooter out of the box, with no suspicion of hang-fires or anything less than instant ignition with Blackhorn 209. The breeching system works like a amuse and is hands the handiest, easiest to use, cleanest breeching array of any affordable muzzleloader on the market today.

In times by, the Knight Rifles accuracy guarantee has been 2-one/2 inches at 100 yards, Savage Artillery promised 1-1/two inch iii shot 100 yard accuracy and T/C has never promised whatever standard of accuracy at all. This Remington Ultimate is a 1 inch gun right out of the box, with extremely high-performance velocities of 2350 fps +. What is non to like?

With an excellent, zero accept-up, zero-creep trigger, dashing good looks, and perfect reliability, the new Remington 700 Ultimate muzzleloader is the virtually highly-seasoned standard product long-range muzzleloader on the market today. For shorter range applications or when doing a lot of walking and climbing, its 8-3/iv lb. unscoped weight might direct you to the essentially lighter LHR Redemption (7-one/4 lbs. in walnut with a 24 inch barrel). Nevertheless, every bit the Remington 700 Ultimate is made for high-intensity loads, its weight is no dissimilar from several prior muzzleloaders. For example, the now-discontinued Brutal 10ML-II with a laminated stock is a nine lb. pound gun.

When firing "high-horsepower" long-range loads, the current more substantial weight of the Remington Ultimate is highly desirable. I'chiliad thrilled with this muzzleloader and if you are interested in a long range muzzleloader for hunting from a stand or box bullheaded, you will be too.

This Remington eliminates regular breech plug removal altogether, the filthiness of 209 primers, the drilling out of carbon from breech plugs, the poor ignition of extremely long interrupted thread breech plugs, and the many various and sundry hassles of stuck primers, fouled or crispy scopes, external blowback, and the only "maintenance" needed subsequently shooting with Blackhorn 209 is a couple of Hoppe's No. ix patches up and downwardly the barrel. The Remington Ultimate fires like a "real rifle," without the turtle-slow locktime of hinge-pivot hammer guns (the break activeness genre).

The direct predecessor to this gun, the rip-off priced "Ultimate Firearms, Inc." models offset at $2500 for the base model and hitting a a nosebleed $4450 start price for the "Carbon Stealth" model. For those who know a bully production when they see it, the $1295 retail ($1150 estimate street price) of this Remington makes it not just an outstanding muzzleloader, but a screaming deal of value besides. This is the muzzleloader that anybody has e'er wanted and at present it is finally hither. The Remington 700 Ultimate is quite easily the best muzzleloader Remington has e'er offered and the finest production muzzleloader available today.

More than load combinations, 200 and 300 yard accuracy results, and chronograph data to follow as time permits.

For those that have asked about availability, the Remington 700 Ultimate should soon be available through Cabela's and Gander Mountain, and can currently be ordered through the following wholesalers:

Nib HICKS & CO LTD

CHATTANOOGA SHOOTING

GRICE WHOLESALE

Large Stone SPORTS

HORTON DIST CO INC

JERRY'Southward (PA) SPORT

SPORTS S LLC

Westward L BAUMLER CO

WILLIAMS SHOOTERS Supply