Black powder

[Delrio]

Do any of use cap and ball long guns or 44 revolvers, not the inline??

[big rockpile]

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[electronrider]

I have a hawkins cap and ball, and love it. When we go to the range, that's the one that all my family likes to shoot. One of the most accurate guns I own. IMHO inline is for cheaters Mine is .50 cal, and I shoot it at 75 grains for the most part. Gonna try to get out deer hunting with it one of these years.

[tn_junk]

I have .45 and .50 cal traditional rifles and a .44 cap and ball revolver that is my bedside gun. I would suggest getting a rifle with as fast a twist as possible to shoot pointed bullets. My experience with round balls killing cleanly hasn't been great.

galump

[Haggis]

Slow twist riflin's, GO-EX powder, long barrels, side locks, pillow tick patchin', an' round balls o' pure lead; "ya cain't go no better", at least not with a muzzleloader.

[big rockpile]

Originally Posted by galump

I have .45 and .50 cal traditional rifles and a .44 cap and ball revolver that is my bedside gun. I would suggest getting a rifle with as fast a twist as possible to shoot pointed bullets. My experience with round balls killing cleanly hasn't been great.

galump

I'm just the opposit all I've killed with Round Ball has dropped in their tracks.Conicals they run,just leave more Blood.

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[hunter63]

Be careful, the black powder gun is just a first step on the down hill slide back to the 1830's, first the gun, then there's watching Jeremiah Johnson a hundred times, then the clothes, the the camp, etc, etc, etc.
Keep your nose to the wind and your powder dry.....................

Just remember to run up under the smoke when you shoot something with one.

[big rockpile]

Originally Posted by hunter63

Be careful, the black powder gun is just a first step on the down hill slide back to the 1830's, first the gun, then there's watching Jeremiah Johnson a hundred times, then the clothes, the the camp, etc, etc, etc.
Keep your nose to the wind and your powder dry.....................

Just remember to run up under the smoke when you shoot something with one.

Yea my DW keeps reminding me I'm not able to go stay in the woods in the Winter with nothing more than a Tarp,Rifle,Knife,and Pan for Cooking.Says I'm not young as I use to be Ah well I know she is right.

big rockpile

I still use a cap and ball too. When they made it legal to use inlines here in Oklahoma I went out and bought the best inline on the market and hunted with it for two years. I had a harder time using it then I did the ole' cap and ball. So I went back to the traditional muzzleloader.

Here in Oklahoma we usually still have a lot of leaves on the trees when black powder season starts and I usually find the wooliest, brushiest place I can find to put my treestand up. Using a inline with a scope proved very difficult for me as most of the time the deer are usually about 10 to 15 paces from my treestand when I shoot. Using the ole muzzleloader with cap and ball was much easier and I haven't had any problems of putting that ball all the way through the heart and lung area.

[Delrio]

Those are nice pictures!! Where in Missouri are you at?

[pheasantplucker]

I shoot a .54 Hawken with 90 grains of ffg powder. Rifle weighs 9.5 lbs, so recoil is not at all punishing. I probably own a dozen firearms, and the Hawken would be the very last one I would part with. Nothing beats spending two or three hours sighting it in and plinking on a crisp fall day, fantasizing about deer.

[big rockpile]

Originally Posted by Delrio

Those are nice pictures!! Where in Missouri are you at?

I'm 25 miles North of Buffalo.In a town called Lead Mine.There is a 8,000 acre Conservation area here.

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[Delrio]

I kinda figured with your screen name that you were somewhere close!! We're just north of Springfield and praying to be moving soon, preferably Douglas County.

[CGUARDSMAN]

Originally Posted by Delrio

I kinda figured with your screen name that you were somewhere close!! We're just north of Springfield and praying to be moving soon, preferably Douglas County.

i deer hunt in douglas county..what area you lookin at??

[Delrio]

Ava area.