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Gentleman,
I was just wondering how many of you shoot muzzleloaders or black powder? How and when did you you get your start?
I started with a used CVA Mountain Rifle back in 1980. For a while, I shot black powder exclusively. Took a few deer and even a moose back in 1982 with a .54 T/C Renegade. I now shoot a 20 gauge flintlock fusil fin, and have always loved percussion revolvers. Sort of OT, but I had a blast Saturday shooting the old guns. Have any of you tried duck hunting with an old double?
Kind regards,
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Started with an absolute mint Brown Bess 50 years ago, used it to demonstrate ball accuracy with militia units, hunted briefly and sold it to buy a Fox.
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I do, but I'm just about done with it. A good friend of mine retired about 3 years(1991) before I did and moved to Utah. He suggested we get ML kits so we could hunt the ML deer season when I followed his move. I got us each a T/C Renegade kit from Midsouth. By the time I moved up here, he had deteriorated into playing pasture pool and we never hunted together with them. I went to rendezvouses and got into shooting a ML shotgun. Shot mostly skeet at a few shoots over the next 16 years, including this year. Never shot a deer with the rifle but killed a bunch of clay targets and a few pheasants, chukar and doves.
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I started with a CVA Frontier rifle to a TC Hawkin and finally a .50 cal flintlock by Jack Garner. I reenact the War of 1812 and have taken a nice doe with it and a handcast round ball. Your fusil...is that the type C tulle? Do you do French and Indian war with it?
I got the bug to hunt waterfowl with a blackpowder cartridge shotgun but luck didn't smile on me when I had my 10 ga. in hand. Next Year! I have the Republic 5 dram, 10 ga. #4 bismuth load.
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I'm almost finished building a .54 cal flintlock sporting rifle (1740 period) built with Jim Chambers components and a Rice barrel. The only things left is a small amount of engraving and bluing the barrel. The rifle has not yet been fired. Most likely this rifle will be used mostly for punching paper. Frankly, I enjoyed the challenge of building this gun from a bag of rough bits and pieces.
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Started about '78? Gosh there is darn near a rifle for every event or hunt here (.32,.36,.38,.40,.50& another .50).I do "need" a 54cal. or a 58cal. though. Only factory gun I have now is the Lyman GPR I bought back in '79, after a disaster with another factory gun.2 of the rifles are originals the rest are custom. Then there are the shotguns. All of mine are SxS's 3 in flint (16ga.,18ga. and a 20ga.)one custom, the other 2 original. Also 3 in perc.(12ga.,14ga.and a 16ga.) all of these are originals. I am shoot them all and have a great time with hunting,fur and feather, or shooting clay and paper.
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Our family hosted a black powder club on our property when I was growing up. I was around BP shooting/rendezvous all the time. My first rifle was a TC Hawkin and that is all I had to hunt with my first 4-5 years. I started shooting ML shotguns when I was about 16. It was an old Brown Bess replica. In muzzleloaders, I have 2 flint rifles (36&58cal), a 1840's vintage English percussion 13ga. single barrel w/rifle barrel, and 2 English percussion doubles. I still shoot them frequently, and compete in sporting clays at Friendship with the single and both doubles.
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How is blarstin' non-tox stuff in olden barrels?
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I had no luck waterfowl hunting with blackpowder cartridge shotgun. But I can tell you bismuth patterns very uniform in my 10 gauage, choked modified and full. I have a gun marked W. Richards but examination has found the locks are hand made but the metal bearing surfaces are'nt polished. Not a mark of quality or craftmanship. The gun has 1887 to 1904 Birmingham Proofs stamped on barrel and watertable. The barrel is marked London Laminated Steel, no address. It does however work. The barrels ring and have been manga-fluxed and passed.
I use the Republic Mettalic Cartridge load: 5 drams of bp 1 1/8 oz of #4 bismuth
Bismuth will not harm the barrel. I'd like to try tungsten matrix if it was available for reloading.
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Relax; we're all experts here.
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