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I've been thining of this for
a while: I'm going back
to traditional muzzleloading,
not flint but percussion.
Ever since I bought an Omega
(great firearm) and shot a couple
deer. i kept thinking it was
like shooting a modern rifle,
kinda not fair in the basic sense.
I have a renegade 54 but my buddy is in
need of a 357 so I'm trading one of mine
for his Seneca 45cal
a while: I'm going back
to traditional muzzleloading,
not flint but percussion.
Ever since I bought an Omega
(great firearm) and shot a couple
deer. i kept thinking it was
like shooting a modern rifle,
kinda not fair in the basic sense.
I have a renegade 54 but my buddy is in
need of a 357 so I'm trading one of mine
for his Seneca 45cal
Comments
same for bow hunting.
Up here in Nh they all overlap and
I don't agree with it.
That's about the only thing Mass has going for it,
they have a well thought out hunting season.
Some laugh at me but when I take the ole smoke pole out hunting. I am wearing early 18th century clothing. I basically look like a mountain man. Just part of the fun of muzzleloading.
I own several cap locks and one flintlock. My 50 caliber Hawken can out shoot most inlines if I do my job.
I just bought a renegade 54 cal flintlock this spring for that very same reason, just no challange in new muzzleloaders.
I've got a caplock in 54 Renegade, great gun. What part of WV do you live in, I'm down near Beckley.
quote:Originally posted by hillbille
I just bought a renegade 54 cal flintlock this spring for that very same reason, just no challange in new muzzleloaders.
I've got a caplock in 54 Renegade, great gun. What part of WV do you live in, I'm down near Beckley.
parkersburg, mineralwells area.. My sister lives down yourway, she just retired from Concord college and lives near Athens.
However, the in-line doesn't offer any real advantage beyond faster ignition and perhaps a more familiar feel (for someone used to modern rifles) over a traditional percussion gun. The Lyman Great Plains Hunter, for instance, which is a basically Hawken-style rifle equipped with a fast-twist barrel, will launch the same projectiles to the same ranges as any in-line, assuming sighting equipment and a degree of shooter skill that will make such long shots possible. The secret to any muzzleloader's performance in terms of projectiles and ballistics is in the rifling of the barrel, not the outward look of the rifle or even really whether the cap is busted behind or alongside the powder charge. The Lyman rifle will just do the same basic job with a completely different look and feel than any "modern" muzzleloader.
A (roughly) .62 caliber smoothbore is actually about the most versatile muzzleloader a hunter could own, assuming circumstances allow him to keep his shots relatively close (100 yards is pushing it hard, even for an expert, and none of very fine shots I know would take a crack at a whitetail at much past 60-70 or so). Loaded with a patched round ball it's deadly on any non-dangerous big game that walks this continent and loaded with shot it's the perfect gun for anything from squirrels to wild turkey.
There are conditions in which the range and power that an in-line delivers are pretty much necessities, but the "primitive" smokepole in the hands of a practiced shot is all the more that's needed for close-range hunting. Not to mention that shooting one is a literal blast....
Real men don't need scopes on muzzle loaders either.
Well "real" old men do.
Got into muzzleloading for the challenge. Inlines take a far share of that challenge away.
Some laugh at me but when I take the ole smoke pole out hunting. I am wearing early 18th century clothing. I basically look like a mountain man. Just part of the fun of muzzleloading.
I own several cap locks and one flintlock. My 50 caliber Hawken can out shoot most inlines if I do my job.
If I put my .50 T/C Hawkin(patch & ball) on a bag. I fire a couple foulers. Then I put about a 4-6 in bull up at 100yrds.( Needs to be that big because the front bead will cover up that much at 100yrd). I can fire the next 2 shots in a side ways figure 8, if I do my part.[;)]
Looks like a peanut down range.[8D]