Traditional muzzleloader

[Lwright]

Anyone ever hunt with a traditional style muzzleloader?

 

[Old Dog]

Yes, lots & lots of people. Next question please.

 

[possum_128]

I still use a side lock, I don't need no fancy inline smoke pole.

 

[Michigan Slim]

Yep

 

[Mgderf]

I like the ultra-modern stuffers myself,

www.gunbroker.com/ALL/BI.aspx?Keywords=CVA++(Electra++)


I actually have one of these, but I've not tried to hunt with it.

 

[Lwright]

Nice buck slim.

 

[vwarren]

Got my first deer at 8yo with a TC hawken 50cal. It's the only muzzleloader I'll ever own...

 

[Michigan Slim]

Thanks! Living or dead? proof to hold on to hope till the last day. Shot him on the last day of muzzleblaster season a couple years ago. The biggest of three that came out together.

 

[Hookeye]

Thompson Center Hawken .50 cal "Silver Elite" (reportedly they only made 500 of them).
It works OK (see avatar).

 

[Winamac]

Yep...Lyman Great Plains .50cal w/ round ball and patch w/ 70 grains 3F BP(NOT Pyrodex) 30 yds. Stopped and dropped the buck IN his tracks........Mic drop!

 

[Walking Bear]

I use a CVA but looking to buy something different after this coming season for muzzleloader (SATURDAY) SLim nice buck indeed

 

[natdscott]

Send me a PM Bear. I have a barrel for "something different"

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I got my TC Hawken .50 in 1986, when I was 24 and it's still the only gun I deer hunt with.

I shoot pyrodex at the range, but I only hunt with black powder, although I'm about halfway through my last pound of black powder and it's harder to find these days.

 

[natdscott]

...but I only hunt with black powder, although I'm about halfway through my last pound of black powder and it's harder to find these days.

Nah.

https://www.buffaloarms.com/black-powder

-Nate

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Nah.

https://www.buffaloarms.com/black-powder

-Nate

Good to know, thank you for that.

 

[natdscott]

Although hazmat surely bites.

I will say, sometimes you can get a few guys (say, here) to go together on an order. Hazmat split 4-5 ways is not so bad.

-Nate

 

[Restroyer]

Cabela's always seems to have lots of powder in their stores if one is near you (I go to the Cincinnati one and have been to the Louisville store and they both have had plenty of powder).

 

[yetti462]

FIL made me a flint lock, need to file the barrel so rear sight can be placed to fit. Once that work of art is complete, the new goal will be to pop a deer with it. This morning I'll be taking to not so traditional t.c. omega .

 

[ChrisK1977]

https://www.buffaloarms.com/black-p...ds-or-more-of-any-black-powder-goexeynsford3f

this what I use in all my TC Hawken snd Renegade rifle.

 

[spencer rifle]

I've "hunted" with a flintlock I made from a custom DGW kit, but haven't seen a deer when armed with it yet. Maybe this week? Gotta resharpen or replace the flint first.