Hello from Hellinois

snakebit · Aug 30, 2024

Smokey Plainsman said:
Welcome from So. Ill.

If you’re ever down this way Ill buy ya a brewski and a Italian beef.

Hopefully not an Old Style.

snakebit · Aug 30, 2024

Hello from central PA. Former Illinois resident (south of 70). Still go back to hunt with my brothers every November.

Smokey Plainsman · Aug 30, 2024

snakebit said:
Hopefully not an Old Style.

No sir. We wouldn’t touch that with a ten foot pole. This is what we drink on the freedom loving end of the state:

LSLibelo · Aug 30, 2024

Welcome from California.

springfield art · Aug 30, 2024

SpringThunder said:
Well it hasn't froze over here but it sure is burning as of late. Illinois boy here.

I don't have much knowledge of traditional muzzleloaders except I wish my old man would hand down his old man's kit hawken. He traded 51 dollars worth of silver to the local baitshop owner many years ago for that kit. Him and his brother went in on it for a Christmas gift to my grandfather. What a gift! I don't think my grandfather ever drew blood with that rifle. My dad always wanted to take a good buck with it and have it mounted with the rifle then being placed in the rack. He doesn't break it out ever anymore and I wish to be able to do that for him but it might be a long time before that happens.

I'm on the modern muzz site and been kicking around the idea of getting a traditional rig. Figured it'd be wise to get on here for the trad knowledge. They have it there too but can probably get more here.

Thanks for having me!

Those modern, whiz-bang, slick, space-age "in line", shotgun-cap "muzzleloaders" give me the heebie-jeebies! Not in a good way!

dracer · Aug 30, 2024

welcome to the forum

snakebit · Aug 30, 2024

Smokey Plainsman said:
No sir. We wouldn’t touch that with a ten foot pole. This is what we drink on the freedom loving end of the state:

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That's really nothing to brag about.

But hey, it's whatever you like. Stag brings back bad memories.

Smokey Plainsman · Aug 30, 2024

snakebit said:
That's really nothing to brag about. But hey, it's whatever you like. Stag brings back bad memories.

It’s a good, full bodied beer with a smooth flavor and a crisp, refreshing finish. It’s also one of the cheapest around so it’s a great bang for your Buck and very popular among working class folks down here where it has a loyal following.

Maybe you’re right it’s “nothing to brag about” but I’d rather sip an ice cold Stag beer than some $10 a bottle microbrew fancy pants sissy beer!!

Now you got me hankering for a pickled beet egg and a Stag lol.

snakebit · Aug 30, 2024

Smokey Plainsman said:
It’s a good, full bodied beer with a smooth flavor and a crisp, refreshing finish. It’s also one of the cheapest around so it’s a great bang for your Buck and very popular among working class folks down here where it has a loyal following.

Maybe you’re right it’s “nothing to brag about” but I’d rather sip an ice cold Stag beer than some $10 a bottle microbrew fancy pants sissy beer!!

Now you got me hankering for a pickled beet egg and a Stag lol.

Pickled jalapeno egg and a Budweiser and I'll get the first round.

Eterry · Aug 30, 2024

SpringThunder said:
Well it hasn't froze over here but it sure is burning as of late. Illinois boy here.

I don't have much knowledge of traditional muzzleloaders except I wish my old man would hand down his old man's kit hawken. He traded 51 dollars worth of silver to the local baitshop owner many years ago for that kit. Him and his brother went in on it for a Christmas gift to my grandfather. What a gift! I don't think my grandfather ever drew blood with that rifle. My dad always wanted to take a good buck with it and have it mounted with the rifle then being placed in the rack. He doesn't break it out ever anymore and I wish to be able to do that for him but it might be a long time before that happens.

I'm on the modern muzz site and been kicking around the idea of getting a traditional rig. Figured it'd be wise to get on here for the trad knowledge. They have it there too but can probably get more here.

Thanks for having me!

Howdy from North Texas and welcome to the forum

snakebit · Aug 30, 2024

Smokey Plainsman said:
It’s a good, full bodied beer with a smooth flavor and a crisp, refreshing finish. It’s also one of the cheapest around so it’s a great bang for your Buck and very popular among working class folks down here where it has a loyal following.

Maybe you’re right it’s “nothing to brag about” but I’d rather sip an ice cold Stag beer than some $10 a bottle microbrew fancy pants sissy beer!!

Now you got me hankering for a pickled beet egg and a Stag lol.

I remember when it was brewed in Belleville.

Colonial Boy · Aug 30, 2024

Welcome from New England.

SpringThunder · Aug 30, 2024

springfield art said:
Those modern, whiz-bang, slick, space-age "in line", shotgun-cap "muzzleloaders" give me the heebie-jeebies! Not in a good way!

I hear you. Most the guys at the range look down upon me too hahahaha. For some reason they like smokeless muzzleloaders which blows my mind.

Got a pile of cap and ball revolvers that I've picked up over the years. Looking to expand upon things. A muzzleloading shotgun of some sort would probably be the best bet as I chase turkeys like there's no tomorrow in the spring and as often as I can come fall.

Beaverman2 · Aug 30, 2024

snakebit said:
Hopefully not an Old Style.

What's wrong with Old Style ?, I was weened on that in HS in the early 70's Chicago born and bred on the NW side of the city, now in wet western WA, welcome aboard!

snakebit · Aug 30, 2024

Beaverman2 said:
What's wrong with Old Style ?, I was weened on that in HS in the early 70's Chicago born and bred on the NW side of the city, now in wet western WA, welcome aboard!

I think you northern Illinois fellas are the only ones who drink that stuff

Beaverman2 · Aug 30, 2024

snakebit said:
I think you northern Illinois fellas are the only ones who drink that stuff

Not anymore, Leinenkugel or Kokanee here in the upper west corner of the country, or we go slumming with some Rainier!

snakebit · Aug 30, 2024

Beaverman2 said:
Not anymore, Leinenkugel or Kokanee here in the upper west corner of the country, or we go slumming with some Rainier!

I still enjoy a (several) cold Budweiser long necks. Although I did try some Estrella Jalisco, it's a pilsner from Mexico. They aren't bad. When I was a kid, where my grandparents lived in southern Illinois, it was "dry". My grandad would drive to Evansville Indiana and buy PBR by the pallet. Kept 2 fridges in his garage fully stocked

SpringThunder · Aug 30, 2024

Miller lite or Yeungling for me but if yall are buying keep them pouring! Highlife and old style definitely were the first though.

Can't get the yeungling here yet though. That's sadly only when I make it to the eastern coast states chasing turkey. Still a good handful times a year though!

snakebit · Aug 30, 2024

SpringThunder said:
Miller lite or Yeungling for me but if yall are buying keep them pouring! Highlife and old style definitely were the first though.

Can't get the yeungling here yet though. That's sadly only when I make it to the eastern coast states chasing turkey. Still a good handful times a year though!

By brother gets it. He lives in Highland. He may get it in MO though.

SpringThunder · Aug 30, 2024

Go to cape to fill the 55 gallon drums with fuel and stock up on dip and smokes to resell.... we all go to MO hahahaha.

I have heard it's supposed to be here eventually. Bars getting the supply first. My local watering hole in the cornfields doesn't have it yet.

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