I really want to order a Kibler kit, but I am waffling between the Woodsrunner and the Fowler. Leaning towards the rifle, a 54 caliber, but can see the utility of a 20ga fowler.
Get the fowler. You can hunt everything with it you listed. You might just get bit by the smoothbore bug and not need the rifle later it happens a bunch. A .600 round ball will kill anything if hit in vital area. And you can hunt turkeys to doves with it too. For all purpose fowler I run 62/20 ga as I like it better and own 2 of them now. Forever I was straight rifle guy I kept seeing videos or people shooting everything from round balls, buckshot, buck and ball, and shot through them not to mention arrows, and all kinds of other combinations of it fits down barrel. I tried loading shelled corn in mine and had many hits on target with it. Now I love the smooth bore.One thing I failed to mention, I have far more opportunities to hunt wildfowl and small game than I do big game. I'm going to ramble a bit here, so reader be warned. I was born in the Eastern portion of the great state of Orygun, Dad was a USAF Officer, and so we moved a bit, Texas, Arkansas, Alaska, South Carolina, New Jersey, Illinois, and then we parted ways as I bean my own USAF adventure on the flightline as an enlisted man fixing America's premier fighters. I was fortunate enough to experience Utah, a host of overseas locations, and culminated here in New Mexico. I used to think I'd never want to live anywhere but the mountainous states, to think at nearer 60 than 50, I have seen the error of my ways. I read of back East adventures with envy, being able to hunt deer every year, turkey, squirrels, and other critters, about the only thing I would miss immensely would be the multiple species of quail I love so dearly. Anyhow, I am still waffling like a politician here.
My trade gun has a 36" barrel and its really nice in the woods.Fowler is just to long for me, I'm 5'9" and have two rifles with 42 inch barrels and wouldn't' want anything longer. I would like a fowler but it would have to be shorter. I think the 38" barrel of the woodsrunner is just about right.
What fowler did you end up going with?Well I pulled the trigger on a 20ga Fowler today. Going to be doing a lot of reading, my very first flintlock.
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