How many years Muzzleloading experience?

mike54 · Dec 15, 2024

30yrs

SPQR70AD · Dec 15, 2024

jd hearity said:
Bought an EIG 1851 Navy .36 from Woolco for $41.50 in 1968. Brass frame. Loaded full chambers and shot it loose in a couple of years and traded for a Remington by Euroarms in .36 cal.. Then a rifle, a shotgun, and I became obsessed with muzzleloading.

do you realize that $41 in 1968 is now $2.5 million?

Swagman · Dec 15, 2024

Forty years, purchased my first muzzle loader in 1984, it was a Parker Hale Enfield Rifled Musket ( 3 bander). Still have it but it has not come out of the cupboard for a few years as I have been shooting flint locks for the last 35 years.

Bullit · Dec 15, 2024

46 years

stickmann00 · Dec 15, 2024

I received my first custom flintlock in 1985, built by my late friend Jay Olson of Seattle. The parts were from Ted Fellowes, (a founder of Cascade Mountain Men) and Track of the Wolf.

Kansas Kid · Dec 16, 2024

47 years

jtkerk · Dec 16, 2024

44 years

sethwyo · Dec 16, 2024

Quarter of a century now

sethwyo · Dec 16, 2024

LonestarShootR said:
About 90 days. Do I win a prize?

muzzloading is it's own reward

Sitka56 · Dec 16, 2024

Sparkplug said:
I am curious how many years of combined experience we have in this group. To make things easier on me to keep a tally, when telling me your time reply like this...

12 years

...and only have the years in the comment with nothing else. Any other discussions are welcome, but anything other than this format will not be counted. I will occasionally post a running total.

I am also doing the same in the Re-enactment section.

18

Mad Professor · Dec 16, 2024

Got a Lyman Plains rifle with two barrels, 58 and 62 smoothie, in 1985. Let's call it 40 years.

I see I'm not the only old geezer here.........

Rodd Boyer · Tuesday at 9:07 AM

28 years with percussion
7 years with flintlocks

Old Bear · Tuesday at 9:12 AM

mike54 said:
30yrs

This is

Sitka56 said:
18

this is Old Bear 62 years

OLUT · Tuesday at 10:16 AM

Sparkplug said:
I am curious how many years of combined experience we have in this group. To make things easier on me to keep a tally, when telling me your time reply like this...

68 years ..... I started shooting black powder in 1956 and got my first gun in 1958 (a very cheap old single barrel shotgun made with a civil war musket barrel musket)

OLUT · Tuesday at 10:20 AM

68 years ... I started shooting black powder back in 1956 with an old WW2 veteran and bought my first black powder gun in 1958 ( a cheap old single barrel percussion shotgun made with a civil war musket barrel)

oldwood · Tuesday at 10:24 AM

Coinneach · Tuesday at 7:55 PM

It began back around 1976, then on and off during my 37 year Army career ( although I hoarded everything as I endured and waited) so that makes it 48 years to date.

I retired in 2007 and then was able to go mainstream active, an addiction thats both enjoyable and practical in every sense.

kipcarter · Wednesday at 9:02 PM

Started in the Fall of 1964 with an original Colt 51 Navy with only 4 nipples! So that makes it 60 years as of now.

stephenprops1 · Thursday at 11:34 AM

I started muzzleloaders in 1978. Didn't get really involved until around 1985.

pmccoywss · Friday at 10:58 PM

I started in 1971, so 51 years (although I've shot very little blackpowder the last few years).

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