Claude's surveys

[BillinOregon]

Interesting replies on the surveys. I started shooting MLs with a Hawes brass-framed .36 Colt Navy about 1969. The largest response on the experience survey is shooters involved for nearly four decades. I'm a boomer, and I would about bet that those of us who wore coon-skin caps and sang the Disney Davy Crockett song as grasshoppers have been the core market for traditional muzzleloading all these years since, once we were old enough to buy muzzleloaders and black powder at the hardware store. Anyone out there still remember the electifying scene in the old Disney version of "Treasure Island" when Long John Silver gives young Jim Hawkins a flintlock pistol?

 

[roundball]

:hmm: that might have back before we got electricity....

 

[Geoff Jones]

Aya....matey....I remember well! Sad but true... :thumbsup:

 

[bob308]

yes jim a large ball and a light charge is all you need to stop a man.

 

[RC]

seems the numbers is a lil short? think there is 600 responses? 7900 members? c'mon RESPOND! or else we'll have to do the state thing and adjust the numbers to reflect the opinions and answers of the people who didn't respond....gees wildlife depts. do it all the time! jes a thought,,,be real interesting if all filled it out! RC

 

[bpbrs]

we'll have to do the state thing and adjust the numbers to reflect the opinions and answers of the people who didn't respond....gees wildlife depts. do it all the time!

:shocked2:

That's it RC, your name is going on the NYS DEC list of troublemakers.


Right after the new coyote survey is complete.

Bill

 

[RC]

:shocked2: AGAIN????? think they have it triplicate now?????? :cursing: RC

 

[romcneil]

My first experience shooting muzzle loaders was back about 1963 while I was in high school. My brother worked for a man in Albuquerque who collected black powder weapons ranging from late 17th century muskets to 19th century cartridge rifles -- not a gun in his collection that he would not take to the range and shoot. I had a chance to shoot several of them. One was a musket with a bore that you could fit your thumb into that was longer than I was tall, another was a Sharps buffalo gun which I still have.

My first muzzleloader, purchased about 1980,, was a Santa Fe Hawken which I later sold to finance my first flintlock - a Northwest Trade Gun.

Bob

 

[dlemaster]

Bill
My second muzzle loader was a Hawes .36 Colt Navy
I bought in 1968, paid $27.00 new. I remember caps were $.50 a can and Dupont 3F powder was $1.50 a pound. It was a lot cheaper to shoot than .22 long rifle shells which were $.50 a box of 50. I went to high school for half a day and worked in a machine shop till 5:00PM every day. I pulled in a whopping $30.00 a week pay check. LOL
Great memories.

Regards, Dave

 

[cowpoke1955]

I remember Danial Boone and Davy Crockett. Remember when you could mail order guns. All them military surplus rifle ads on the back page of the American Rifleman. I remember one ad for a .62 cal. percussion musket from South America for only $16. My grandfather talked me out of ordering it. Those days are gone.

 

[faw3]

Man with a BIG gun shop here has a collection of about every perc handgun ever made (1 of each type) AND A BUNCH of rifles maybe 200 of 1000 are flint's he paid around 10 each back in 1947 on discharge pay ( he was Army Ranger on D day ) the most he's ever paid is for a near perfect Walker (about what a new Chevy would of cost in 51) and a near or unfired 1803. The good old days. :grin: Fred :hatsoff: