Dear OLE TIMERS, Act Now

[Jeremy Bays]

Dear OLE time muzzleloader shooters,
Can you please create a PSA to warn people that have not been shooting too long,about the dangers of MLDA (Muzzle Loading Drug Addiction).

I have been shooting just over a year, and this is my journey into the abyss....
A pawn shop rifle...gateway gun
A Traditions kit... I can do this
A 1858 ...I need a pistol
A nice CVA percussion hawken...I need a cap rifle
1851 pistol....Another pistol...I need the rebel side
An India gun (NW Trade Gun)... I need a reenacting piece
A 20 ga Hawken smoothbore...because its so smooth
Now a Pencontia River Trade gun kit ....ready to graduate from "snap together models to glue models".

Start now to halt this sickness..... O look a flinter Sea Service pistol. I am holding it for a friend.

 

[Grenadier1758]

We post the warnings here all the time. Unfortunately, we are also enablers to the addiction.

 

[Bob McBride]

Exactly. Your asking the fox to guard the henhouse....

 

[mushka]

Be very leery of muzzle loaders. Two years ago I owned two of the pesky things. Today I own eleven of them.
Enter this sport gingerly.

 

[Justin.44]

My addiction has gotten pretty bad as well. I found a good deal on an 1858 yesterday that I just "Had to have because I only have Colt style revolvers and I need a Remington!"

Well after I brought it home the wife wasn't as enthusiastic as I was, so I asked if she was mad. She said "Do the dishes and take the trash out and I'll forget all about it."

I'm lucky to have a good woman to help enable my addiction.

 

[Cobra6]

Why are you soliciting for help in such a dark ally.


Cobra 6

 

[Robby]

Thirty or so guns and you will begin to cool a bit, but the fever will linger.
Robby

 

[rafterob]

My name is Robert , I am a muzzleloaderaholic........

 

[Ranger94]

Reading this is NOT helping

 

[oldwood]

At 50+ years of muzzle loader addiction , I'm still exploring the depths of the disease. The mental flash backs of previous hunts are often and severe. Dreams of building that special rifle , can last for hours, causing a distraction blocking a wife or girl friend's ability to communicate with the addicted individual. M/l hunting trips and sitting and holding a special m/l gun , sometimes renders temporary relief . That's all I know....oldwood

 

[Doc Ivory]

Lol!
ive been bitten.
1842 Harpers Ferry
Kibler kit on order and talkin with Kevin Blevins about a Colonial Fowler.

 

[Ames]

My addiction has made me run out into the cold dark woods, day after day. The family cant find me. Not even GPS can find me. I hide out in the darkness telling myself today will be better. I'll drop a deer soon. But yet I return the next day and the next.
Soon I'll just stay out there huffing black powder from a bag. Why did I ever touch the stuff?

 

[Bob McBride]

This is your fork in the road. I'm glad you joined us on the one less traveled.....

 

[deermanok]

I might have to text my dealer for a fix.

 

[zneufeld]

I excitedly told my buddy, who shot flintlocks as a teen, that I acquired my first flintlock, and I told him "I think I have most of the necessary accessories."

He responded "You'll need more. And then you'll need another gun."

 

[oldwood]

Ames.....had a specialist examine you're text. His comment was perhaps marinated deer back straps w/ mushroom gravy,over noodles might ease the symptoms. Ground deer meat loaf w/optional baked sweet potatoes , also has a beneficial effect.....oldwood

 

[Bledfor Days]

I went from just a couple of TCs and Investarms to a Browning Mountain Rifle. My wife checked the search history on the computer and wants to know who Jim Kibler is.
I need to clean up.

 

[Eutycus]

Sometimes it's pretty hard to explain what exactly need means as in "I need another gun".

 

[kje54]

I might have to text my dealer for a fix.

Psst!!

Have I got a deal for you!!

 

[tenngun]

Went to a twelve step program with some other front stuffers. The conversation went thus:
Hi I’m Jeff and I’m addicted
Hi Jeff, what’s your addiction
Muzzleloaders
What happened got?
Well I mostly keep three long guns at a time, all the wife allows. So right now I have.....
By the end of the night we planned a rendezvous and a deer hunt. While we formed a trekking outline.