dont do this boys and girls

[Bobby James]

Where in NW Arkansas?

Springdale

 

[Adui]

Ahh yes, the lack of unallocated funds is why I have not found another weapon to buy s well.. I'd been in the same boat Im afraid.

At least you did get to shoot though! :thumbsup:

 

[Alden]

A friend of mine drive a snow machine in 40 below zero weather for 30-40 miles in interior Alaska on a winter moose hunt only to find his lock was missing out of his rifle when he got in and was setting up camp. He had removed it for cleaned and lubing and forgot to put it back together. Mike D.

That struck me as funny and probably the dopiest failure I've ever heard. I can understand forgetting the magazine(s) or bringing the wrong ammo for a modern gun, but bringing just the stock and barrel of your BP rifle?

 

[satx78247]

To ALL,

In "The OBAMANATION of 2013", I have to buy whatever Pyrodex/black powder that is AVAILABLE here. - Most merchants carry "whatever I can get" & that is NOT much. = Last weekend at the BIG San Antonio Gun Show, I didn't see ANY Pyrodex OR black powder, NO "period-style accoutrements" and FEW muzzle-loading weapons of any sort.

yours, satx

 

[Wes/Tex]

Dang, guy, we were both there. Not sure which day you made the rounds there but I was the goofy guy with the squatting deer on the back and the note,"Hey vegetarians, my food pooped on your food"!

 

[satx78247]

TOO BAD we "missed each other".
(I was there Sunday from Noon on. - Saturday was the game & then I had to work "selling tickets" at our OCTOBERFEST starting at 6PM.)
I would have introduced you to PETE'S TAKO HOUSE on Broadway for lunch. = The TEXAS PLATE is OUTSTANDING & $5.95 at 11AM-3PM.

Btw, did you find ANYTHING worth buying in the BP/ML line?

yours, satx

 

[Wes/Tex]

Btw, did you find ANYTHING worth buying in the BP/ML line?

yours, satx

Sadly, no. Not even something that loads up the wrong end! Most of what little muzzleloading there was didn't prick my fancy or had some issue I didn't feel like messing with for the price they asked.

 

[satx78247]

The ONLY thing that I saw/wanted was a "rather plain-vanilla" & "well-used"/abused .43 Mauser caliber cased double rifle (with all the accessories) & it was priced at least 3x its true value, considering the gunsmithing that it needed.
(I collect early drillings, cape-guns & CSA relics & saw NOTHING else that I was interested in buying, beyond an "Arkansas soft" sharpening stone for 6 bucks & a Dr.Pepper.)

yours, satx

 

[cynthialee]

that's what you get for shooting fake powder

:blah:

 

[satx78247]

Maybe "tenngun" is in the same shape as we San Antonians are: You buy whatever you can get.
(I went into a large sporting-goods store near here a couple of weeks ago for 2F or 3F BP & was told that, "We don't carry that anymore because it's dangerous. It might just catch fire or blow up.")

The GROSS IGNORANCE of the "non-BP shooting public" about ML subjects is STUNNING, as a direct result of the FOOLISHNESS & LIES published/broadcast by the "main-stream press" & the "gun-HATERS" of the bureaucracy.

On a "somewhat related subject", I was asked for 3 kinds of "photo ID" in an Austin store the other day and was then asked, "WHY do you want to buy SO MUCH ammunition?"
(I was trying to buy 2 boxes of 20 rounds each, for my old "duty pistol".- I'm a retired LEO, btw.)
Since when is 40 rounds of ordinary 9mm JHP "so much ammunition" & what business of the store's employee is it, anyway????
(ImVho, a lot of people in the USA have "lost their marbles", if they ever had any.)

Note: At the San Antonio gun-show last weekend, "dealers" were asking as much as $110.oo for a 50-round box of ordinary .38SPL lead 158grain RN. - That is what used to be called: HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

just my opinion, satx

 

[Asher]

Satx, I thought you'd know to expect that kind of questioning from the kooks in Austin. Anywhere else in our grand state they'd ask, "why are you only buying 40 rds?! We carry 100 rd bricks!"

 

[satx78247]

To ALL,

One of "the standing jokes" here in SA these days is: "I have a friend who is 'a big player in the commodities market.' - Just yesterday, he bought a hundred shares of stock in a box of 12 gauge shotgun shells."
(Insert "a cynical chuckle" here.)

yours, satx

 

[satx78247]

Despite "the rather peculiar reputation" of Austin, I don't expect to be questioned by a minimum wage clerk at a department store, that sells guns/ammo, especially since I showed her my "badge & creds".- The ONLY question that I expect is, "Will that be cash or credit card?"

yours, satx

 

[Zonie]

All of which has absolutely nothing to do with the original topic which basically stressed the importance of taking the right kind of powder with you when you go out to shoot your muzzleloader.

Can we get back to talking about the OP?

 

[satx78247]

Pardon me for pointing out that it certainly has to do with the difficulty of purchasing black powder, Pyrodex, caps, balls, flints or most anything else that is a part of the shooting sports.
(In much of the USA in 2013, IF you fail to take a piece of equipment/accessory/powder/etc. to go hunting/re-enacting/doing a "living history demonstration" project OR if you do something as simple as "picking up the wrong shooting bag", you may well NOT be able to purchase anything to replace it, within a reasonable period.)

Also to be considered NOW is whether or not a prospective purchaser of black powder is likely to be reported to the local police as "a suspicious person, who is trying to buy explosives" and/or "might be a potentially violent person". - I can promise everyone here that that spurious allegation being made by anybody will ruin your day/week/hunting trip/etc, should some "overly sensitive person" make just one phone call to the police in most any metropolitan area today.

just my opinion, satx

 

[Rifleman1776]

There is a special forum here for that kind of discussion.
BTW, going to an event unprepared is never good but can teach a lesson of the type we are striving to preserve with this avocation. An unprepared soldier, explorer, frontiersman, trapper, etc., if unprepared probably never came back after venturing into the unknown forest. We are trying to develop the discipines needed to survive. Remembering to bring the supplies is just part of that discipline.

 

[M. De Land]

If it ever comes to heading into the brush to survive I won't be taking any of my muzzle loaders! Mike D.

 

[frogwalking]

I know the feeling. It has nothing to do with Obama, however. It is simply the result of supply vs. demand at work. Lots of people are afraid, that is, terrified, and as a result, are buying anything that looks like ammunition. Around here it is .22 cartridges. The horders plan on using them for money after the government falls :youcrazy: ...................... I just want to shoot.

 

[satx78247]

Fwiw, I didn't say, in my comment above, that it has anything "to do with Obama". - Instead, I believe it is MASS HYSTERIA promoted & constantly fed by the "gun-HATERS", "fools in public office" and the KNOWING LIARS in "the mainstream press".

Stupid, ignorant, hate-FILLED, morons FEAR firearms/black powder/ammunition/chainsaws/many unfamiliar (to them) objects and even fear/hate FREE SPEECH, should that "free speech" differ in any detail with their preconceived notions, moronic opinions, prejudices and nitwittery.

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

that's what you get for shooting fake powder

:blah:

I'm so ashamed.