Favorite Muzzleloader sayings

[Henry Miles]

Rock scratcher
cap buster
smokepole
dryballed
hangfire
makin' smoke

 

[user 48702]

Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood) was Gil Favor's "Ramrod" in Rawhide.

 

[springfield art]

Does keep your powder dry mean good luck or stay safe or something else?

Just that you should always be prepared;

 

[Ninering62]

Shot your wad,,

Now thats a good one right there. I've used that many times.

 

[Ninering62]

Just " Blowin Smoke ".

 

[204ruger100%]

2 balled.

 

[SlidePicker]

2 balled.

Too bald? I resemble that!

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

Had a conversation today where I told a co-worker I needed some input on the history of a sales discussion with our client (I’m in operations) because I didn’t want to go off half cocked.

Got me thinking of some other sayings that have muzzleloader origins…

Lock stock and barrel. Keep your powder dry.

What’s your favorite saying with muzzleloader origins?

First the powder, then the ball, or it won't shoot at all!!

Sure! You can use my ball puller! Do you need it?
Larry

 

[ord sgt]

Rock locks, cap guns, just love the smell of BP, inhale the smoke, good clean (looking at dirty hands) sport

 

[hanshi]

(Down range) Is that my target or is it urine's target.

I lick my thumb and wipe the front sight; it cuts the haze.

 

[bubba.50]

Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn......from inside with the doors closed.

 

[bubba.50]

Nothin' to do with muzzlers or the people who shoot them but, if ya asked my Grampaw what he had against whoever he'd been grumbling about for 10 minutes : "I ain't got nuthin' ag'in him, if I did I'd run it on through him".

 

[TFoley]

FIRE IN THE HOLE!!! (A requirement on our hunting club's rifle range to alert the beer drinkers sitting back at camp 25 yards away from the shooting bench. Don't want to spill any beer.)

From quarrying or mining, not shooting. Drilling a long hole, filling it with explosives, and setting off the fuze. Hence 'fire/fuze' in the hole.

 

[TFoley]

All your skill is of no avail when an angel urinates in your touch hole

Old German saying/adage.

 

[Archer 756]

Oh that SMELL OF REAL BLACK POWDER

 

[toot]

Pyrodex will rot yer gun

and yer teeth!

 

[toot]

when I was a young one, my father shot at a bird and it keep flying and I said dad you missed it, he said NO SON- THERE FLYES A DEAD BIRD!!!

 

[toot]

Uh-oh, my balls stuck!

oh! stuck to what?

 

[toot]

“Missed again”

missed still!

 

[toot]

the smell of real BP, in the AM, gets rid of my ED!