Here is What I Love About Muzzleloading

[Hermit Tim]

Hecks yeah , just shoot off the darn porch , I love it ...

That porch really does look like a great place to sit and enjoy that first bucket of coffee on a nice cool fall morning.

 

[Rob M.]

That porch really does look like a great place to sit and enjoy that first bucket of coffee on a nice cool fall morning.

PERFECT diagnosis !! Sometimes your drinkin coffee and watchin the birds _love my cardinals and woodpeckers , other times yer watchin the deer .... I love it

 

[bajabuc]

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I just drive up to my back door...work outa off my tailgate of truck and don't have to drive anywhere! I'd die in town area in 3 months!

I used to live in Wyoming...Wolf wyoming...it's not a town any longer...lost it's postoffice...but...hunting season I walked out my back door and over to the fence...shot a nice mule deer buck next to the fence...walked back, drove my dodge 4x4 over to the fence...loaded the animal and back to the garage. .50 dixie poorboy

Oh yeah...the wife butchered it while I watched. Can't find a girl like that in the city.

 

[SeaBee133]

Friend who hunts the farm filled a buck tag (we get 2 bucks each) on modern opener. All of 1/8 mile from my front porch. Since he was hunting while fighting broken ribs, we loaded it on my truck and drove to the front orchard. Field dressed in the orchard, hosed it out in the front yard. Next morning I popped 2 breeding age female coyotes. ROA off the front porch, about 60 yards. Another friend is hair on tanning the hides.
Having a 30 acre “yard” to play in is nice, right up until mowing season…

 

[flatcreek]

I shot right out my backdoor 50 yd target, up to about 300 if I leave the porch and my tree stand is a 100 yds or so from the porch and believe it or not I live in New Jersey. I do love my home, but wish it wasn't in NJ.

 

[flatcreek]

Got this one out of my stand yesterday evening.g.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Got this one out of my stand yesterday evening.View attachment 367112g.

yeaaaa. congrats to you. good shooting bud

 

[Spikebuck]

I always figured if I can't pee off the back deck, I don't want to live there!

I can shoot up to 125 yards on my own range, but also have a membership on a DNR range about 15 miles away. I only go there during weekday mornings. I made the mistake of going in the late afternoon or weekend a few times. I could only get a couple shots done before the line had shot many times and wanted to go look at targets. Many would shoot a whole clip as fast as they could pull the trigger and hit nothing. I just saw $$$ flying out with every casing.

Had some guy set up with some kind of modern .50 cal behemoth. At first he set up just a foot to my right, so I warned him he was going to get burned from the touch hole fire! He moved over a few feet. The shockwave almost knocked me over when he fired! That was it for me.

Traditional muzzleloaders are beautiful to look at, fairly economical, deadly on game, and SO fun to shoot! What more could a person want in a gun!

 

[Alan O]

I just get no pleasure from modern guns any longer. Too expensive , too high recoil , you fire one shot , it becomes boring quickly. I can take any of my safe queens and shoot a group at 200 yds. , boring. Though I have little time just now to build or shoot m/l guns , old and sick , I still have a couple friends that remember the glory days of hunting , shooting , and scratch building m/l's. The m/ling sport is the most entertaining affliction out there. Run out of bullets , cast some more. Have a friend w/a m/l problem , fix it for him. My needs are easy , lead balls , black powder , flint. Have enough to last me 'til Jesus sends for me. Amen.

With a muzzleloader - especially a flintlock (pistol or rifle) - each shot is hand-made, and a meditation of sorts. The conditions (the flint, its position in the jaws and its sharpness, the primer and how it lays in the pan, etc.) have to be just right. I love that.

 

[Toad1]

I have lost all interest in my center fire rifles after I found flintlocks. I love the slow pace, shoulder not destroyed, and just enjoying the process. It’s so relaxing.

 

[Coinneach]

Here in our County of 25000 we have one of the best shooting ranges in the State with concrete benches and targets to 1000 yards. Just a couple of years ago you would be hard pressed to find an open bench. People out there shooting every kind of gun you could think of. Now there are very few people at the range. Couldn't figure it out until I went out with a friend of mine to sight in his gun. In a half of hour and ten shots later he was done. Hardly worth the trip I thought to myself. When I go to the range, two hours later I have only shot 10 rounds because I clean my barrel after each shot. At least that's the way it is with my long range muzzleloaders.

Are you starting to wonder where I am going with this? Do I like cleaning the gun after every shot? NO, but I got two hours of entertainment for six bucks, he got one half an hour entertainment for fifty bucks. Here is the break down: Lead (free), black powder (40 cents per shot), caps (15 cents per shot). An his was five dollars per bullet (one of those new fangled caliber, high powered guns), but the best part about the whole thing is I can now have my choice of benches. In the recent past, I am guessing, I have seen a lot of shooters spend one to two hundred dollars at the range in one sitting, and may be more.

I think I am going to pay $5.00 and have one of my grandchildren clean my gun for all of the money I am saving.

Got this one out of my stand yesterday evening.View attachment 367112g.

The Deer and the Girl ?

 

[Whitworth]

Purchased my little chunk of Heaven 41 years ago so I could shoot and pee where I wanted to. Built my passive solar house I designed with lots of glass to see and appreciate the surrounding beauty of the trees, birds and animals everyday. My shooting bench/picnic table is only 10 feet out the door so forgetting something doesn't ruin my day, just walk back inside for the caps or whatever I forgot. Usually shoot with my brother Steve so the slow pace of muzzle loading and communal cleaning up afterwards suits a couple of retired gentlemen. Makes for a nice change from running the combat range with modern handguns to stay proficient Like many of you guys, after living free like this I'm not well suited to living around people since shooting and peeing in the yard are usually frowned on in town