How long have you been ......

[Nessmuck56]

How long have you been shooting black powder ?? For me ,I started when I was 24 ..so that would give me 32 years of BP.

 

[Zonie]

41 years.

 

[Richard J.]

When I was 12. Will be 66 in Dec. You know when you look back at doesnt seem that long at all.

RJ

 

[Huntin_Dawg1215]

34 years

 

[Stumpkiller]

Bought my first muzzleloader 36 years ago.

 

[SgtSchutzen]

I started with an old CVA Colonial Pistol kit I did as a shop project in high school. Try that nowadays :haha: :haha: :haha:. That would have been about 32 or 33 yrs ago. I followed that with a 50cal CVA Mountain Rifle for deer hunting a year or two later. I still have the Mountain Rifle plus a few others, but that first pistol had a really crappy lock plus other issues due to my inept gunbuilding skills back then so I long ago junked it. I still have some of the parts around here and have thought about reusing the barrel for another pistol build sometime.

 

[Snow on the Roof]

I shot my first BP gun, a Remmington Zouave, at age 8. At 12 I started shooting competively that was 1967...you do the math. :haha:

Snow

 

[Coot]

Started with a Navy Arms '51 Navy in 1965 so that would be 47 years ago. With that much time to practice I should be a better shot by now .............. :hmm:

 

[jamesthomas]

Well, I guess I'm a newbe, been shooting blackpowder for 6 years now. Before that it was a Savage .243 bolt action that I wish I still had cause it was a sweet shootin' rifle.

 

[Bill Hall]

Started in 1976, a high school teacher got me started. 36 years on the button. Seems like yesterday. Bill

 

[Drago]

33 years ago, shot a friends .45 TC Hawkens so I got a .50 GPR and still have it

 

[Tommy Bruce]

About 28 years. Started with a T/C Hawken in high school. Other than percussion revolvers, I haven't shot anything but flint the last 15 years. A bit of an addiction it is!!

 

[54mountain]

shot my brothers for the first time in 1978 so around 34 years

 

[Lonegun1894]

About 14, almost 15 yrs, ago when I was 17. Can't say I haven't shot anything else since, but most of my hunting is with MLs or bows, so it works out and keeps me out of trouble--and doesnt feel like shopping like it did when I used a heavy-barreled .308.

 

[LaBonte]

since 1961 so 51 years - my great uncle got me started, he hunted all his life with muzzleloaders said he had no need of anything else and I've done most of my hunting with them since 1971

 

[flintlock75]

I shot my first BP gun, a 1873 trapdoor springfield rifle with a reduced charge when i was 5 years old. i was given my first ML when i was 8, a flintlock kentucky rifle, been hooked and shooting ever since. wow 40 years. :shocked2:

 

[Sunkmanitu Tanka]

started in the early seventies... Stopped for a few years.
Since 2008 only flintlocks...

 

[Silex]

I guess I'll take the newbie flag now.
For me the whole party started about 2 years ago with a supp. gun that shoots BP rounds.

Now in one and a half years I bought a cap and ball revolver then a .50 cal caplock and since June this year I am the proud owner of a 28 gauge flintlock smoothbore - she is almost ready to go to the field here in Germany.

Silex

 

[wattlebuster]

35 yrs an mostly flint for the past 15 :thumbsup:

 

I got my first rifle (percussion)in 1968. Didn't know much, and had no one to guide me, so it was sacrificed to the Gods of learning the hard way.
Next was a cheap but servicable 28 guage shotgun that killed a ton of tree rats. I still have it and plan on taking it out of retirement in the near future.
I bought my first flintlock rifle, an early Freddie Harrison product, at Dixie Gun Works with the money from my last Government check on my way home from Barksdale AFB in April of 1974.
Over the years so many black powder firearms have come and gone I can no longer remember them all. The ones I remember the most are some of the ones that were stolen from me. That took me out of the game for over ten years. I'm back.