How many years Muzzleloading experience?

[fire bear]

I started with a 100+ year old family .32 caplock in 1965. I've enjoyed it ever since.

 

[Relic shooter]

70+ years collecting, shooting, building & meeting many great m/l folks

 

[Griz 54]

50 years

30years

 

[okawbow]

Built my first rifle; a “Hawken “ of course, in 1973. Hunting and shooting traditional muzzle loaders ever since. Have built around 40 so far. My latest-

 

[1971fx]

I 1976 I was a member of the Bayville blackpowder club we had a Bicentennial target shoot right in Bayville NY village with Long Island sound as the backstop. this year makes 50 for me.I don't think that it would be allowed Today

 

[Yanqui]

47 or so. Enough to wish I hadn’t sold a few now.

 

[Yanqui]

Built my first rifle; a “Hawken “ of course, in 1973. Hunting and shooting traditional muzzle loaders ever since. Have built around 40 so far. My latest-

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That is one long piece of pipe! Excellent!

 

[Yanqui]

I go way back to around 1966 when I hit my first muzzleloader. 58 years so far.

I remember back in the 60’s, when I was a kid a couple original flinters at a flea market for $100. Lots of good stuff back then no one fully appreciated at the time.

 

[Flint1]

Got my first, a Navy Arms Pietta New Model Remington Army in December 1980, so currently 44 years.

 

[22ceejay]

I started in 1968, kept it up till around 1974. After a long break, started again in 1996, have been hard core since. So, all total 34 years. I hope to keep going, love to smell the powder and all the folks I've run across.

 

[gunpa]

36 years now. Great fun

 

[Doug Fay]

Well, in reality, about 1 year with real black powder. However, 65 years ago when I was 10, I had a toy Hubley cap pistol that looked like a flintlock. It finally broke. So I took the upper barrel, made a crude wooden stock for it, punched a touch hole in it using a nail, attached one of the hammers near the touch hole, and I had a muzzleloader! For powder, I scraped off the powder from 50 to 200 toy caps and put them down the barrel. It made a nice "poof" when I fired it using a single cap in the "pan" next to the touch hole. Then my grandfather told me about "wadding". Once I knew about that, it made an incredible "kaboom!", especially using the powder from 200 caps. I think I'm lucky to still be alive, as the barrel was definitely not made of top-grade gun steel

 

[rickpa]

62 years. My father bought me an original .32 percussion in 1962 that had been freshened to .36 by W.G. Suter who lived about 7 miles from us. Shot it for years then like a d.a. sold it to buy a TC "Hawken". Sold that to buy parts from Harry Schoeller at Antique Gun Parts to build my own. That was 1975. Built 9 more since then, last one in 2021. Flintlocks only.........Below....English sporting rifle. Colerain barrel, Chambers English lock, plank from Dunlap, barrel inlet by Dave Keck. I love building but hate barrel inlets.

 

[Artificer]

Bought my first ML while home on boot camp leave ca. Jan 1972, so getting close to 52 years.

Gus

 

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Off and on for at least 50 years, but it has never been my main focus, more so now than previously.