How much knowledge is available?

[WV_Hillbilly]

Folks,

I don't know how to set up a poll on here, but it would be nice to have someway to tally up the combined total of years of exposure/experience with muzzleloaders. I would expect the number to reach at least a few thousand years.

It would just be interesting to see how much it is.

Regards, and shoot safely!
WV_Hillbilly

 

[dlpowell]

33 years and still going

 

[musketman]

Started shooting black powder in 1976... (30 years and counting)

 

35 years and ain't quit yet.

Powell, Musketman and me makes 98 years and with your two that makes a hundred. :rotf: :rotf:

 

[MikeChapin]

Thirty years here. Got into it during the bicentennial and haven't looked back.

 

[Holley]

33 years and going down hill fast. Just had another knee replacement. :shocked2:

 

[Norskie]

Been shooting since I was 10, switched to muzzleloading 12 years ago.

 

[RC]

wv, 24 years.....wish I knew about it 20 years before that!

 

[RC]

Folks,

I don't know how to set up a poll on here,

MUSKETMAN, YOU'RE ON! show us yer magic! RC

 

[dmills]

Less than a year with traditional MLs. And I only have two rifles and a pistol. Thanks to this board, I have been drawing heavily on the knowledge and experience and I feel like I am much further along the learning curve than I would have been, trying to learn only by trial and errorS. :thumbsup:

 

[Mike Brooks]

26 years shooting , 25 of those building.

 

[Frank/Pa]

Started in 1974, so 32 years here.

 

[shmrck1]

Somewhere around 10 years less than 'tipis'
and 13+ years longer than her new knee :rotf: :rotf:
Got It? Around 20+ years
snake-eyes :hmm:

 

[Tumblernotch]

I started hunting when I was 9, but shot my first ML, a Mule Ear, when I was 14 in July 1973. Bought my first ML in '74. Been shootin' 'em ever since, rarely ever shoot a cartridge gun. So I reckon I been makin' smoke for 33 years and almost 3 months.

 

[Snuffy]

I'm still a baby here :rotf: .... 13.8 years.

 

[Boomer]

I started in 1976 (caught the bicentential fever )

So this is my 30th anniversary :rotf:

 

[bob1961]

I'm still a baby here :rotf: .... 13.8 years.

gee i'm not even born yet then at 3 years :rotf: .............bob

 

[GreyWhiskers]

Hillbilly,

I also started in 1976 after buying a TC kit. Guess that makes it 30 years but it's been on and off. :grin: GW

 

[CoyoteJoe]

This is my 50th year but who's counting, it's all good.

 

[boar]

Got my first in 1982, have twenty some now. 24 yrs later. Nobody in my family had owned one that I knew before,had alot of other guns and pistols. I was 43 when I got mine,wish I could of had them sooner, I acually knew what to do with them by instinct, would go to library and read up and be right. Dilly