56 now, be 57 in February
shot my first BP weapon 42 years ago I think it was....shot my first gun about 50 years back
been a long time
shot my first BP weapon 42 years ago I think it was....shot my first gun about 50 years back
been a long time
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Had my 79th birthday last week. Started shooting BP 1960 with an 1863 .58 cal Springfield. Lots of NSSA things to do in north Virginia. Dad retired from the Navy 1962, moved to Jupiter, FL, No BP fans in the area then.
65. My Dad bought me a CVA Kentucky rifle kit when I was 13. I didn't get around to putting it together until I was 17. When I say put it together, I mean I just slapped it together. No sanding, staining or bluing, no nothing. It looked terrible. It wasn't until about 10 years later I actually reassembled it properly and shot it.
Dang this thread gives me mixed feelings. We need some more young blood in this hobby, its great we have such knowledgeable and experienced people. I fear with only 18% being under 50 we are going to loose so much in not a long amount of time. I worry in 10 maybe 15 years we won't have many resources left.
I turn 55 shortly I got into Muzzle loading in 2008 (I was 38 then) 17 years and I have to say it has been educational the things that were taught over the years (wrong) and the "Correct" I am learning today. Muzzle loading I have to remain teachable and not get as set like concrete in what I was taught
Wulf 1928 Wins! Hope you get another 20 shooting brother!
Howdy Wulf, got to do lunch sometime, packrat
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Am 76. first got interested in BP in the late 60s, early 70s. Was right out of the army. Can't say modern muzzle loading was in its infancy, but where I lived in Oklahoma there wasn't much going on. My first encounter with BP was Brazilian made under hammer of very questionable quality. Fortunately, I came across an oldish' man that had a collection of original muzzleloaders and wasn't hesitant in sharing his guns or his knowledge of BP weaponry.
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I made my first chimney loader when I was still in school. Didn't know too much till I met some of the old timers. I even made a rifling
machine and cut my own barrels till I learned it was faster to just buy the barrel. Got into buckskinning... I made every type from late 1300
to 1863.....I liked wheel lock and Miquelets best all tho I did make a bunch of Kentucky's.....I did get some pictures to save.....
machine and cut my own barrels till I learned it was faster to just buy the barrel. Got into buckskinning... I made every type from late 1300
to 1863.....I liked wheel lock and Miquelets best all tho I did make a bunch of Kentucky's.....I did get some pictures to save.....
There are some pictures of my work further up the scale here.
Maybe we have already, along with Raven, Troy, etc.
Todd Hayseed
32 Cal
Three of the activities I planned to be heavily involved in when I retire (about 5 years now) have literally died out, and the last one got so expensive and heavily regulated I can't do it anymore.
I used to go to a nightclub in LA that did roaring 20's music with a real band - and bring out the few survivors of that era as guests of honor. Then the 20's music ended, the 30's music ended. They still do WW2 on Memorial day & new years but its mostly 50's be-bop now, because there are actual living relics of that music era.
There is another club that "re-enacts" Disco. I no doubt look at them the same way they look at my Cowboys stuff. I'm not going to re-enact anything I had to actually live through. I can wait until I'm in actual hell for that, provided I notice the difference between that and Los Angeles.
The USCGAUX went into some stealth mode during COVID and no longer recruits. Last district meeting I went to they seemed happy that 22 people joined when only 17 quit. Not counting the 41 who died. Or they maybe half or more of them who could not do anything but the radio at this point.
I got into muzzleloading in 2019 at age 62. There is literally nobody else around me who does it, when I go to the range everybody else stops shooting and just takes pictures. But there is nobody for ME to learn from.
I got some expensive special equipment to let me reload black powder shotgun shells as they have to be shortened and roll crimped after just one use - only to discover my range is perfectly happy to let me pick up hundreds of once fired cases as nobody wants them. So now its one reload and away they go. And I still have far more than I need.
Less than 10% of the shooting on the ranges here is anything other than 9mm or .223. I am one out of maybe a dozen who reloads anything, and I have seen ONE other person using black powder. In anything.
jesse_ennis
32 Cal
19,will be 20 in February
I have muzzleloaders older than you!
jesse_ennis
32 Cal
It feels like I’m surrounded by old wizards it’s awesome to learn from these old fellasI have muzzleloaders older than you!
jesse_ennis
32 Cal
I’m 19 just getting into this, and trying to interest some of my friends, we’re out there but definitely few and far between. It’s super important to me to learn and appreciate all the things I can from these old timers in here while I can.
I'm about to turn 60, yet I walk in to the Annual General Membership meeting for our shooting club, and with 150+ people in the room, I look around and realize that I am probably one of the youngest people in the room.
