I have a problem

[Adui]

I'm not sure you understood the intent of his post. He's not necessarily saying don't buy the gun. He's simply saying do not hide it from the wife, or in any way sneak the gun in.

In my case, my wife and I have an understanding. IF I ask before spending the money, and she says no, I cant have it. So, if i really really cant live without it, AND we have the discretionary funds to spend I simply buy it and tell her afterward. She might be mad, but she just adds that amount to what "I owe her". To date she has only called in the I owe her on one occasion. So i still owe her about a bazillion dollars...

 

[Billnpatti]

I thought my skivies were on fire but it turns out that I was having smoke blown into my neither regions. :haha: Darned good response, though. :hatsoff: :haha:

 

[rmark]

My wife complained just today that my muzzleloaders were too heavy for her - I pointed out I had picked up a nice TC cherokee just for her.

And a Pedersoli Tryon for me. And a cap & ball .36 for me. And a etc. for me.

Seems fair to me.

 

[cynthialee]

My wife complained just today that my muzzleloaders were too heavy for her - I pointed out I had picked up a nice TC cherokee just for her.

And a Pedersoli Tryon for me. And a cap & ball .36 for me. And a etc. for me.

Seems fair to me.

Borrow a really light abomination gun in .50 and have her shoot it, and then have her shoot a heavier, closer to traditional rifle in the same caliber. Bet she decides the few extra pounds aren't so bad after all once she feels the recoil diferance.

 

[Lowell]

Enough already!!
My original post was to show that i had 4
muzzleloaders with the following barrel twists,
1:66, 1:20, 1:24, 1:28. I feel that I have
basically everything covered, but still keep
going to auction sites and looking at guns with
a different twist. However some anal retentive
moderator removed two of the examples so that
it made the post mute.

Then you people hijacked the intent of the
post within the first 10 replies and turned
it into some strategy of sneaking it past the
wife. I got rid of the wife 25 years ago.

Get a life people, and learn how to read.

 

[50cal.cliff]

Lowell, you are the one that brought it up and these good folks were just having a shot at a little humor when responding too your post! There is nothing in this post that says whether you are a married man or not!

QUOTE:
I built my first rifle in 1977. Started hunting seriously in 1993.
My current rifles are as follows:
50 cal Sidelock 1:66
50 cal sidelock 1:24


My problem is that I keep going to Gunbroker and looking at rifles. In fact I have one on my watch list that closes tomorrow. A 50 cal sidelock 1:48 twist.
I don't shoot paper, only hunt. I don't think that I need another rifle. Do I? I think it is just a mental problem that I am looking for a cure.

So perhaps you are the one that needs to grow up and get a life, at the very least apologizing for acting like a jerk might make you and everyone who did reply feel a little better!

If you were really serious in asking a mental health question then you asked the wrong place as we all like too have a good time around here and too look at buying another rifle as a problem. Well I seriously doubt you are going to find too many that will see it that way!

 

[BrownBear]

Keep your eye open for 1:48 twist in various calibers. Lotta guys get the nickers in a knot over it, claiming it was some kind of compromise TC dreamed up for shooting both round balls and conicals. Kinda revisionist history, because a whole slew of originals were 1:48, including the holy Hawken.

I'm coming to prefer it more and more over all others- not because I shoot all that many conicals other than for play and experiment. In my experience it is a terrific "compromise" between heavy and light charges using round balls. I have twists as slow as 1:100 or so and as fast as 1:24.

The slow twists require godawful powder charges for the best accuracy and kinda stink with very light charges. By the same token, the fast twists with round balls are tack drivers with low charges and start to suffer when the loads get hot.

A 1:48 with round balls can be a tack driver with both light charges and heavy charges. My kind of compromise. Seems as though the smart guys making guns already thought of it a couple of hundred years back, because the shooters appear to have used light charges most of the time, but doubled up when they needed more range or power.

 

[rmark]

'My original post was to show that i had 4
muzzleloaders with the following barrel twists,
1:66, 1:20, 1:24, 1:28. I feel that I have
basically everything covered,'

Then stop at four. You in fact have most twist combinations covered. And stopping at four simplifies things.