If you could change one thing about muzzleloading...

[azmntman]

Oh yea! Bet she can cook too :grin:

 

[dsayer]

Hahaha! You guys might be right about this lady...

My wife was not impressed when I switched to BP. All rifle cleaning must now be performed in the garage. :yakyak:

 

[azmntman]

I have yet to be banned from the kitchen but EACH & EVERY cleaning there are "comments" :yakyak:

 

[SgtMaj65]

Yes ..... comments! Mine are something more, like great bodily harm if I don't take that damn rifle out in the garage ..... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
Then, when I do clean everything out in the garage ... "what's that damn smell in the garage?!!!" "Are you sick?" :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
I always say, with my best smart-aleck look ”” "what smell?" :wink:
I always tell her that I can run faster scared than she can mad. :idunno:

 

[Britsmoothy]

I have yet to be banned from the kitchen but EACH & EVERY cleaning there are "comments" :yakyak:

+1 :thumbsup:

 

[dsayer]

I always tell her that I can run faster scared than she can mad. :idunno:

:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[dsayer]

I have yet to be banned from the kitchen but EACH & EVERY cleaning there are "comments" :yakyak:

Congratulations on a somewhat less intolerant partner! :rotf:

 

[azmntman]

30 yrs this July, we both pick our battles :surrender:

 

[hanshi]

Most trips to the range with flintlocks gets lots of attention from other shooters; caplocks don't get quite as much attention but they do get some. I do get quite a few of the curious to shoot my flintlock and they are uniformly amazed how quick it goes off. I've made a few range friends that way, too. I have rifles of both types and enjoy them all; but flinters are the ones that follow me into the bush. I just kinda like primitive. I got both my first capgun and first flint gun in the 1960s.

 

[stubshaft]

:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[tenngun]

There is nothing wrong with cap guns. I have shot them my self. Just do it in private, remember it’s nobodies business and wash your hands afterwords.

 

[curator]

If I could change but one thing with muzzle loading guns it would be to have a black powder substitute that would work in flintlocks and not be corrosive. (Is that 2 things?) Frankly, I am happy with the status quo.

 

[Britsmoothy]

There is nothing wrong with cap guns. I have shot them my self. Just do it in private, remember it’s nobodies business and wash your hands afterwords.

:rotf:

 

[jdw276]

Always good nature banter between flinters and cappers. We shoot on a 75 yard range. Fun to have a novice observer watch us hit a fresh painted target white, shoot a 54 cal and hit and their eyes bug out at the size of the "hole". That big round ball splatters and chips a bunch of fresh paint off the target and it look sseems like about a 2" hole from the benchs.

Get some oh my's out of them.

 

[stubshaft]

I was afraid shooting them would grow hair on my palms... :idunno:

 

[Redstick Lee]

to all:

i've known lots of folks that have soured/frightened 1st timers by starting them with max charges in barrel and pan, to produce the proverbial "mule kick"....and have shaken my head at them.........

it's not like it was in days gone by where almost every young person has shot some friend or family members smoke-pole at some point......and i've found the way to really get someone interested instead of spooked, is to set them up for successful close range shots from whatever they're shooting.......once they're hooked, they'll start increasing the distance and downsizing the targets on their own.

 

[Britsmoothy]

I was afraid shooting them would grow hair on my palms... :idunno:

I just shave it buddy.

B.

 

[SgtMaj65]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[stubshaft]

I agree totally! I worked as a range master at the local pistol range for over 23 years. It never ceased to irritate me, when some "macho" shooter would hand his girlfriend or kid a .44 mag to shoot and catch their "jolly's" when the poor neophyte uncorked it. I have used BP guns rifles and revolvers to initiate a number of new shooters to the sport of shooting. Kids especially enjoy it. The big puff of smoke, loud bang and LACK of recoil brings smiles to their faces.

 

[dsayer]

The big puff of smoke, loud bang and LACK of recoil brings smiles to their faces.

Still brings a smile to my face, too. :hatsoff:

I like starting newbies on my Plains Pistol with a light load. It's impossible to shoot that without smiling.