I spent 4 hours checking out the Knoxville TN gun show Saturday while wearing this sign (tastefully and frugally made from the side of a 24 pack of Coke Zero). ONE PERSON came up and talked with me about black powder and muzzleloading. There were over a thousand people there, no one was interested in muzzleloaders.
It’s getting pretty bad!
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But at the range, when you pull the trigger and that rolling boom echos off the berm and the cloud of BP smoke drifts across the lanes....well, that gets some attention from all those unmentionable shooters.
Muzzle57
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He who moves in after the one with the most toys dies wins
That's cheating!
Flint Striker
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If it helps anyone, Natchez has a discount code for free hazmat until midnight on 2/28. Looks like they have musket caps, but pretty thin otherwise.
A Man must be prepared for hard times…
We’ve had more time than the younger ones….
appalichian hunter
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Would that be considered a ghost muzzle loader,
64Springer
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GMLWould that be considered a ghost muzzle loader,
Oh yeah, and when the tacticool types gawk at my smoking musket I just smile and say- old school assault rifle, model 1862 any questions.
Johnny Tremain
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In some states YesWould that be considered a ghost muzzle loader,
They have to go thru an FFL for black powder stuff.
They are real afraid of holy black for some reason.
My Rice barrel has no numbers on it. The Rice logo is on the bottom flat, glassed into the wood.
By their definition it is a Casper.
50 cal is a dreaded word, they dont know the difference between a Ma Duce and a Hawkins 50 cal.
I don't really need anything. I'm just stating what I see happening. We are going to have to be more self reliant and make the things that we need instead of depending on companies that we use to rely on to supply us with them. Kind of like the times when our original guns were made in the 17 and 18 hundreds.
ernbar
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They have those specials often. A few weeks ago they were running it and ordered powder and large pistol primers. Not paying the hazmat fee helps.
ernbar
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I have been two a couple of huge gun shows lately having tons of vendors, but not a single muzzle loading item anywhere to be seen.
Mrg5
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It’s not that old guys collect so much stuff. They collect the same amount as anyone else. It’s just that they have been doing it a lot longer.
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We are having the same issues up here in canukastan. I thought it was our border control preventing ammunition from coming up from the US. Now that I’m hearing from you folks that begs the question, why the shortages?
I know, im one of them....SM
I attended one last Sunday, saw two very old revolvers, two flintlocks. Other than that all I saw was two tins of #10 Remington caps, which I grabbed. That vendor had no other bp stuff at all.I have been two a couple of huge gun shows lately having tons of vendors, but not a single muzzle loading item anywhere to be seen.
Mrg5
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So am I. I was recently talking to a somewhat younger friend about an estate sale we were going to. He jokingly remarked, “well you have a lot of great stuff. I hope I’m around for your estate sale”.
The sky is not falling.
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Something to think about, when the socialist guys ban imports of weapons from other countries (un-mentionable) wonder if the black powder weapons will be in effect compromised. It's coming. to the point that these folks realize they will never get all weapons so there cinching up the noose one step at a time. To restrict the numbers available. Examples are cap, powder availability for us. Then there are the shortages for ammo, ammo components and other things related to modern firearms. So, in a sense the sky is not falling especially if your head is in the sand and we just wander about thinking only about the hobby we peruse, not looking outside the box so to speak at the picture in a whole perspective.
