My first muzzleloader was?

[omarick1948]

Just or the fun of it, what was your first muzzleloader and in what year did you get it?

I'll start! In 1962 I saw at a local gun shop, a
Brazilian muzzleloading smoothbore for $25.00. It was no more than a "pipe bomb", as it was very cheap built. Thin walled barrel about .40 caliber, full stocked with nailed on....yes! Nailed on butt plate, trigger guard and steel ramrod. I saved up my paper route money and bought it along with 100 musket caps. I never did more than snap a few caps on it...thank God I didn't have some lead balls and powder, but this "Puppy" was mine and I was very proud of it! I still have that gun and bring it out and show friends once in a while. Probably will always keep it for those early memories.

Rick

 

[2172]

Gosh, when I saw the title, I was going to talk about the .45 CVA Mountain rifle I still have, but when I read your post, I remembered that, in about 1969, Dixie G.W. offered a "kit" a 28 ga bbl that they'd found in a warehouse, an equally old metal ramrod, trigger guard and butt plate..a new wood stock,a lock with an old plate and a new hammer and a new simple zinc trigger. It cost $14.95. I put it together, and then, not knowing anything about cap sizes, took the nipple out to go to a gunshop and buy caps that would fit....came home, put the nipple back, crossed threads, broke the nipple off with a visegrip plyer, and then screwed it up further by trying to get the nipple out with a screw retriever. Finally took it to a local "antique" consignment shop and placed it with a 3x5 card that said, "fowling piece, guns such as this used by early settlers for same purpose as modern shotgun. Guaranteed NOT to fire"..and priced it at $25. It sold the first Sunday afternoon to some NYC tourists out for a drive in the country. Since the consignment operator got 40%, I made my original $14.95 back...It got me hooked though, and I was shooting a Mountain rifle within the year...Hank

 

[rabjr]

Not sure what this topic has to do with the Craftsman forum but mine would be a T/C Renegade bought in 1983.

 

[tom hargrove]

my first one was in 1969 and it was a c.v.a. ky rifle kit and have had a spot for them ever since. :thumbsup:

 

[Frank/Pa]

Thompson Center Hawken in 1976.

 

[Mike 56]

If you are including revolvers a 1851 CVA brass frame Colt 36cal cap and ball revolver i built 25 years ago. If you are talking frontloader a synthetic stock CVA Bobcat 50cal i bought for 50.00 new three years ago it is still the only BP rifle i own. This is going to sound crazy but i like that rifle. Maybe i just don't know any better. The only thing i know is that i own 30 rifles most of them are surplus. I might take a AK and a AR to the range one time and a Mosin Nagant and my M1 the next but i always bring my Muzzle loader. It is a pleasure reading this forum and learning from experienced black powder shooters.

Mike

 

[gmww]

A Cabela's Hawken .54 1:48" twist. About 15 years ago.

 

[brubincam]

I had one very similar to yours,got it at a pawn shop 1966,about 20 dollars,2 piece wood,don't remember the caliber but it was metric,got a mold from DIXIE,ME I shot it,was a piece of manure,didn't last too long,had a metal ramrod,,, :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: I'M STILL HERE[maybe not for long] :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: got 2 cheapo pistols from there also...what was in my mind/ :nono: :nono: :nono:

 

[tnlonghunter]

I guess "my" first one was a Charles Daly Hawken that looks like all the ones put out by Cabela's, CVA, etc. My dad picked it up in 2000 from someone at a church he preached for because he thought I'd like it since I was always a Davy Crockett nut. The bore was pitted and rusted to manure, and the sear broke after about 5 shots, but it was enough.

His first muzzleloader is the TN longrifle I shoot now because he never got into it until I built him one last year. It was the first one I ever shot and really the first one anyone in our family ever got.

 

[omarick1948]

Not sure what this topic has to do with the Craftsman forum but mine would be a T/C Renegade bought in 1983.

Sorry Swamp Rat! I didn't mean to throw anybody a curve, but thought it was a good topic of interest and not anymore out of line than some of the other topic's on this thread. :surrender:

 

[rabjr]

Nothing wrong with asking the question. :v

 

[Allan Gray]

CVA kentucky flint when I was 13.
My 2nd was the classic arms "duckfoot" pistol, the 3 barreled smoothbore thing.
Fired it once,packed full of bbs almost broke my wrist.

 

Mine was a Minute Man Flintlock kentucky rifle by Numrich Arms way back in 1976. It was a kit and I spruced it up some with brass tacks and rawhide wraps just like Ol' Bridger's Gill. My dad still has that rifle.

 

[Frank/Pa]

Cooner, That was my second rifle in 45 caliber flint. Made it from a kit, and it was a good shooter. Wish I still had it.

 

[krshade]

1962. Parris civil War 'replica' rifle musket. It fired cork balls powered by Mattel caps. A real 'caplock'. Had steel ramrod and a bayonet. Eventually had a uniform to go with it.

 

[Osprey]

.54 TC Renegade, used for $200, I think it was 1988-89ish, I know I was at college and got it at a small gun shop in the mountains of western MD. Killed a few deer with it, kid I take hunting killed his first deer with it just last week. Still love that gun, although it feels a bit heavy and clunky after building a nice flint longrifle...

 

[mingo]

Tennessee Mt Rifle direct from the hands of Turner Kirkland in the 80's.
I was a late starting flinter.
Love 'em.

 

[user 2647]

Mine was a fullstock planes rifle, 54 cal. 1 1/8 barrel with a twigg flintlock and brass furniture. built this in 1974 with parts bought from my brother in law and a friend of his. Wasn't all correct parts but I had a blast shooting it! :grin:

 

[54mountain]

mine was a DGW snake eyes derranger that my brother gave me for my birthday in 1979, Some A#$H#$% stole it at a news years party I held in 1984 Dang I miss that pistol, You could almost hit a door with it from across the room. :rotf:

 

[Poor Private]

My first Bp weapon was a .44 cal colt revolver (Italian job) that I traded a set of 4 Chrome Reverses from my 58 Chey for I think this was about "70". Fired it for a few years with some buddies, then later traded it for a Router for my workshop. Wish I still had it.