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Well here it goes....
My name is Jeremiah and I am 27 yrs old. I live in Jacksonville, AR and am in the Air Force. Some of my hobbies include.... Collecting and shooting all types of guns, working on cars, I dabble in electronic repair from time to time and have 2M certification. Enough of me and on to how I became a Muzzleloader enthusiast.
It all started when I used to hunt with my father when I was about 12-14 yrs old. I had borrowed a friends T/C Renegade and fell in love with it immediately. I never did kill anything up until 2 weeks ago age 27 now and with my own Renegade.
Fast forward about 10 years from those days. My former brother in law was going to pawn one of his muzzleloaders and I said well whatever they give you ill give you 5 dollars on top of it. Back from the pawn shop he comes with a frown on his face, "they will only give me 20 for it". I threw him 25 dollars and locked the piece in my safe where it sat untouched for 2 years.
I had orders overseas for 15 months so all my Guns went to my Dad for safe keeping. He dug the Muzzle loader out and cleaned it up for me and got the double trigger working. I come back from Guam and collect my arsenal from him and there it sat in my safe for another 3 years until 2 weeks ago.
My father gives me a call and asks if I wanted to go hunting with him this year and said that the primative hunt started this weekend. I said yes and asked him what all I needed. I rushed home to pull out my muzzleloader and quickly read the info stamped onto the barrel. Thompson Center Arms RENEGADE. I almost peed myself when I read the name. I quickly inspected the gun and found that the nipple was in pretty bad shape and the front site was bent. I was able to locate new nipples and bent the front blade back into its former straight position.
Off to oklahoma I go and met with my Dad at the hunting grounds. We set up and took a few shots with the old Renegade just to make sure she was on target and would fire. She fired beautifully with lovely puffs of smoke and to our amazement it was very accurate for the front blade being out of whack.
A couple days later we were sitting watching a field of Winter Wheat and once it was bright enough I saw him. A little buck that stood about 100 yrds out. I set up my Renegade on a shooting stick and was fumbling around pretty bad. The deer had no idea what was coming though. My father watched him actually look the other direction and was amazed that I hadnt spooked him. I got him lined up and took a deep breath. I pulled the set trigger and slowly exhaled. Squeezed the trigger and off my 240 gr T/C round went. He kicked and went a running. Made it about 10 yrds to the fence jumped it and never came back up.
We waited for a while and my Dad said screw this lets go check on him. We walk up and it was a perfectly executed shot other than the front shoulders were no good for meat. Went in the center of his front left shoulder and out the center of his right shoulder ripping his heart in half. This was my first deer and it was with my 25 dollar T/C Renegade. I am hooked now and have started collecting a few other Muzzleloaders since I have been home for 2 weeks.
I now own my T/C Renegade, a CVA Bobcat, and an older CVA Kentucky kit rifle. None of them are show stoppers but they are all in good shape for what I have into them. Total spent on the three is $105. I plan on attempting to convert the Bobcat into a pistol like my father did with his.
I am looking forward to all the info and knowledge I can find from this site along with possibly meeting up with some of you. Maybe make a purchase here and there also. Just want to say thank you to the owner of the site for providing us all with a great community to explore and share knowledge and tell our favorite stories of past Muzzleloading. Thanks, Jeremiah
My name is Jeremiah and I am 27 yrs old. I live in Jacksonville, AR and am in the Air Force. Some of my hobbies include.... Collecting and shooting all types of guns, working on cars, I dabble in electronic repair from time to time and have 2M certification. Enough of me and on to how I became a Muzzleloader enthusiast.
It all started when I used to hunt with my father when I was about 12-14 yrs old. I had borrowed a friends T/C Renegade and fell in love with it immediately. I never did kill anything up until 2 weeks ago age 27 now and with my own Renegade.
Fast forward about 10 years from those days. My former brother in law was going to pawn one of his muzzleloaders and I said well whatever they give you ill give you 5 dollars on top of it. Back from the pawn shop he comes with a frown on his face, "they will only give me 20 for it". I threw him 25 dollars and locked the piece in my safe where it sat untouched for 2 years.
I had orders overseas for 15 months so all my Guns went to my Dad for safe keeping. He dug the Muzzle loader out and cleaned it up for me and got the double trigger working. I come back from Guam and collect my arsenal from him and there it sat in my safe for another 3 years until 2 weeks ago.
My father gives me a call and asks if I wanted to go hunting with him this year and said that the primative hunt started this weekend. I said yes and asked him what all I needed. I rushed home to pull out my muzzleloader and quickly read the info stamped onto the barrel. Thompson Center Arms RENEGADE. I almost peed myself when I read the name. I quickly inspected the gun and found that the nipple was in pretty bad shape and the front site was bent. I was able to locate new nipples and bent the front blade back into its former straight position.
Off to oklahoma I go and met with my Dad at the hunting grounds. We set up and took a few shots with the old Renegade just to make sure she was on target and would fire. She fired beautifully with lovely puffs of smoke and to our amazement it was very accurate for the front blade being out of whack.
A couple days later we were sitting watching a field of Winter Wheat and once it was bright enough I saw him. A little buck that stood about 100 yrds out. I set up my Renegade on a shooting stick and was fumbling around pretty bad. The deer had no idea what was coming though. My father watched him actually look the other direction and was amazed that I hadnt spooked him. I got him lined up and took a deep breath. I pulled the set trigger and slowly exhaled. Squeezed the trigger and off my 240 gr T/C round went. He kicked and went a running. Made it about 10 yrds to the fence jumped it and never came back up.
We waited for a while and my Dad said screw this lets go check on him. We walk up and it was a perfectly executed shot other than the front shoulders were no good for meat. Went in the center of his front left shoulder and out the center of his right shoulder ripping his heart in half. This was my first deer and it was with my 25 dollar T/C Renegade. I am hooked now and have started collecting a few other Muzzleloaders since I have been home for 2 weeks.
I now own my T/C Renegade, a CVA Bobcat, and an older CVA Kentucky kit rifle. None of them are show stoppers but they are all in good shape for what I have into them. Total spent on the three is $105. I plan on attempting to convert the Bobcat into a pistol like my father did with his.
I am looking forward to all the info and knowledge I can find from this site along with possibly meeting up with some of you. Maybe make a purchase here and there also. Just want to say thank you to the owner of the site for providing us all with a great community to explore and share knowledge and tell our favorite stories of past Muzzleloading. Thanks, Jeremiah
