NO Black Powder at my Bass Pro

[azmntman]

:shake: he is quite right

 

[smoothshooter]

Order several pounds and have it shipped to your house.

 

[smoothshooter]

If that is true, the Fire Marshal is an idiot.

 

[smoothshooter]

Sadly, true.
Interest in traditional black powder shooting is falling off drastically.
All our nice traditional flintlocks and percussion guns will be collecting dust 30 years from now anyway, and BP will be unobtainable.

 

[TJK]

Never has done any of us any good to gripe about this topic. It always the same. Just go online and order yourself up a case or a half case. Most places will even let you mix flavors. You'll sleep better with 12 cans of bp in under your bed.

 

[rodwha]

I must have missed the griping part. Seemed he was just stating what he's seen with modern muzzleloader shooters not being concerned with traditional powders.

I went to 3 different ranges in San Antonio (not a small town) for a few years and only once ran into another BP shooter (revolver) and he used Triple 7. I've yet to see anyone with a traditional muzzleloader.

I've had a few friends try my guns and only one was truly interested and it was in my muzzleloading rifle and not the cap n ball pistols which seems more typical. Goading him into buying his own...

 

[rodwha]

Oh, and a case or even a half of a case might be beyond many's spending limits. I have several hobbies and they all demand plenty of cash, and so I spend $100 on just a few cans at a time. Maybe that's not a big deal for you or some others but it is for many others. Brewing beer, smoking cigars, buying rye whiskey or scotch, or hunting and fishing seriously cuts into buying BP by the case, and some don't have BP shooting buddies. I have none so it's me by myself.

 

[Mean Gene]

I can relate to what your saying, it's a bit too much for me as well and like you none of my shooting friends are into traditional muzzleloading.

 

[FishDFly]

Join the San Antonio M/L's and you would have some folks to shoot with and a place to shoot.

 

[meanmike8665]

You might think about Sac Valley Muzzleloaders. We shoot 2nd Sunday of the month.PM me if you have questions.

Michael

 

[rodwha]

San Antonio is over 2 hours away for me now that I live NW of Austin.

I do miss having 3 ranges with one no more than 15 mins away and with excellent people to deal with (The Bullet Hole).

 

[mooman76]

Oh, and a case or even a half of a case might be beyond many's spending limits. I have several hobbies and they all demand plenty of cash, and so I spend $100 on just a few cans at a time. Maybe that's not a big deal for you or some others but it is for many others. Brewing beer, smoking cigars, buying rye whiskey or scotch, or hunting and fishing seriously cuts into buying BP by the case, and some don't have BP shooting buddies. I have none so it's me by myself.

Exactly! Some people seem to think throwing allot of money out to solve a problem is all needed. They seem to think everyone has lots of extra money sitting around.

 

[akapennypincher]

but with all the threats of Teorrism Black Powder is being watched closely by BATFE.

Is that a provable fact?
Please do not start rumors.
Personally, methinks bp would be a very low priority for them with all the more powerful, sophisticated, explosives that are available today.

Fact BATFE does monitor sales of explosives. Black Powder is classified as an explosive. The world we live in since 9/11/2001 is not the world I was born in the late 1940.

Bad people who do bad thing make it nessessary for the Govenment to try and stop bad thing from happening.

That is why the BATFE has inspector who make life miserable for both gun dealer, and the seller of black powder. If your records are not done by the book, and all the "I's" are not dotted, and all the "T's" are not crossed. The BATFE will shut down dealers.

I recall the day when you could order a rifle or hand gun from and on line merchant, and the mailman, or railway express would bring it to your home and drop off your package without any fuss.

 

[Kapow]

That's the pioneer spirit! Hope you don't smoke in bed!