Old shooter, New to Black Powder New Zealand

[SouthPaw]

Hi all

Coming from long range target shooting and high country hunting. Enjoying cartridge reloading for a while and have now started a collection of cap & ball reproduction pistols. 1851 Navy and 1847 Walker so far. Firearms licence and endorsement needed here but not too arduous. I’d be interested in a kit muzzle loading rifle (jeweller and gunsmith by trade) so I can be the first to bag a wallaby with black powder since 1897 here in NZ!

Cheers

 

[nit wit]

Welcome from Maine and good luck on your quest!
Nit Wit

 

[Dobegrant]

welcome from Arizona

 

[kelljp]

Welcome from East TN

 

[GregK]

Welcome from the Catskills of NY, USA

 

[oldwood]

Welcome from Pa.. USA

 

[Rifleman1776]

Welcome from Arkansas, USA. My son and his family lived in NZ for a while and loved the country and the people. I hear you have great hunting there. I can only dream about it.

 

[TFoley]

Kia ora from East Anglia!!!

 

[Eutycus]

Howdy and Welcome from Texas!

 

[Nobody85]

Sounds great! Welcome from Georgia

 

[toot]

Welcome.

 

[RB POWELL]

Hi all

Coming from long range target shooting and high country hunting. Enjoying cartridge reloading for a while and have now started a collection of cap & ball reproduction pistols. 1851 Navy and 1847 Walker so far. Firearms licence and endorsement needed here but not too arduous. I’d be interested in a kit muzzle loading rifle (jeweller and gunsmith by trade) so I can be the first to bag a wallaby with black powder since 1897 here in NZ!

Cheers

Welcome from East Texas.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Welcome from the part of New York State, USA that has mostly trees and few people.

 

[leadhoarder]

How easy or hard is it to get powder and caps down there?

 

[SouthPaw]

How easy or hard is it to get powder and caps down there?

Hit and miss, not too bad just now….expensive though. NZ$ is only worth US$0.50

https://www.reloaders.co.nz/shop/Reloading/Powder.html

 

[SouthPaw]

Welcome from the part of New York State, USA that has mostly trees and few people.

I like the sound of that!

 

[SouthPaw]

Howdy and Welcome from Texas!

Thank you (y’all) !

I worked just out of Fort Worth in 2000 for six months, loved it ️

 

[SouthPaw]

Kia ora from East Anglia!!!

Nice! Thanks.
my brother has just returned from a year in UK

 

[SouthPaw]

Sounds great! Welcome from Georgia

Thanks!…..I have a daughter named Georgia (mine is Dallas)

 

[SouthPaw]

Welcome from Arkansas, USA. My son and his family lived in NZ for a while and loved the country and the people. I hear you have great hunting there. I can only dream about it.

Thanks, it’s a paradise in theory……although everywhere has its problems. But at least we are thousands of miles from everybody else’s!