Poll: What do you use your muzzleloader for?

[RMH]

I use them for both. Far more use at the range than in the field.

 

[Daveboone]

There's a great deal of truth in that.

Deer meat is several hundred dollars a pound after all the guns and the gear and the land lease to hunt on.

If it weren't for private property, I'd never hunt.

Too many mouth breathers roaming public lands.

I am always surprised to hear that. Land here in Upstate NY that used to be “crowded” is now empty. I have ten acres in the middle of 8000 acres of public, and I hunt the public without seeing anyone all season.

 

[Kmcmichael]

I use it to accompany me when visiting relatives at their deer camp. I let them shoot it at night and we film it.
I mainly perforate paper, vainly attempting to group the perforations together in the location of my choosing. On the rare occasion I achieve this, I brag profusely to everyone. I also fiddle with loads, sights etc. in the endeavor to manipulate the aforementioned perforations…as a source of frustration.
I also shoot the occasional deer.

 

[Rob M.]

Texas.

Ah shoot ...was gonna say come on over to hunt if ya want but ....thats a bit of a drive....darn it

 

[Capnball]

I use mine as a walking stick in the woods

I use mine for making sticks into tooth picks!

 

[Billywfe]

I use my rifle for hunting , shotgun for clays and hunting, cap and ball pistols for target, hunting and side arm in the woods.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

None of the above

I built my flinter for one purpose.
As an heirloom for my grandson.

It happened to work great for rondies and hunting, but thats just a by product.

 

[Appowner]

Therapy! I use mine for therapy. Have had a lot of medical issues the past 10 years. Still can't walk more than 1/2 mile. Muscles in process of rebuilding. Working on guns of all types is my therapy.

 

[BigAl52]

Making Steel ring the old fashion way

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Both and I will add, "showing off". I am rather pleased with the guns I've made and folks who are unfamiliar with muzzle loading are shocked and amazed to see how well they perform.

 

[APG]

I use my muzzleloaders to burn powder that makes smoke that irritates the shooters with their new fangeled smokeless guns at the range.

 

[dracer]

just plinking at targets and such

 

[longcruise]

I use my muzzleloaders to burn powder that makes smoke that irritates the shooters with their new fangeled smokeless guns at the range.

That's totally fair turnabout to their ear piercing recoil reducing thingys on the Muzzle!

 

[godutch]

These days I enjoy the shop time when building, looking at them on the wall which I do often, and occasionally even taking them for a run on the range on the back of the property. All my pals, who've watched them get built and seen them fired think they and I are the greatest thing since sliced bread. Not one of them would go near a traditional m/l for their own use. I think they just enjoy watching me suffer.

 

[Mogadishu Meanderer]

Target shooting 100% of the time, it just happen that those targets are made out of paper, steel, tin, meat and in the worst case scenario, scum!!!

 

[ADK Bigfoot]

75% shooting competitions or rendezvous, 25% hunting. Hunting includes turkeys, grouse, and deer. Maybe a bear this year! I also carry mine on hikes just because I like to. Especially if I am "dressed funny" as my friends call it.

ADK Bigfoot

 

[LANEY REECE]

Hunting and target shooting.

 

[Dale Lilly]

I'm old! I fondle them, admire them, reminisce and sniffle. Polecat

 

[ColonialRifleSmith]

I put a rubber tip on the muzzle and use it for a crutch. Semper Fi.

 

[Terry Lightle]

Hunting