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Preference poll: smoothbore or rifled?

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Do your prefer a smooth bore or a rifled bore?

  • Smoothbore

    Votes: 8 21.6%
  • Rifled bore

    Votes: 16 43.2%
  • Makes no difference

    Votes: 13 35.1%

  • Total voters
    37
  • Poll closed .
I recently got my first smoothbore, a Charleville repro, and I'm now leaning toward smoothbore. I'm not a hunter, and I'm not a competition target shooter, so accuracy isn't a big issue, and I found that my smoothbore Charleville was not only a whole lot of fun to shoot, but as compared to my rifled-bore muzzleloaders it's: 1) a whole lot easier to load (and a whole lot more flexible in with what and how to load, and 2) it's a whole lot easier to clean when I'm done shooting.

I'm currently assembling a Kibler .58 cal smoothbore Colonial, so that will give me some more input to which I prefer.
 
I have MM.. scope.

I do want a deer gun. iron sights..

I was thinking something smoothbore kinda.. TC .56?

Before they go up on price.
 
I’m a hunter first and foremost, so I get a lot more out of a rifled barrel. That said, I just started playing around with my Pedersoli shotgun and it has been a lot of fun. I guess they both have their uses.
 
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