Ten or one

[user 49399]

These answers and comments are very interesting. I appreciate the response

 

[Eterry]

I was given a CVA Kentucky rifle kit for Christmas when I was 14. Then I needed a matching pistol which I made from a kit.
Then had to have a cap and ball revolver, first a 31, then a 36, then a 44.

Then college happened and I joined the small bore rifle team. I drifted away from black powder.

I tried to get drawn for black powder elk, so I bought a 58 Buffalo Hunter, then another 58 then another. A few more rifles joined the herd.

What self respecting black powder shooter doesn't have a shotgun? I bought a dbl 20 bore, then a 10, then a 12.

Somewhere along the way I built a 40 caliber left handed Early Lancaster from a block of wood, a Chambers lock and Coleraine barrel.

There's others, but like a kiss....one just won't do.

 

[52Bore]

I've never been to Friendship but enjoy being a member and learn much from the Magazine. I also buy the raffle tickets every year, not expecting to win, but the money goes to a good cause.

You must plan a trip - at least once!
With nearly 1000 registered shooters and countless others - it’s a fantastic venue.
Lots of great people, artist and everything ML.
There are still quite a few originals being shot on some ranges.

 

[MSW]

you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too many flintlocks

 

[mmb617]

You're gonna have to let me have two, one rifle and one pistol, then I think I'll be satisfied. That's where I'm at right now and don't have any overwhelming desire to acquire more.

I have multiple modern rifles and pistols and yet there's one rifle and one pistol that I shoot just about all the time while the others gather dust. I don't need to make that same mistake with the muzzleloaders.

 

[rchas]

All of them.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

Much rather have 1 excellent gun over 10 so-so guns. I already have 5 pretty good ones though.

 

[tenngun]

I like to play cowboys and Indians. So no one gun would fit my times. I can dress F&I, ARW and cr 1820s/30s

 

[megasupermagnum]

That depends on what people consider so-so.

I'd rather have 10 Thompson Center's, than 1 custom built rifle. I might be tempted to trade it all for 1 custom built sxs flintlock shotgun.

 

[BuffaloSoldier]

As the saying goes "two is one, one is none."

 

[andy52]

I've often thought about myself as a settler headed west and what one gun would I take with me. I always come to the same decision,
It would be a 12 ga SxS, buffalo aren't the brightest bulb in the closet and a 12 ga round ball would take one down, shot for grouse and buck and ball for injuns.

 

[tenngun]

If you told me I had to pack the Appalachian trail, or from New Mexico to Montana living off the land and able to hunt out of season I would grab my TFC

 

[ww321q]

How about a convenient place to shoot BP guns. I'm not sure if mine are accurate or not because of no place close by to go shooting

 

[oldhunter1954]

Just want to say Friendship trips are amazing! Your questions is hard. I have a smooth bore and a rifled flintlock. Sometimes I take both to the range.

 

[Cruzatte]

Here’s a fun question for you. Would you rather have ten muzzleloaders that you think are only so-so and don’t shoot very much or just one excellent muzzleloader that you want to shoot a lot?

This is just for fun but I think the answers will be interesting.

Have a good day.

Banjoman

I'd rather have the one excellent muzzleloader. For if I had ten indifferent ones, I'd still be shooting, in all likelihood, only one of those, the other nine gathering dust in the back of some closet. The other probability is that the ten indifferent muzzleloaders might become trading stock to get the one that I really want.

 

[sportster73hp]

To paraphrase Larry “only accurate guns are interesting the so-so ones are frustrating “
My vote is for one good one but i am past that now.

 

[Dale Lilly]

If you told me I had to pack the Appalachian trail, or from New Mexico to Montana living off the land and able to hunt out of season I would grab my TFC

What is a TFC?

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Only need 1 to get the job done.

 

[Eterry]

What is a TFC?

Tulle Fusil de Chasse....I think.
Or Texas Fried Chicken... lol

 

[tenngun]

Either or
Yes a Tulle fusil de chase