What do you hunt with your traditional muzzleloader?

[morehops52]

Traditional game

 

[Hawk54]

Deer.

 

[frankie]

I have enjoyed reading the recent threads about how long you have been hunting and age of hunters. I thought it would be interesting to see what folks hunt or have hunted with their traditional muzzleloaders. I didn’t see any recent threads on this topic.

Before I got seriously into traditional muzzleloaders, I hunted every type of critter in East Tennessee, but this thread is just about traditional muzzleloaders.

So, what do you hunt or have you hunted with a traditional muzzleloader? I’ll start. With a traditional muzzleloader I have only hunted turkeys, squirrels, rabbits, and deer. Nowadays I mostly hunt paper and cardboard critters.

This may be a little redundant. But it’s just for fun.

I only hunt steel targets.

 

[Bigpete]

Rabbits,foxes,feral goats,deer,crows,pigeons,hares....

 

[TarponStalker]

I have enjoyed reading the recent threads about how long you have been hunting and age of hunters. I thought it would be interesting to see what folks hunt or have hunted with their traditional muzzleloaders. I didn’t see any recent threads on this topic.

Before I got seriously into traditional muzzleloaders, I hunted every type of critter in East Tennessee, but this thread is just about traditional muzzleloaders.

So, what do you hunt or have you hunted with a traditional muzzleloader? I’ll start. With a traditional muzzleloader I have only hunted turkeys, squirrels, rabbits, and deer. Nowadays I mostly hunt paper and cardboard critters.

This may be a little redundant. But it’s just for fun.

Deer, hogs, and turkeys. I squirrel hunted years ago and I want to start doing that again.

 

[Rodd Boyer]

Coyote with a TC .50 percussion
Deer with .45 flintlock
Squires with .36 flintlock

 

[Col_Houston]

SW Louisiana
Make- circa 1853 10bore fowler, patched round ball. 50 yards.
Game- Deer and Turkey
Son - 20 bore flintlock fowler
Game - Squirrel, Turkey, Deer

 

[Rawhide67]

Pretty much just deer. Haven't seen a rabbit track or partidge track in a couple years. Too many coyotes.

 

[Jake2454]

deer squirrel and rabbit

 

[Slinginslugs]

🐿

 

[Doc]

78 and still at it.
Doc,

 

[3Setters]

Grouse, woodcock, and snowshoe hare. Possibly deer this coming year if i get my gun built in time.

 

[Ninering62]

I have enjoyed reading the recent threads about how long you have been hunting and age of hunters. I thought it would be interesting to see what folks hunt or have hunted with their traditional muzzleloaders. I didn’t see any recent threads on this topic.

Before I got seriously into traditional muzzleloaders, I hunted every type of critter in East Tennessee, but this thread is just about traditional muzzleloaders.

So, what do you hunt or have you hunted with a traditional muzzleloader? I’ll start. With a traditional muzzleloader I have only hunted turkeys, squirrels, rabbits, and deer. Nowadays I mostly hunt paper and cardboard critters.

This may be a little redundant. But it’s just for fun.

I like most started out with a TC Hawkins .50 around 35yrs ago. My father & one brother also started out with that gun. I shot 1 deer with it & sold both .50 PRB percussion ML’s I had & got into inlines. I haven’t owned another PRB shooter since & never will again, it’s just not my thing. I didn’t mess with another sidelock again until a few yrs ago when I got a TC Seneca bored to .400/.408 which I only shot sized 10mm pistol bullets out of. I took a cpl nice Osceola Turkeys with it. Then sold it bc I didn’t like the stock & it was too small for my body. I am now havin my TC High Plains Sporter ( which I love the stock & fit ) set up with another .40 barrel & a .410 shotgun barrel as my designated BP Turkey gun.
I have a ROA pistol that I intend to take a Turkey or two with & maybe a deer or hog with this yr. I have a Pedersoli 12ga SxS that I haven’t hunted with, but I’m hoping to be able to Dove, Quail, & Rabbit hunt with in the near future.
I just got a custom built .50 percussion with a 28” GM LRH 1:24 twist that I’ve set up for midrange ( 400-500yds ) benchrest shooting. I’ll never hunt with it, I primarily hunt with my inlines.
I only shoot & hunt with muzzleloaders these days, but nothing is what a “ traditionalist “ would be happy about.

 

[Ninering62]

View attachment 142393View attachment 14239478 and still at it.
Doc,

Nice pics

 

[J.Campbell63]

An Army brother invited me help get rid of wild hogs that were messing up his dads money down in Texas. I haven’t hunted animals since 2004 so I said sure but I’m gonna use ‘61 Springfield (repo) to make it fun. Some got away some didn’t. Nasty pulled pork tho’. Lotsa’ sauce was used. Next time I will use a 1863 contract rifle (repo) in .58 caliber also. He shoots 8/10 inches high at 50 yards but he rings the Evil Roy gong at 300 every time.
Back in the late ‘90s I did get a deer & a tree with an Nepal P53 Enfield. Same shot.
Old friend got me into this crap. He shot skeet with an Officers fusil. I didn’t even know what the hell that was. His kid would use a plastic manual thrower and he wasn’t bad at all with it. His kid not him. His shots cleared the foliage from his back yard and riddled everything within 75 yards with that Fusil with buckshot. Only safe place was behind him. He hit a few. And never a misfire.
Now until my buddy calls I’m hell on paper plates and the gongs at the range.

 

[Ninering62]

An Army brother invited me help get rid of wild hogs that were messing up his dads money down in Texas. I haven’t hunted animals since 2004 so I said sure but I’m gonna use ‘61 Springfield (repo) to make it fun. Some got away some didn’t. Nasty pulled pork tho’. Lotsa’ sauce was used. Next time I will use a 1863 contract rifle (repo) in .58 caliber also. He shoots 8/10 inches high at 50 yards but he rings the Evil Roy gong at 300 every time.
Back in the late ‘90s I did get a deer & a tree with an Nepal P53 Enfield. Same shot.
Old friend got me into this crap. He shot skeet with an Officers fusil. I didn’t even know what the hell that was. His kid would use a plastic manual thrower and he wasn’t bad at all with it. His kid not him. His shots cleared the foliage from his back yard and riddled everything within 75 yards with that Fusil with buckshot. Only safe place was behind him. He hit a few. And never a misfire.
Now until my buddy calls I’m hell on paper plates and the gongs at the range.

Awesome story & funny.

 

[Codger Craig Wilcox]

Started out with an original 1861 Springfield in 1961. Bought it for less than $50. Since then, ML's have been my only hunting guns. The only non-ML I have is my EDC Sig .380.
Love hunting feral hogs - taste great, and doing the environment a good deed. AND open season all year long.

 

[Bigpete]

SW Louisiana
Make- circa 1853 10bore fowler, patched round ball. 50 yards.
Game- Deer and Turkey
Son - 20 bore flintlock fowler
Game - Squirrel, Turkey, DeerView attachment 142376

I bet that 10 bore hits hard !

 

[Snydly]

Bought my first black powder gun in 1968. Have added to my collection ever since. I hunt squirrel, rabbit, coyote, prairie dog. snowshoe hare, carp,turkey, blue grouse, ruff grouse, pheasant, quail, ducks, huns, antelope, whitetail deer, mule deer, elk. Still looking for someone to take me goose hunting, hog hunting. Want a black bear with my flintlock. Have taken bear with my bow.

 

[rpatmuck]

Started out in 1971 and I am 78 now.I have hunted and taken most all the critters and foul in the south Texas area. I have hunted other states and Canada for elk, moose, mule deer, and black bear. I did not get to fill my tag on moose and now I am too old to go after them now. All my hunting was done with traditional muzzle loaders with round balls for rifles and a double barrel percussion shotgun for all the birds.I never felt I was at a disadvantage in any way by not hunting with scoped modern rifles.